You can't make this up. How can you have such a dumb leader?
AUKUS is the biggest military alliance between Australia, UK and US, it is literally in the acronym. Australia has already laid down a $500M down payment of $3B that they are paying USA "to enhance their submarine building capability', in order for Australia to then buy several nuclear powered subs over the next two decades at many billion $.
The customer is paying you to improve your factories before buying from you.
Trump knows nothing about it when asked.
Then when it was explained to this moron, he just makes up an answer "oh, we will discuss it" (with Keir Starmer)...aides probably scrambling to get words for him to say.
Australia (under USA and Trump friend Scott Morrison) reneged on the deal with France to do this, forfeiting $5B down payment. Methinks it is better and opportune to walk back cap ibn hand, forfeit the $500M, and get the $5B back to let France continue