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Transcripts: Trump Told Mexican President Border Wall Is 'Least Important Thing'

Early on in his presidency, leaks showed an argumentative Trump on the phone with foreign leaders. New transcripts provide more details about how those phone calls went.
President Donald Trump is seen speaking on the phone with King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. / Mark Wilson / Getty Images

Way back at the start of the Trump presidency, the president created a stir with his first calls to leaders of U.S. allies. It was reported that he had angrily cut off a call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and in a call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, threatened to send military personnel to Mexico to deal with "bad hombres" (the Mexican government disputed this).

Now, new details of the conversations have emerged, via , and the excerpts printed by the show a president cajoling and heatedly arguing with the two foreign leaders. The transcripts do not

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