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Donald Trump kept on hold for “at least 90 seconds” in call with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar

Published 17:55 27 Jun 2017 BST

Updated 18:09 27 Jun 2017 BST

Conor Heneghan
Donald Trump kept on hold for “at least 90 seconds” in call with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar

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US President Donald Trump congratulated Varadkar on his “great victory”.

US President Donald Trump congratulated Leo Varadkar on a “great victory” in a brief phone conversation with Ireland’s new Taoiseach on Tuesday. The press pool at the White House were invited into the oval office to watch on as Trump exchanged pleasantries with the Fine Gael leader, with Mark Knoller of CBS claiming that Trump waited for at least 90 seconds for Varadkar to pick up the phone. https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/879734856846127104 During the conversation, some of which was recorded by RTÉ’s Washington Correspondent & US Bureau Chief Caitriona Perry, and can be seen here, Trump also talked about his connections with Irish people based in the US. "Congratulations on your great victory,” Trump said to the Taoiseach. “We have so many people from Ireland in this country. I know so many of them, I feel I know all of them. "But I just wanted to congratulate you; that was a great victory that you had."

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Donald Trump kept on hold for “at least 90 seconds” in call with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar