US President Donald Trump has hit out at what he says is a "dumb deal" to take "illegal immigrants" from Australia.
The deal to take refugees from Manus Island and Nauru was brokered between the Federal Government and the US in the closing weeks of the Obama administration.
Mr Trump took to Twitter this afternoon to question the deal, which has been the subject of days of mixed messages from the White House.
The President's tweet — which incorrectly labels refugees "illegal immigrants" and cites "thousands" of people instead of 1,250 — came just hours after details of his conversation with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, which Mr Trump reportedly described as "the worst by far", were published by the Washington Post.
Source: Twitter
Mr Trump reportedly accused the Prime Minister of seeking to export the "next Boston bombers" to the US, and complained that the deal was going to kill him politically.
