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TORONTO -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mocking U.S. President Donald Trumpâs letter to Turkeyâs president.
On Sunday, with the caption âfound in the archives,â she tweeted a fake letter which then-U.S. president John F. Kennedy wrote to then-Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s.
The former Democratic presidential nomineeâs parody letter opened with: âDear Premier Khrushchev, donât be a dick, OK? Get your missiles out of Cuba.â
Everybody will say, âyay! Khrushchev! Youâre the best! But if you donât, everybody will be like âwhat an assholeâ and call your garbage country âThe Soviet Bunion,ââ it goes on to read. âYouâre really busting my nuts here.â
for the parody letter â Oct. 16, 1962 â makes it appear to have been written on the day that missiles capable of reaching U.S. soil were discovered in Cuba.
Clinton's letter is almost a direct copy of one shown during a monologue earlier this week by late night host Jimmy Kimmel -- but with one difference. While Kimmel's version was censored, Clinton's is not.
The strange way the parody letter was written was clearly no coincidence, as it echoes the tone of the widely-panned letter Trump sent to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over his decision to invade Syria earlier this month. When the Oct. 9 letter was made public, Trump's unconventional approach to diplomacy was evident throughout.
In Trumpâs letter, the president told Turkeyâs leader, âdonât be a tough guy. Donât be a fool!â
He also added "don't let the world downâ before mentioning that the Kurds were willing to negotiate and "make concessions that they never would have made in the past."
The effectiveness of Trumpâs letter is arguably in question as âTurkish presidential sourcesâ told the BBC that Erdogan received the letter and âthoroughly rejected it and put it in the bin.â
At the time of publication, Trump had not responded to the parody letter.