President Barack Obama was among several world leaders who listened to Duterte’s brief speech at the East Asia Summit in the Laotian capital of Vientiane.
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“I do not have any master except the Filipino people, nobody but nobody”.
Asked how he will explain the killings to Obama, he said: “You must be respectful. Son of a bitch, I will swear at you in that forum”, he said.
On a visit to Indonesia, Mr Duterte told the Filipino community there that he told Mr Obama: “President Obama, I’m President Duterte”. He meddled in the elections, giving statements here and there.So that Kerry, he came here and we had lunch and he left $33 million with me.
“You know, the Philippines is not a vassal state”. I looked at her face, son of a b***, she looks like a attractive American actress. “Why now we are talking about human rights”, an Indonesian delegate said.
The traditionally strong ties between the United States and the Philippines have been “strained by language from Philippine leaders” which is also creating “investor concern”, the statement said.
“You could see that there is an effort from both sides to patch things up”, Cayetano, Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, said.
Mr Duterte said he and Mr Joko would also join hands in fighting the “menace” of illegal drugs. This led the White House to cancel the scheduled meet between the two leaders.
US President Barack Obama hit back at Donald Trump on Thursday for criticising his foreign policy record, saying the Republican nominee was unfit to follow him into the Oval Office and the public should press him on his “outright wacky ideas”. “But I appreciate the apology of Ed Lingao”. Obama reportedly replied that his men would later on talk with Duterte.
But acid-tongued Duterte on Friday said the Philippine expression “putangina” should not be taken at face value, and it was “an ordinary expression [used] by everyone”.
He claimed that media mistranslated “p****g ina” to mean “son of a whore” when it actually means “son of a b*tch” or “son of a gun” or “f*ck you”.
“More people will be killed, plenty will be killed until the last pusher is out of the streets”, Duterte said on Monday.
“It’s just an expression, I don’t think it was directed to President Obama”, said Mr Panelo, according to the Philippines newspaper The Inquirer.
Duterte, accompanied by some of his cabinet officials, arrived aboard a chartered Philippine Airlines plane at the worldwide airport of his hometown in Davao City from Jakarta, Indonesia where he made a one-day state visit after attending the Asean summit in Vientiane, Laos.
The leader of the devoutly Catholic nation has reportedly called the Pope a “son of a whore” and called the United States ambassador to the Philippines a “gay ambassador, the son of a whore”.
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“Do not hesitate to attack me, criticize me, if I do wrong in my job”, Duterte told reporters, after being asked if he is angry at journalists for reports that caused tension between him and some foreign leaders. I don’t give a shit! Why?
