The transcripts from some of Trump’s bonkers phone calls with other world leaders last February have finally leaked. His call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was already plagued by rumors that Trump angrily hung up mid-call. According to the transcript, this is how the call ended:
The Post got transcripts of Trump's calls with Pena Nieto and Turnbull. This is how Turnbull call ends. https://t.co/adbPV2Rrh5 pic.twitter.com/nUIg07WYdi
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) August 3, 2017
And that isn’t remotely the oddest part. The whole transcript is amazing, and Twitter has been parsing it for the past day, coming up with numerous jokes and observations. As previously mentioned, people had fun with Trump groping for the term for dairy farmers and coming up with “local milk people.”
How good a person are you on a scale from Refugee to Works For The Local Milk People?
— Cyrus O’Merican (@CyrusOMerican) August 3, 2017
Why do I suspect that "local milk people" didn't include any chocolate milk people?
— I am Jack's deteriorating rule of law (@LampersMichael) August 3, 2017
But some of the funniest tweets came from people making fake transcripts that were barely more absurd than the real one:
Boy, Trump's conversation with the Prime Minister of Australia really went downhill pic.twitter.com/GT6ZkjR4o8
— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) August 3, 2017
The Trump phone call transcripts with Australia don't shed the best light on Donny, but I can feel the man trying and I appreciate it. pic.twitter.com/t0ig1wfBk3
— Justin Halpern (@justin_halpern) August 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/893152595920814080
Plenty of people pointed out how bad this makes Turnbull’s refugee policies look:
https://twitter.com/oz_f/status/893221841321340928
trump did a better critique of turnbull's refugee policy in one conversation than the labor party has in years
— descriptive display name that is way too long and (@mrgracemugabe) August 3, 2017
Trump: we don’t want the refugees they are probably bad
Turnbull: Actually? They are good. We keep them on a prison island nevertheless— Bec Shaw (@Brocklesnitch) August 3, 2017
Turnbull calls those on Manus/Nauru "economic refugees"
Trump asks why they're in "prison" & why don't we let them go
WHAT IS GOING ON
— Josh Butler (@JoshButler) August 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/jonkudelka/status/893270759556005892
The real transcript was a joke in and of itself:
[seinfeld music] so what's the deal with boats? pic.twitter.com/mrJgeDOrrT
— Nick Schadegg (@nickschadegg) August 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/893118796105482241
https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/893111392324026369
https://twitter.com/courtney_ro/status/893226093083111424
Trump wasn’t here to make friends.
https://twitter.com/jrhennessy/status/893225125159424000
this picture is getting so much use this year pic.twitter.com/akRw47b3ft
— David Mack (@davidmackau) August 3, 2017
And some people smelled a conspiracy.
My question is who leaked the transcripts? Crucial timing. Because whoever leaked it wants Turnbull gone and a new Australian PM in place
— Asher Wolf (@Asher_Wolf) August 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/893111127051251712
In other phone call-related news, jokes were also made about Trump’s call to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto:
https://twitter.com/jpbrammer/status/893121065957904385
And jokes were made about the adulatory call he said he had with the head of the Boy Scouts, which the Scouts have denied ever happened and the White House later admitted didn’t happen:
PROOF- photo of Trump on the phone with head of Boy Scouts. pic.twitter.com/Ikfmtr0Jhw
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) August 3, 2017
That explains everything.