The only five responses you need to Trump’s bizarre tweet about Turkey

Oonagh Keating. Updated October 8th, 2019

It wouldn’t be a normal week if Donald Trump didn’t have at least one meltdown via Twitter, and this week’s first such outburst was pretty special. He somehow managed to threaten to ruin a country’s economy, whilst indulging in some seriously deluded boasting. Here’s how he pulled that off.

As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2019

from Between Two Ferns GIFs via Gfycat

As is right and proper, his tweet received a ton of mockery, but these five were sublime examples we thought you shouldn’t miss.

Sure glad we're leaving the EU in order to make deals with a guy who'll threaten to obliterate a random country's economy because he's a bit bored on the shitter pic.twitter.com/FTWAiJggg5

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) October 7, 2019

I, in my great and unmatched wisdom… pic.twitter.com/sA0o5Flr7t

— Rob Dicken (@1970RobD) October 7, 2019

At this point, one wonders what could ever suggest that the man's Twitter account had been hacked…

(Perhaps the emergence of reasonable tweet, correctly punctuated?) https://t.co/OHhrnE2bu0

— Sam Harris (@SamHarrisOrg) October 7, 2019

exciting to be living in a george lucas first draft https://t.co/ReASxqgz60

— Lupus Haas (@Mobute) October 7, 2019

What are the odds that he is talking about an actual turkey?

— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) October 7, 2019

As good as they are, this comment from LBC presenter and best-selling author, James O’Brien, said all that needed to be said – in just one word.

Nurse! https://t.co/INFnzDxq54

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) October 7, 2019

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