'I will swear at you': Duterte's most NOTORIOUS political insults

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I will swear at you: Dutertes most NOTORIOUS political insults

Manila - Here are the most undiplomatic remarks from before and after his landslide election victory this year.

By KT Web Team/AFP

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Published: Thu 6 Oct 2016, 1:19 PM

Last updated: Thu 6 Oct 2016, 8:08 PM

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has been rated "very good" in an opinion poll on his first 90 days in office, which has been defined largely by his deadly war on drugs and vitriol against Western leaders.
Only 11 per cent of 1,200 Filipinos surveyed by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) agency said they were dissatisfied with his performance. That gave Duterte a net satisfaction rating of 64 percent, getting him off to a better start than predecessors Benigno Aquino, Joseph Estrada and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, but short of the 66 percent achieved by Fidel Ramos in 1992.

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A survey by Pulse Asia, another polling agency, less than a month after he took office on June 30 said Duterte had a record 91 percent trust rating. The two polls are not comparable.
Duterte won the May 9 election by a substantial margin after promising to expand a ruthless anti-crime campaign he started while mayor of Davao City, which had earned him nicknames like "the Punisher" and "Duterte Harry".
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He said Duterte's abrasive style and his sometimes profane outbursts against the United States, European Union and United Nations were not discrediting him either, and supporters would rally in his defence amid criticism at home and abroad.

Here are some of his most contentious statements: 
Since his election in June, Duterte has been unleashing anti-American rhetoric, which has included demands that the US withdraw special operations forces helping to fight Islamists in the southern Philippines.
Obama can go to hell, EU to purgatory

He has also threatened to cancel joint naval patrols and warns this will be the last year the two countries will hold joint military exercises, saying they haven't benefited the Philippines. 

"Instead of helping us, the first to criticize is this State Department, so you can go to hell, Mr. Obama, you can go to hell. Eventually I might, in my time, I will break up with America." "I would rather go to Russia and to China."
'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." - Mr Duterte, who has launched a war on crime that has claimed more than 2,400 lives, warns Mr Obama not to raise human rights issues with him in Laos.  
Duterte 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.
 
'F*** you, UN'
"'F*** 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 Ki-moon
"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: 'F*** 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 Daesh 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.
Duterte compares himself to Hitler

Hitler massacred 3 million Jews ... there's 3 million drug addicts. There are. I'd be happy to slaughter them
Duterte raised the rhetoric over his bloody anti-crime war to a new level, comparing it to Hitler and the Holocaust and saying he would be "happy to slaughter" 3 million addicts. 


Duterte to militants: 'I will eat you alive,'

"I will really carve your torso open. Give me vinegar and salt and I will eat you. I'm not kidding.These guys are beyond redemption."
Duterte has vowed to personally tear apart and eat Abu Sayyaf militants, in a bloodthirsty vow of revenge for deadly attacks.
Duterte rape joke on Australian missionary
During the election campaign earlier this year Duterte attracted widespread criticism for saying he had wanted to rape a "beautiful" Australian missionary who had been sexually assaulted and murdered in a Philippine prison riot.
"I saw her face and I thought, 'What a pity... they raped her, they all lined up. I was mad she was raped but she was so beautiful. I thought, the mayor should have been first."
Reports from the period, backed by Philippines media, name the Australian missionary as 36-year-old Jacqueline Hamill. Four other hostages were killed in the incident.
 
 
 
 
 
 



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