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The New Yorker reports:
After President Trump gave Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the green light to invade northern Syria last weekend, thus unleashing chaos in the region, Trump wrote him a very strange letter, obtained by Fox Business’s Trish Regan.
The message’s theme – that Erdogan should show military restraint – was straightforward, but the prose style and phrasing, which includes the lines “Don’t be a tough guy. Be smart!” are so surpassingly weird in a high-level diplomatic context that many wondered if the note was authentic. It is.
The contents of President Trump’s letter to Turkey’s President Erdogan were just released. “Don’t be a fool,” Trump wrote. pic.twitter.com/zCHEeJfR2h
— CNBC (@CNBC) October 16, 2019
GASP
Trump literally trashes Erdogan in a letter that was supposed to be helping meditation efforts between SDF and Turkey.
“Don’t be a tough guy, don’t be a fool!”
Via @trish_regan pic.twitter.com/8ecgdCPfeY
— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) October 16, 2019
The prose style and phrasing in Trump’s letter to Erdoğan are so surpassingly weird in a high-level diplomatic context that many wondered if the note was authentic. It is https://t.co/MuWMa6yNO2
— Intelligencer (@intelligencer) October 16, 2019
Obviously White House leaked this letter for domestic consumption to show that Trump was tough on Erdogan.
And this is already a public scandal in Turkey amid Pence/Pompeo visit
— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) October 16, 2019
Is today April Fool’s day?
It has to be April Fool’s day because there is no way he sent that unprofessional, choppy, middle-schoolish text message with exclamation points to Erdogan on official WH letterhead.
Does anyone have a calendar??
— Denise Shearin (@DeniseShearin) October 16, 2019
This is a joke, right?
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 16, 2019
It’s from Trump, so yes it’s a joke.
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) October 16, 2019