US President Donald Trump has indicated he will meet Prime Minister Anthony Albanese face-to-face very soon, after a blow-up with an Australian reporter.

"Your leader is coming over to see me very soon," Mr Trump told the ABC reporter while speaking to journalists as he left the White House en route to the United Kingdom.

Mr Trump did not mention when he would meet Mr Albanese.

The prime minister is preparing to travel to New York in the coming days for the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, where a face-to-face with Mr Trump on the sidelines is a possibility.

Mr Trump's comments came after he objected to questions being asked by the ABC reporter about whether it was appropriate for a US president to be "engaged in so much business activity" while in office, saying hi

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