Australia and the U.S. might be patching things up after Sunday's reportedly heated phone call, but Donald Trump's press secretary still cannot get Malcolm Turnbull's name right.

At a press conference in the White House, Sean Spicer again referred to the Prime Minister as 'Mr Trumble' when talking about the controversial refugee deal.

'They did have a very productive and engaging meeting. We have a tremendous amount of respect for the people of Australia, for Prime Minister Trumble [sic]... we are going to continue to work through this,' he said.

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White House press secretary Sean Spicer referred to Malcolm Turnbull as 'Mr Trumble' for the second day in a row at a press conference in Washington on Saturday about the refugee deal

'We have a tremendous amount of respect for the people of Australia, for Prime Minister Trumble,' he said

'We are going to honour the commitments that were made in same way meaning we are going to continue vet these people in accordance with the agreement that was made.'

Mr Spicer made another error saying White House aides Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon met with the 'Prime Minister' when it was actually ambassador Joe Hockey before he was embarrassingly corrected by reporters.

It was the second time is an many days Mr Spicer used the odd name to refer to Mr Turnbull, calling him 'Mr Trumble' several times on Friday.

'The President had a very cordial conversation with Prime Minister Trumble. They went through an extensive discussion of this deal,' he said on the first occasion.

It was the second time is an many days that Mr Spicer used the odd name to refer to Mr Turnbull, calling him 'Mr Trumble' several times on Friday (pictured)

'The President had a very cordial conversation with Prime Minister Trumble. They went through an extensive discussion of this deal,' he said on the first occasion

'The President is unbelievably disappointed in the previous administration's deal that was made, and how poorly it was crafted, and the threat to national security it put the United States on.'

'While he has respect for the Australian people, and respect for Prime Minister Trumble... the deal that was cut by the last administration is something he is extremely upset with.'

Mr Trump and Prime Minister Turnbull clashed over the deal in their first telephone call on Sunday, described as the president's worst call of the day 'by far'.

He complained he was 'going to get killed' politically and said Australia was trying to ship the U.S the 'next Boston bombers'.

Mr Trump later abruptly ended the call, which was supposed to last an hour, after just 25 minutes.

Mr Trump and Prime Minister Turnbull clashed over the deal in their first telephone call on Sunday, described as the president's worst call of the day 'by far'

Hours before the explosive report of the conversation broke on Thursday, he again vented his frustration with the deal on Twitter.

'Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!' he wrote.

He also reportedly fumed about the agreement to advisers soon after signing the executive order, saying 'I don't want these people'.

Australian and U.S. leaders have spent the days since the call was made public trying to solidify the deal and patch up frayed relations between the staunch allies.

Mr Turnbull said he wanted to keep the conversation private and described the call as 'frank' and 'forthright' but claimed it 'ended courteously'.

President Trump ranted about the deal the Obama administration struck with Canberra to take 1250 refugees being held on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island (pictured) and Nauru

On Thursday afternoon the newly-elected president took to Twitter to slam the Obama administration for making the 'dumb deal' to take on 'thousands of illegal immigrants'

Mr Trump admitted the call was 'tough' and he repeatedly grilled his opposite number on why the deal was struck and the U.S. had to take Australian refugees.

'I love Australia as a country, but we had a problem,' Trump said, explaining how President Obama agreed to resettle '1,000 illegal immigrants who were in prisons.'

He also said he was 'unbelievably disappointed' and 'extremely, extremely upset' by the deal, but slammed reports of the heated phone call.

'Thank you to the Prime Minister of Australia for telling the truth about our very civil conversation that FAKE NEWS media lied about,' Trump wrote in an early-morning tweet. 'Very nice.'

Dozens of U.S. and Australian politicians and experts have since weighed in to say while the report was embarrassing, the exchange wouldn't harm relations long term.







