When Donald Trump "leaked" his Oct. 9 letter to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on KoreaWednesday, he undoubtedly thought it made him seem tough. What actually happened is that it was so ridiculous that nobody who read it believed it was real at first.
Between the fifth-grade vocabulary, the overuse of exclamation marks, and the kind of generally belligerent but ineffective attempts at being intimidating you get when you cheap out on your hired goons, it was understandably hard to believe this was Sharpie-scrawled on the actual Resolute Desk, let alone allowed out of the building to be delivered to another world leader with whom the US is currently embroiled in a serious military and diplomatic crisis.
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Naturally, once its veracity was confirmed and everyone had done their best to come to terms with the latest new low, they coped with memes.
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And of course, some people put in a little extra effort, and our decayed discourse — and fried brains — are better for it.
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When all of this is over, I can't wait for that last one to win all the Tonys.
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