Trump sends badly written letter to president of Turkey; letter thrown in trash

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Last week, since Donald Trump proceeded U.S. troops from northern Syria, clearing the way for a Turkish army offensive against our Kurdish allies, the American president achieved to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, urging him to show some restraint. In and of itself, barely seems noteworthy.

What was phenomenal, but was the Republican hauled his worries .

Unsurprisingly, following the correspondence has been accessed from Fox Business's Trish Regan yesterday, even over several journalists, such as my coworkers at MSNBC, achieved into the White House to be certain that the letter was real. Officials confirmed its validity.

With this in mind, let us unpack what created the correspondence so extraordinary, since the record told us a little bit.

As an instance, while composed correspondence between American presidents and international heads of state will be diplomatic and formal, Donald Trump has the writing abilities of an ill-tempered tween. We need to probably take solace from the fact that his missive was not scribbled in crayon.

What is more, the Republican reportedly bragged regarding the letter in a meeting with congressional leaders yesterday day, indicating the flow of this correspondence was a willful White House program, and further indicating that Trump does not have any clue how embarrassing the record is.

But if we set aside these pertinent details, it is Erdogan's answer to the correspondence which matters most. On Oct. 6, Trump told Erdogan he'd move U.S. troops from their way, clearing the way for Turkey's offensive from our allies. On Oct. 9, Trump delivered his counterpart a badly written letter, warning him to not seem like"the devil,""a tough guy," and"a fool."

An individual need not wonder if Erdogan discovered any of the intimidating: the Turkish president dismissed Trump's letter, allegedly throwing it at the garbage, and found a brutal military offensive anyhow.

Trump routinely cares about just how much respect he orders on the global stage. We are sometimes reminded exactly how misguided those boasts are.

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