Mr. Turnbull declined to comment on the report, which also said Mr. Trump abruptly ended the expected hour-long conversation after 25 minutes as the Australian attempted to steer the conversation to other topics.
“It’s better that these things these conversations are conducted candidly, frankly, privately,” Mr. Turnbull told reporters. Later, however, he denied during an interview with Sydney radio station 2GB that Mr. Trump had hung up on him, saying the conversation had ended “courteously.”
Mr. Turnbull told reporters the strength of the relationship between the two nations was evident in that Mr. Trump had agreed to honour the deal to resettle refugees from among around 1,600 asylum seekers, most of whom are on island camps on the Pacific nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
