{"id":148213,"date":"2025-09-16T20:45:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148213\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:45:04","slug":"donald-trump-clashes-with-australian-abc-journalist-and-confirms-albanese-meeting-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148213\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump clashes with Australian ABC journalist and confirms Albanese meeting | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has berated an ABC journalist who was asking questions about the US president\u2019s personal business dealings, accusing him of \u201churting Australia\u201d ahead of crucial talks with prime minister Anthony Albanese<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump was answering questions on the White House lawn when he clashed with the ABC\u2019s Americas editor, John Lyons<\/a>, who said he was reporting for Four Corners.<\/p>\n

The exchange also appeared to include Trump\u2019s first confirmation he would meet with Albanese for their first face-to-face talks, coming as part of a visit to the UN general assembly next week.<\/p>\n

Lyons asked Trump how much wealthier he had become since returning to the Oval Office for his second term in January, noting he was regarded as the wealthiest man ever to occupy the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Trump said, explaining his children were responsible for the family business, the Trump Organisation.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut most of the deals that I\u2019ve made were made before,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is what I\u2019ve done for a life. I\u2019ve built buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n

He pointed to the site of a planned grand ballroom planned for the White House.<\/p>\n

Lyons then asked whether it was appropriate for US president to be conducting personal business while in office.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really not, my kids are running the business,\u201d Trump said before asking Lyons where he was from.<\/p>\n

Trump then accused Lyons of \u201churting Australia\u201d with the line of questioning.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my opinion, you are hurting Australia very much right now. And they want to get along with me.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, your leader is coming over to see me very soon. I\u2019m going to tell him about you. You said a very bad tone.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can set a nicer tone,\u201d Trump said, before telling Lyons: \u201cQuiet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albanese has been seeking a meeting with Trump <\/a>since the pair\u2019s first talks were abruptly cancelled at the G20 summit in Canada in June. His schedule for the upcoming visit to New York is yet to be confirmed but Australian officials are trying to lock in a time.<\/p>\n

This week Albanese said he would see Trump at the meeting of world leaders in New York, as well at upcoming international summits.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see each other in New York,\u201d the prime minister said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is hosting a reception on Tuesday night of next week. As well, we\u2019ll see each other at various forums that are taking place between now and the end of the year. It\u2019s summit season.\u201d<\/p>\n

The meeting is expected to covering a number of urgent issues in the bilateral relationship, including the Pentagon\u2019s review of the Aukus nuclear submarines agreement and Trump\u2019s demands that Australia spend more on defence.<\/p>\n

Trump and senior US officials have privately urged Australia to commit to spending as much as 3.5% of GDP on defence, a potential $30bn annual increase to the current defence spend of about $59bn.<\/p>\n

The Aukus review \u2013 which is being led by the undersecretary of defence and Aukus sceptic Elbridge Colby<\/a> \u2013 is due to be completed around November. Australia has already sent about $1.6bn to the US as part of the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has berated an ABC journalist who was asking questions about the US president\u2019s personal business dealings,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-148213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}