President Trump boasted about his election victory, pressured his Mexican counterpart to remain quiet about a border wall and called New Hampshire a "drug-infested den" in a phone call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, according to a transcript of the conversation revealed on Thursday by The Washington Post.
The January 27 phone call with Peña Nieto came seven days after Trump entered office. In it, he focused mainly on issues of trade and immigration, with contentious moments coming in his insistence that Mexico will eventually pay for a wall along with US southern border. Peña Nieto has insisted publicly his country will not pay for the wall's construction.
"You cannot say that to the press," Trump said on the phone call.
Another transcript obtained by the Post reveals a tense January conversation with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in which Trump repeatedly scoffed at an Obama-era deal that called for the US to take in 1,250 of Australian refugees.
"This is going to kill me. I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country," Trump said, among other things.
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