PM’s pain as Trump skit leaked

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Tickets are $10. MALCOLM Turnbull has laughed off leaked footage of him mimicking Donald Trump, insisting politics is a stressful business and “we’ve got to lighten up”.

The footage and audio, released by veteran political journalist Laurie Oakes, was taken during Mr Turnbull’s off-therecord address to the press gallery’s annual Midwinter Ball in Parliament House.

The Prime Minister was disappointed the material had found its way into the public domain, but took the leak in his stride.

“I guess what that means is next year at the Midwinter Ball I will read selected passages from Budget paper No.2,” he told 3AW yesterday.

He criticised Oakes for defying standard practice and releasing the footage. During Wednesday night’s speech, Mr Turnbull made fun of his meeting with the US president in New York in May.

“It was beautiful. It was the most beautiful puttingme-at-ease ever,” he joked. The Prime Minister even does a Trump impersonation.

“The Donald and I, we are winning and winning in the polls. We are winning so much, we are winning, we are winning like we have never won before,” he says.