Donald J. Trump was proud of his grammar school level letter to Erdogan.

[MineralMan]

So proud that he passed out copies at his disastrous meeting yesterday. Clearly, he thinks it was a "good" letter. A "perfect" letter. A "tremendous" letter.

He is woefully incorrect in his assessment of it. It is not, in any way, a model letter for correspondence between two heads of state. It is not a letter that should ever have been sent to another head of state. It is a letter that anyone with any sense of statecraft would have deleted immediately to avoid it ever being seen by anyone.

Trump says, "Let's make a deal." Trump advised, "Don't be a fool."

Erdogan crumpled it into a ball and tossed into his trash can, according to reports. He treated it as it deserved to be treated - a childish, petulant letter from someone who has no respect for anyone but himself.

That letter is demonstrative of Trump's palpable incompetence and arrogance. Neither quality is desirable in a President of what used to be the most powerful nation on the planet.

That letter should be an impeachable offense.

That letter should be the last straw.

[dalton99a]

1. And Republicans nominated him to be president

[Newest Reality]

2. Well,

At least we are getting an object lesson on the Dunning-Kruger effect in all its glory.

The old saying, pride goeth before a fall, comes to mind. I take heart that arrogance + imbecile will contribute to his downfall. This is not the usual situation where he can practice his manipulation in a tower as the only boss.

That works for us. If he did not have those glaring flaws, but the same purpose and intent, we would be far worse off. Hopefully, the cause and effect will finally catch up with him this time and dump a heap of good old "karma" in his lap. Nothing lasts forever. And, as far as consistency goes, well, show me something or someone who is completely consistent. A kick in his A-Heel will be justly deserved.

May he go down in infamy.

[tanyev]

3. It's as if his mommy proudly displayed all his siblings school work, but not his

and now the entire world has to pay for it.

[MineralMan]

4. Yes. The letter dramatically displays Trump's true abilities

to communicate. That is the best he can do. Why is such a person in the White House?

[Johnny2X2X]

5. FOX News

Even FOX is reporting that Erdogan crumpled it up and threw it away. Although they didn't comment one way or another on the letter, they just reported it while pointing out how great Trump has been.

I just don't know how anyone could read that letter and think the author of it should be leading anything at all much less the Free World.

[stopbush]

6. And yet, the MAGATs will weep tears of joy for how "decisive," the letter was.

No big fancy words or ideas. Straight to the point, you know. tRump = leader, Erdogan = The Devil! Hey, he worked a Biblical reference in! That’s worth at least 1,000 Christian points!

[MineralMan]

7. Yes, well, then, they're morons as well.

[stopbush]

8. Er, the word is spelled MORANS.

Get it right. MAGA!!11!

😇

[durablend]

11. No, actually the correct term is

"DEPLORABLES"

Hillary was *absolutely* right.

[durablend]

10. Yup

And how he "pwnd that dam Pelosi"

[malaise]

9. By the way he did not call Speaker Pelosi a third rate politician - it was way worse

He called her a third grade politician - whatever the fuck that is

[2naSalit]

13. Obviously he was projecting.

Sadly, as we see every day, he is the third grade politician. And if that was the worst thing he could fling at her...

[malaise]

15. +1,000

the truth

[TheBlackAdder]

22. He probably got his ass kicked by a girl running for class president, then his dad kicked his ass.

.

It's probably still haunting him to this day

.

[malaise]

23. Don't rule that out

[kskiska]

12. Who is the secretary who had to type that drivel?

If that was the polished version, imagine what the original draft looked like.

[bullwinkle428]

14. Maybe Melanoma can put it on the refrigerator with a "BE BEST" gold star!

[Wounded Bear]

16. He's like a Valley Girl...

[MineralMan]

19. Duh...

[ooky]

17. I'm trying to think of the last time a POTUS dealt with a crisis situation by writing a

sternly worded letter to the leader of another country and then passed around copies that the public could see it. I just can't seem to place it. 🤔

What if JFK had dealt with the Cuban missile crisis this way?

He is not just unfit. He is SO unfit.

[Brother Buzz]

18. Writing at a grammar school level is subjective

In all fairness, that letter was a splendid example of high school level satire writing. The icing on the cake would have been dating the letter the 1st of April.

[bagimin]

20. Not to degrade children but the letter

was childish in the worst sense of the word.Another embarrassment for the U.S. electorate.

[SWBTATTReg]

21. This is a child, or worse than a child's behavior, looking for approval. What a moron. It's too...

bad that Erdogan didn't record when he crumpled the 'perfect' letter into a ball and tossed it into a trash can. He could have then sent a recording of it back to rump...the ultimate insult. Oh well, perhaps word of this act still got back to rump, who, I suspect by now, will want to go to war w/ one of our NATO allies because they insulted him. Every republican senator needs to have the competence of this rump act thrown up into their faces and then prompted for a response...we've already know what they are going to do, run and hide, as usual.

[eppur_se_muova]

24. That was mob-level writing.

The mob has only a few ideas it needs to communicate, and none of them with much subtlety.

[Collimator]

25. A former supervisor told me . . .

. . . That she was greatly impressed with a resignation letter that I had written. She even praised it to the other supervisors in our department.

I would be so happy to use my special skill to assist Trump if he needs such a letter written.

[jayfish]

26. Graded On A Curve...

that shit is dissertation level.

[Garrett78]

27. The exclamation marks and "...unless good things happen" line...

...makes it abundantly clear that Trump is essentially a 3rd grader. Later, he did the "I know you are but what am I" routine at Pelosi.

It's all so surreal.

[lonely bird]

28. "Let's make a deal"?

Hey, Donnie?

This isn't some building inspector that you can bribe or bully.

There really are no more insults that can be used for this clown.

Impeach, convict, remove from office, indict, try, convict and send him to prison.

[ThoughtCriminal]

29. Maybe it sounded better in the original Russian?

And then he ran it through Google Translate to Ukranian then Ukranian to Turkish and finally Turkish to English.

[smirkymonkey]

30. He is such a joke!

What an embarrassment. Doesn't he realize that every leader in the world regards him as a fool and someone who is easily manipulated? The decent ones also see him as a danger to democracy everywhere and want him stopped just as much as we do. The evil ones are looking to get as much out of him as they can before he implodes.

[SaulofTucson]

31. That letter must have passed through several hands

before being sent. Apparently his staff is so cowed that no one, assuming they knew better, had the stones to suggest that he reconsider his wording. (Unless someone did ask, & Trump threw an ashtray at her or him.)

[dchill]

32. It was a beautiful letter, the likes of which...