Posted on 11/10/2016 12:44:04 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Controversial Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has moved to bury the hatchet with the United States after Donald Trump's election to the White House.
"I would like to congratulate President Trump. Long live!" Duterte said to applause on Wednesday. "Now we're here, I don't want to ... fight because Trump is already there."
The traditional alliance between the United States and the Philippines had been strained since Duterte called Obama a "son of a bitch" in September.
One month later, during a visit to China in October, Duterte said the US alliance was over, claiming "America has lost."
But one day after Trump won the 2016 United States presidential election, the Philippines president said he and Trump had a shared trait, and that some military exercises would be back on....
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Just wait till the Iranians start messing with Trump.
Maybe Trump can do a “I do not apologize for the USA” tour?
Awesome!
NO probs Duterte. Obama has made us cuss a heckuva lot more than you...;)
Duterte has been a flake since he came to office. I like the concept of law and order, but giving the police and army free reign to kill suspected drug dealers without trial is a direct assault on individual liberty.
FReepers are rightfully upset about what happened to LaVoy Finicum in Oregon. That is happening in the Philippines on an industrial scale.
I don’t consider him a stable individual. We need to keep him at arms length.
Rody “Do Dirty” Duterte.
Lavoy Finicum was NOT a drug dealer. I for one hope Mr. Trump releases the hounds on illegals and drug dealers.
Yeah... and he won't even be the actual President for three more months.
Looks like that Chinese check wasn’t as big as Rodrigo thought it was going to be.
Bet Trump is a better shot...
LMFAO! This guy called obama a sob on live TV. obama must be raging mad right now. leaders of the world happy trump is next potus.....some of the same ones that dissed him.
Schummer telling us no TPP! The world in 2 days has started to respect us again. LOL..that has to be giving obama fits.
He is a full on narcissist....you know it is killing. This will make him much more of a danger in these next 70 days than if hillary had won.
The Trump effect.
>Lavoy Finicum was NOT a drug dealer. I for one hope Mr. Trump releases >the hounds on illegals and drug dealers.
Bingo. Finicum was not a drug dealer.
But, what Duterte is doing in the PI is effective and needed and the only way to handle the situation in that country. There has been and will be collateral damage but that’s the way the things happen. I was in the PI off and on for many years, and extreme measures are needed to get things done quickly there. We may not like it, but it is their country and we shouldn’t condemn it.
“Only two days in and already reestablishing critical alliances.”
Yep and Iran is wondering about their nuclear “deal” with Obama.
Duterte just don’t like effeminate milquetoasts...
In 2 days he’s added almost 70K to my portfolio.
yeah. ABS CBN predicted a “bromance” between them...
Duterte is fighting the elites and SJW here too, but has the people (working class and most of the middle class business community) behind him.
you misunderstand Philippine culture. We joke a lot here about serious things.
The press is against Duterte, incuding some of the elite press here, but in reality a lot of the elites here are corrupt and know that now the fight has gone from low level pushers to the big shots. Right now, the big question is why the cops shot an ex mayor/drug dealer who was in jail and was ready to spill the beans on a bigger politician. The bigger politician is portrayed in the US media as defending “human rights” against murders, but here we all roll our eyes because we know the back story.
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