“Outrageous becomes normalized and people start thinking we should begin grading on a curve”, he said. “I can’t say how long they met”, Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay, travelling with Duterte, told reporters shortly afterwards.
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Throughout the campaign, Mr Obama has repeatedly denounced Mr Trump and deemed him “unfit” to serve as commander in chief, arguing that he’s pulling the Republican Party in a unsafe and unprecedented direction. “We asked for help from President Duterte to resolve the case as soon as possible”, President Jokowi said during a meeting with President Duterte at the State Palace in Jakarta onFriday, September 9, 2016.
Obama leaves office in January.
“I am not ready to concede”, Obama said, adding that his administration was making progress in reducing the prison’s population.
President Obama repeated his argument that Donald Trump is not qualified to be president.
Duterte, accompanied by some of his cabinet officials, arrived aboard a chartered Philippine Airlines plane at the global 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 US leader s remarks came after Duterte had given a fiery address to leaders of the 18-nation East Asia group, including Obama, which descended into a tirade about US military killings in the Philippines when it was an American colony between 1898 and 1946.
Mr Obama shrugged off the comments, saying he didn’t take it personally and confirmed he shook Mr Duterte’s hands. White House aides said later that the two might bump into each other in the halls at the ASEAN summit instead, a bit of choreographed diplomatic theater that lowers the stakes for a possibly fraught encounter.
Duterte and Obama were due to hold talks on Tuesday but the White House canceled the meeting after Duterte’s expletive-laden tirade against the United States and Obama on Monday before leaving for Vientiane.
Obama and Duterte spoke briefly in a holding room at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit before attending a gala dinner for the conference, Daily News quoted Philippine officials as saying.
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He cited TV5’s Ed Lingao’s apology as proof that the media made a mistake in claiming that he called Obama a son of a whore.
