Perhaps Anthony Albanese was experiencing a little jet lag.

Or maybe the incessant scream of sirens rising from the New York streets had shaken him from his slumber.

For whatever reason, the Australian Prime Minister found himself wide awake in his Manhattan hotel room at 3am on Wednesday, scrolling through his camera roll and posting photos to Instagram.

Well, one photo really. For him, an important one.

“Good to chat with President Donald Trump at the USA welcome reception for world leaders attending the United Nations General Assembly,” the Prime Minister wrote.

Phones in the travelling media’s nearby hotel instantly began pinging with news that Anthony Albanese had posted conclusive — if a little visually confronting — evidence of his first personal encounter with the US President

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