Hillary Clinton takes a dig at Trump with parody Kennedy letter

The parody letter is written in the same manner as Trump's letter to Turkey

Hillary Clinton takes a dig at trump with parody Kennedy letter The parody letter Hillary Clinton (right) posted on social media | via Twitter; AFP

Hillary Clinton on Sunday posted a parody letter on Twitter that clearly poked fun at US President Donald Trump's letter warning Turkey over its invasion of Syria. The parody letter supposedly sent by John F. Kennedy to Russia's then leader Nikita Khrushchev during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis is written in the style of Trump's letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“Don't be a dick, ok? Get your missiles out of Cuba,” starts the letter pretending to be from president Kennedy.

“Everybody will say 'Yay! Khrushchev! You're the best!' But if you don't everybody will be like 'what an asshole' and call your garbage country 'The Soviet Bunion'.”

Clinton joked that the letter had been “found in the archives”.

Trump, in his letter which people thought was fake, warned that the US would Turkey's economy if its invasion of Syria went too far. The White Hopuse later verified that the US president's letter was in fact real.

The US president's decision to pull troops out of Syria prompted Turkey to launch cross-border attack against Kurdish forces.

“You don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don't want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy―and I will,” Trump had written in the letter dated October 9.

“Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a fool. I will call you later,” read Trump's letter to Erdogan. The parody letter from Kennedy to Khrushchev reads: “You're really busting my nuts here. Give you a jingle later.” It was signed as “Hugs, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.”

In the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy and Khrushchev faced off in a moment of high diplomatic tension that threatened to tip the world into nuclear war. The US, after detecting Soviet missile installations in Cuba off the Florida coast, imposed a blockade of the island on Kennedy's order. Soviet ships with nuclear missiles heading for Cuba turned back at the last minute after a secret agreement with Washington.

(With inputs from agencies)