An Australian politician stormed out of a press conference after being quizzed about his alleged dinner with Donald Trump.
Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate previously claimed to have dined with the US president and his wife,Melania,in February this year at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach,Florida.
ABC News Australia found that the White House later contradicted this claim and said Tate didn’t eat with the group.
Asked about his claims of dining with the President,Tate said: ‘I’ve already answered yes,and the matter’s private so I’m not going to elaborate much further than that.’
A journalist then asked how much the trip to Florida from Australia cost,to which Tate stormed off and said: ‘F*** off,yeah f*** off,I’ve had enough of that.’
The Trump Organisation said the dinner was ‘categorically false’ (Picture: Getty)
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Breaking News alerts the moment it happens.The Trump Organisation previously said: ‘Any suggestion that the president had dinner with Mayor Tate,or that he attended an event that was directly or indirectly connected to or associated with Mayor Tate or his event,is categorically false.’Tate’s constituency previously made headlines when plans for a Trump Tower to be built along the coast were scrapped because the brand was ‘too toxic’.Plans for the 91-storey tower,which would operate as a hotel,apartment building and retail building,would have been Australia’s tallest tower.But there was immense backlash from Australians,with more than 140,000 signing a petition to block the plans from going forward.David Young,CEO of Altus Property Group,told CNN: ‘Let’s just say that with the Iran war and everything else,the Trump brand was increasingly unpopular in Australia.’Young said the response,while ‘deeply unfair’,showed that the Trump name had become too controversial in Australia.But the Trump Organisation,which was behind the project,slammed the halting of the project.The Trump Organisation said Young’s comments about world events were a ‘ploy’ to distract from ‘his own failures’.But Tate said that the Trump Organisation was partly to blame,because they were planning to make more profit than the developer.
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