Trump Issues Warning on Syria: ‘I Will Totally Destroy and Obliterate the Economy of Turkey’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses people demonstrating against the failed military coup attempt in Turkey, via video conferencing at the Turkish Presidency in Ankara, Turkey on July 24, 2016; President Donald Trump attends a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Feb. 7, 2017. (Yasin Bulbul/AFP/Getty Images;

After announcing a troop pullback in Syria, President Donald Trump on Oct. 7 warned that if Turkey does anything untoward, he will “totally destroy and obliterate the economy of Turkey.”

“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!),” Trump wrote on Twitter.