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| Rodrigo Duterte Calls U.S. Ambassador ‘Annoying,' ‘Homosexual,' ‘SOB' |
| 2016-08-09 |
| [Breitbart] Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, notorious for using profanity liberally towards others in politics, told an audience of soldiers Friday that his recent meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry went well but that U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg was a "homosexual" "son of a bitch" who "really annoys me." Duterte met with Kerry and Goldberg in late July to discuss the response to Manila winning an international court case against China at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Kerry, he told the audience Friday, is "okay, but I had an argument with their ambassador, that bakla [homosexual]. Son of a bitch, he really annoys me." There is no record of Goldberg publicly identifying as gay, indicating Duterte meant to use the word purely derisively. Duterte’s feud with Goldberg began while the former was still a presidential candidate. Goldberg issued a condemnation of a joke Duterte made on the campaign trail, suggesting that the gang rape of a young woman in Davao City, where he served as mayor for 22 years, was only a tragedy because he himself did not get to have sex with her first. "Any statements by anyone, anywhere that either degrade women or trivialize issues so serious as rape or murder, are not ones that we condone," Goldberg said at the time. Duterte responded then to Goldberg that he would sever all diplomatic ties with the United States if he became president in response to Goldberg’s condemnation, and that he would give the United States "a shit" if Goldberg did not "shut your mouth." The rape remark landed Duterte in international news headlines and cemented his reputation abroad as loose-lipped and little concerned with maintaining a proper image. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 duarte seems to be getting some things done |
| Posted by: 746 2016-08-09 23:05 |
| #1 Not well liked in Bolivia either. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-08-09 08:27 |