Trump roasted for Turkey’s snub of Mike Pence: ‘Total humiliation of the USA’

Trump roasted for Turkey’s snub of Mike Pence: ‘Total humiliation of the USA’
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October 16, 2019Trump

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday declared that he would not meet with American Vice President Mike Pence, who had traveled to the Turkish capital of Ankara to discuss a potential ceasefire in northern Syria.

Specifically, the Turkish leader insisted that he would only meet President Donald Trump himself to discuss any matters related to his country’s invasion of Syria.

“When Trump comes here, I’ll be talking,” Erdoğan told Sky News.

Erdoğan’s snub of the vice president drew hackles all across the internet, and Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall went so far as to describe it as a “total humiliation of the USA.”

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