BANGKOK, APRIL 1 — Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha was admitted to Bangkok’s army-run Phramongkutklao Hospital today following increasingly cranky outbursts and fear his degenerating condition could leave him a big, colicky baby.
At a morning press briefing, doctors said that though it’s too soon to offer a diagnosis, the 67-year-old former coup leader’s increasingly juvenile and petulant behavior could be caused by a skin-thinning condition that’s been inflamed by criticism of his failure to deliver vaccines to the public, tacit support of massacre in Myanmar and increasingly violent response to protests at home.
“We’re all used to the banana-throwing, sock-sniffing eccentricity of Lueng Tuu, but recently, well, it’s become really embarrassing,” said a cabinet insider. “Spraying people with disinfectant when he doesn’t like their questions, getting red-faced over a woman’s legs … we look like some kind of banana republic led by a rube.”
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