Australian PM parodies Trump in audio
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AUSTRALIA’S prime minister has taken a comical swipe at Donald Trump, mimicking his mannerisms and making reference to the Russia scandal, in comments that were intended as “affectionately light-hearted.”
In a leaked audio recording that comes just months after a tetchy phone call between the two leaders, Malcolm Turnbull is heard making fun of the United States president’s idiosyncratic speaking style.
“The Donald and I, we are winning and winning in the polls,” Turnbull said in a closed event for journalists in Canberra on Wednesday. “We are winning so much. We are winning like we have never won before.
“We are. We are. Not the fake polls. Not the fake polls. They’re the ones we are not winning in,” he said to laughs from the audience at the Mid-Winter Ball, where politicians and Canberra journalists let their hair down.
“We are winning in the real polls. You know, the online polls. They are so easy to win.”
Typically, the event is off-the-record, meaning journalists would not report on what was said, but a recording was leaked to the political editor at commercial broadcaster Channel Nine, who did not attend the soiree and decided to report it.
Turnbull played down the speech late yesterday, saying that he was the butt of the jokes rather than Trump.
“My speech was light-hearted, affectionately light-hearted,” he told Melbourne’s 3AW radio.
Last month, Turnbull met Trump in New York to mend fences, after the bad-tempered call early in his White House tenure. Trump reportedly exploded and cut short the conversation when he was told about a Barack Obama-era deal to move refugees from Australia to the US.
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