Trump hangs up on Australia and kills for the first time
BRUCE'S LIST: Trump’s bad calls
The weekend was not kind to Donald Trump. First, he supposedly hung up on a close US ally; then he rashly issued his first military order, which led to civilian deaths
Bruce’s List: A guide to informed reads. Donald Trump, many critics now argue, is staging a kind of coup d’état in the US. He is turning over everything in his way, locally and internationally. Details have just begun to emerge of a telephone call Trump made to Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull on Sunday night (Australian time) that some say ended with Trump hanging up halfway through what should have been a pleasant call with one of the US’s closest allies.With the smirking, extremist figure of Steve Bannon at his side virtually all the working day as his most powerful advisor, Trump won’t worry who he upsets. But if he can pick a fight with Australia or Mexico, you shudder to think of what he’ll do with the Russians and the Chinese, particularly in the South China Sea. Sunday wasn’t good to Trump. In addition to Turnbull annoying him, he also appears to have rashly ordered a raid on a base of an Al Qaeda offshoot in Yemen — his first military order as commander in chief —...
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