It’s the season to be jolly, but President Rodrigo Duterte often speaks like he sat on a pine cone whenever people question his moves.
“During his speech at the Convergence of Nanay Volunteers as Community Drug Watch in Pampanga, Duterte once again slammed the US, which has been critical of his brutal campaign against illegal drugs,” reports ABS-CBN News Online.
The US has expressed alarm over the alleged lack of due process in the arrest of so-called “drug suspects.”
As such, Duterte declared, “Ang problema kasi sa puti, itong Amerikanong ulol.. [for] every five Americans kasi, ang tatlo diyan idyoto, dalawa lang ang tama ang utak.”
(“The problem with these white people, these American blockheads, is that three out of five of them are idiots, and only two are in their right minds.”)
He added, “Tumahimik kayong mga Amerikano kayo.”
(“You Americans should just shut up.”)
Our advice: Americans shouldn’t take this personally as Duterte has cussed everyone who gets in his way. As his people would say, “That’s just his personality. That’s just his style.”
In fact, it may be recalled that Presidential Communications Office (PCO) chief Martin Andanar said, “We don’t take all the President’s statements literally, but we take his statements seriously.”
