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September 6, 2016
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| Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (pictured) expressed regret on September 6, 2016, that his comments branding US leader Barack Obama a 'son of a whore' came across as a personal attack (AFP Photo/Ted Aljibe) |
Philippine
President Rodrigo Duterte expressed regret Tuesday that his comments branding
US leader Barack Obama a "son of a whore" came across as a personal
attack.
The insult
on Monday was the latest offensive comment to raise questions about Duterte's
diplomatic skills, leading Obama to cancel a planned meeting with him at a
regional summit in Laos.
Here are 10
of his most undiplomatic remarks from before and after his landslide election
victory this year:
Respect
me, son of a whore
"You
must be respectful. Do not just throw away questions and statements. Son of a
whore, I will curse you in that forum."
Duterte,
who has launched a war on crime that has claimed more than 2,400 lives, warns
Obama not to raise human rights issues with him in Laos.
'Gay'
envoy
"I'm
fighting with (US Secretary of State John Kerry's) ambassador. His gay
ambassador, the son of a whore. He pissed me off."
-- Duterte
in an August speech smarting over US Ambassador to Manila Philip Goldberg's
criticism of his comment about wanting to rape a "beautiful"
Australian missionary.
'Fuck
you, UN'
"Fuck
you, UN, you can't even solve the Middle East carnage... couldn't even lift a
finger in Africa... shut up, all of you."
-- Duterte
in a June press conference, a seemingly unprovoked attack on the world body.
UN
pullout
"Maybe
we’ll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations. If you are that
disrespectful, son of a whore, then I will just leave you."
-- Duterte
in an August news briefing after a UN human rights expert said orders in his
anti-crime crackdown violated international law. He later said he was just
joking.
'Inutile'
Ban
"Ban
Ki-moon, he should write to me so that I will tell him: 'You did nothing.
People are being massacred by the thousands. You can't stop (the war) in
Turkey, Syria.' So one useless, inutile body."
-- Duterte
in an August press conference railing against the UN chief after Ban denounced
his apparent endorsement of extrajudicial killings.
Jet ski
policy
"I
will go there on my own with a jet ski, bringing with me a flag and a pole and
once I disembark, I will plant the flag on the runway and tell the Chinese
authorities, 'Kill me!'"
-- Duterte
in a February campaign speech explaining how he would handle Manila's row with
Beijing over the South China Sea. He has since adopted a more cautious tone.
Suicide,
genocide, upside
"That's
the invention of a woman who wants to commit suicide. You can think of
genocide, suicide or what, side by side, upper side, whatever, what if upper
side or even upside?"
-- Duterte
launches a rambling verbal assault on Agnes Callamard, the UN special
rapporteur on summary executions, after she accused him of violating
international law with his statements seen as inciting people to kill.
Burning
Singapore flag
"I
burned the flag of Singapore. I said: 'Fuck you ... You are a garrison
pretending to be a country.'"
-- Duterte
in a November speech, recalling how in 1995 he burned a Singapore flag to
protest at the execution of a Filipina maid in the city-state.
Arab
culture
"You
are not a warrior if you do that. We are not Arabs. That is not our culture. We
are all Malay."
-- Duterte
in an August speech condemning how Philippine Islamic militants supposedly
mutilated the bodies of slain soldiers.
Pope, go home
"It
took us five hours to get from the hotel to the airport. I asked who was
coming. They said it was the Pope. I wanted to call him: 'Pope, son of a whore,
go home. Don't visit anymore.'"
-- Duterte
in a November 2015 speech recalling being stuck in Manila traffic when Pope
Francis visited the Philippines.
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