'He's an embarrassment'
Ed Pilkington and Adam Gabbatt in New York
Thursday 4 May 2017 23.18 EDT
... On Thursday afternoon Trump made a phone call to Turnbull, who had flown with his wife Lucy 10,000 miles for the privilege, to say that he would be three hours late and would not be able to keep their 4pm midtown one-to-one appointment ...
The awkwardness of the call was surpassed only by the previous time the two national leaders spoke by phone a week after Trump entered the White House, when the fledgling president terminated the call 25 minutes into the planned one-hour conversation telling Turnbull that their dialogue, which had grown cantankerous over the question of immigration, had been “the worst call by far” ...
After Trump and Turnbull had delivered their Coral Sea speeches, the US president made a speedy getaway. It was in keeping with the edginess of his first homecoming since he took office that he did not head for Trump Tower, but turned the other direction, eastward, to New Jersey and his country home in Bedminster.
He plans to spend the weekend playing golf at the Trump National Golf Course ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/05/hes-an-embarrassment-hostile-welcome-for-trump-on-return-to-new-york
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My parents have been to Australia. But I don't much like flying and when I learned how long the flight was, I was pretty sure I'd never do it. And, of course, wouldn't be yet another international incident for him to be blatantly rude to official state guests?? 
