President Obama is a "son of a bitch," Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte said today (September 5, 2016), in what may have been the most vulgar epithet ever used against a U.S. president by a foreign president, according to the Washington Examiner website.
Duterte said he would swear at Obama at a scheduled meeting (which Obama has now canceled) if the president raises the issue of extrajudicial killings of drug suspects in the Philippines.
Around 2,400 suspected drug dealers and users have been killed without trial, in a drug war Duterte launched after taking office in June. His efforts have won public support, but the killings have been criticized by Obama.
Duterte said, "I am a president of a sovereign state and we have long ceased to be a colony. I do not have any master except the Filipino people, nobody but nobody. You must be respectful...."
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