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President Trump shocked both human rights advocates and, reportedly, members of his own administration this weekend when he extended an invitation for a White House visit to Rodrigo Duterte, the outlandish authoritarian president of the Philippines.
Duterte said he might be too busy to swing by Washington, but the invitation itself is striking.
He has been been accused of inciting extrajudicial killings as part of a violent crackdown on drug abuse and crime that’s resulted in thousands of civilian deaths since he took office last June.
Though he has previously refuted comparisons to Trump, Duterte rose to power following a similarly unconventional and controversial populist campaign last year.
Well before he was elected, Duterte had become the subject of international headlines and condemnation with an unfiltered string of inflammatory, crass and often violent statements that have continued into his presidency.
“Give me salt and vinegar and I’ll eat his liver.”
In perhaps one of his most unsavory statements to date, Duterte threatened to eat terrorists alive while speaking at the kickoff of a national sports tournament in Laos last month.
The gruesome comments followed a foiled terror attack on the resort island of Bohol by Islamic militants. Duterte had ordered troops to kill the suspected extremists behind the plot but, he warned the crowd, he could easily be “50 times” more brutal than the terrorists themselves if provoked, threatening to eat their organs if captured alive.
“Just drive me to extreme anger, and I can eat a person,” he said. “Give me salt and vinegar and I’ll eat his liver.”
“You know, I am capable of eating a person,” he insisted. “If you anger me, in truth, I will eat you alive. Raw.”
“If you are corrupt, I will fetch you using a helicopter to Manila and I will throw you out.”
Back in December, Duterte claimed that he’d once thrown someone out of a helicopter — warning double-dealing politicians that he wouldn’t hesitate to do the same to them.
“If you are corrupt, I will fetch you using a helicopter to Manila and I will throw you out,” Duterte declared during a televised speech to typhoon victims. “I have done this before; why would I not do it again?”
Within a couple of days, however, Duterte had backed away from the claim, first responding incredulously when asked about it during an interview with Philippine news channel ABS-CBN. He later denied the story to CNN Philippines, saying, “We had no helicopter. We don’t use that.”
“If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself.”
The 71-year-old former mayor was elected president of the archipelago last year after a campaign filled with profanity and threats of violence in a bloody war against drugs and crime.
Duterte briefly tempered his typically incendiary language for his first official speech after taking the oath of office in June 2016, but by that night he’d resumed threatening to kill drug addicts and even encouraged civilians to do so themselves.
“These sons of whores are destroying our children. I warn you, don’t go into that, even if you’re a policeman, because I will really kill you,” the newly minted president told an audience of about 500 people in a Manila slum. “If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself, as getting their parents to do it would be too painful.”
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