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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, became a headline generating machine on Wednesday. And all because of his decision to withdraw the US from Syria. Throughout the day, Trump lashed out at everything and everyone: the opposition, the Kurds, and even his former secretary of defense, Jim Mattis. And he concluded the day with a surreal letter to the ruco president, Recep Tayyiop Erdogan, to whom he said: "Don't be a tough guy. Don't be silly!" And it ended with a "I'll call you later".

Trump has declared that the Kurds of Syria, "are not saints, were on our side, but they are not saints" and, in relation to the incursion of Turkey in northeastern Syria, that both countries "do want to fight for their territory , they can do it, they have been doing it for hundreds of years, all that is a mess. "

In that hypothetical war, "Syria can have some help from Russia, and it is fine that it is so," according to Trump, who made those claims during the visit of Italian President Sergio Matarella to the White House. The American president added: "There is a lot of sand, there you have a lot of sand, to play with it." Trump also added that "it was assumed that we were going to be there [in Syria] for 30 days, and we've been ten years," a doubly false statement.

On the one hand, when Trump sent ground combat troops to Syria he never said they would be there for 30 days. On the other, the first American soldiers of the Special Forces, dedicated to persecuting the Islamic State and the Al-Nusra Front, linked to Al-Qaeda arrived in 2015, under the orders of Barack Obama. In March 2017, Trump sent 400 more military from Earth, accompanied by artillery and mechanized media, which soon increased to reach 1,000 troops that the US has had in the country until last week. The 10 years, so, do not go anywhere.

The spectacular statements of the US president came just the day when the House of Representatives, in an unusual bipartisan exercise, passed a resolution condemning Trump's decision to leave the Kurds of Syria and withdraw US troops from that country.

The resolution declares that the withdrawal favors the enemies of the United States - Russia, Iran, and the Syrian Government - and calls on Turkey to stop that country from immediately stopping its offensive against the Kurds. The fact that more than two thirds of House Republicans voted in favor of the proposal is a blow to Trump, who has a tight grip on the party, although the sentence has only symbolic value.

Shortly after the vote, a meeting of the president with the leaders of the Legislature in the White House ended up as the Rosary of the Aurora, with Trump experiencing what the Democrats called "a nervous breakdown" in which he called the president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, "third policy", something that has been confirmed by the White House. The reason for Trump's attacks on Pelosi seems to be due both to the House of Representatives' investigation into his actions in Ukraine than to the situation in Syria.

The day of the president did not end there, who seemed willing to burst by overexertion the keyboards of the press computers accredited in the White House. At the end of the day, the letter Trump had sent to his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayipp Erdogan, was made public asking him to suspend the offensive in Syria that, paradoxically, the US had blessed just a week ago. "Let's make a good deal!", The text started, which concluded with a "Don't be a tough guy! Don't be silly!" Trump's last sentence to Erdoghan, in the purest style of two colleagues, said it all: "I'll call you later."

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