President Duterte said he was just pushing the limits of what he can say in public after he called God a “stupid son-of-a-bitch”.
Speaking before newly-elected Western Mindanao barangay chairpersons in Zamboanga del Sur today (Tuesday, June 26), the president lashed out at critics of his various pronouncements.
“I’m intentionally doing it. You know why? This country is in a doldrums. I’m shaking the tree to wake everyone up so I can see. Even my words are rude. I’m trying to go the boundaries of how far I can go,” he said.
The president’s words about God last Friday (June 22) have been broadly condemned, even by some political allies.
However, the Malacañang has defended his remarks, saying he was entitled to his personal belief.
Some previous occasions the president has pushed at the “boundaries” of offensive speech:
Comparing his war on drugs to the Holocaust: “Hitler massacred three million Jews. Now, there is three million drug addicts. I’d be happy to slaughter them. At least Germany had Hitler. The Philippines wouldn’t.”
Responding to an EU resolution condemning his drugs crackdown: “I say to them, f*** you. They’re taking the high ground to assuage their feelings of guilt. But who did I kill? Assuming it to be true, 1,700, who are they? Criminals. You call that genocide. Now the EU has the gall to condemn me. So I repeat it — f*** you.”
On Pope Francis after a papal visit to the country caused traffic congestion in Manila: “We were affected by the traffic. It took us five hours. I asked why, they said it was closed. I asked who is coming. They answered, the Pope. I wanted to call him: ‘Pope, son of a whore, go home. Do not visit us again’.”
To Chelsea Clinton after she condemned his remark that his soldiers could rape up to three women each: “These whores, they hear ‘rape’. Like, like Chelsea, she slammed me. I was not joking, I was being sarcastic. Listen to the speech. I do not laugh at my own jokes. I will tell her, when your father, the president of the United States, was f***ing Lewinsky and the girls in the White House, how did you feel? Did you slam your father?’
On the assassination of journalists: “Just because you are a journalist, you are not exempted from assassination if you are a son of a bitch.”
To a journalist who had asked questions about his health: “How is the condition of your wife’s vagina? Does she have vaginitis? Does it stink? Is it smelly or not smelly? Give me the report.”
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