Skip to content

Tag: Donald Trump

Trump has a lot to learn from Duterte on taming media

Published by Ellen on July 24, 2017

Oftentimes, when we read or watch on TV news about what’s happening in Donald Trump’s United States of America, you can easily find similarities in the Philippines.

It’s because Trump and the Philippine’s Rodrigo Duterte have many things in common: their contempt for the rule of law, their low regard of women, and their antagonism towards media.

The other day, Trump’s press, Secretary Sean Spicer resigned. This inspired social media wit, Bernard Ong, to pen a letter to Trump with very exciting recommendations.

U.S. former Press Secretary Sean Spicer
Continue readingTrump has a lot to learn from Duterte on taming media

The invitation to the White House that never was

Published by Ellen on December 4, 2016

Pres. Duterte talks to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump through a phone call at Legaspi Suites in Davao City on Dec. 3. Malacanang photo by Toto Lozano.  
Pres. Duterte talks to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump through a phone call at Legaspi Suites in Davao City on Dec. 3. Malacanang photo by Toto Lozano.
 

President Duterte must be euphoric after the seven-minute phone conversation with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump Friday night, he thought the latter invited him to visit the United States.

The Presidential Communication Office released the following notes by the President of his conversation with Trump:

“The President-elect Trump wishes the, to extend his warmest regards to the Filipino people. And in just a few minutes, we were talking a lot of things.

“He was quite sensitive also to our worry about drugs. And he wishes me well to, in my campaign and he said that… well we are doing it as a sovereign nation, the right way.

“And he wishes us well.

Continue readingThe invitation to the White House that never was

Trump, Duterte share stance on key US-Asia issues

Published by Ellen on November 14, 2016

Duterte to Trump: Pareho tayo nagmumura. Mabuhay ka!
Duterte to Trump: Pareho tayo nagmumura. Mabuhay ka!


By CHARMAINE DEOGRACIAS
VERA Files

IF newly elected US President Donald Trump makes good his campaign threat to pull the United States out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), he might also pull the plug on the its Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) with the Philippines.

Trump has called the international security alliance “obsolete,” saying it “is costing US a fortune.” He said as much about America’s other alliances in Asia.

These observations were contained in a pre-election research by the East West Center in Washington, D.C. that examined Trump’s pronouncements before the Nov. 8 election, focusing on key Asian issues as part of the “Asia Matters for America and America Matters for Asia” project.

Continue readingTrump, Duterte share stance on key US-Asia issues