But before the Democrats start throwing rocks, below is what happened when Obama was to go to the Philippines.
Philippine President Keeps Insulting The U.S. And Obama October 5, 2016The U.S. and the Philippines are long-standing allies, but you would never know it from the way President Rodrigo Duterte is talking these days.Since his election in June, Duterte has been unleashing anti-American rhetoric, which has included demands that the U.S. withdraw special operations forces helping to fight Islamists in the southern Philippines. 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," Duterte said Tuesday. And in separate remarks the same day, Duterte made a separate threat: "Eventually I might, in my time, I will break up with America." Then he added: "I would rather go to Russia and to China." This was not the first time but only the most recent time that he has publicly insulted the U.S. president. "We knew he was brash. We knew he was bold and spoke off the cuff, but I don't think anyone expected him to call the president of the United States a 'son of a bitch,' " says Jeff Smith, the director of Asian Security Programs at the American Foreign Policy Council.
Now back to the present day Story
Nov. 10, 2017:
President Donald Trump’s tour of Asia continued
Sunday with his arrival in the Philippines, the last of five nations on
his itinerary before he returns to the United States.
The president is scheduled to attend a
pair of international summits and meet several times with Philippine
President Rodrigo Duterte.
The leader of the Philippines has come under intense
criticism from human rights advocates for overseeing a violent drug
crackdown that includes extrajudicial killings. Trump has previously
praised Duterte's handling of his nation's drug problems.Trump arrived in Manila late Sunday afternoon local time after a brief stop in Vietnam. Just hours before his arrival, riot police worked to prevent hundreds of protesters from reaching the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Reuters reported. The demonstrators carried placards reading “Dump Trump” and “Down with U.S. Imperialism,” the report said. In Manila, Trump was scheduled to meet with leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other East Asian nations. In meetings with Duterte, Trump will reportedly try to win over a leader who has expressed a strong anti-U.S. sentiment. |
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