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| President Rodrigo Duterte |
By Alexis Romero
MANILA, Philippines — His spokespersons claim that he is often misinterpreted but President Rodrigo Duterte himself admitted Wednesday that only two out of every five of his statements are true while the rest are mere wisecracks.
“Eh sa limang salita, dalawa lang ‘yung tama niyan, ‘yung tatlo puro kalokohan ‘yan. (In every five statement I make, only two are true while three are just jokes),” the president said during the 115th anniversary of the Bureau of Customs in Manila.
“And so I’m just fond of doing it. Gusto ko lang tumawa (I just want to laugh). Well, at the expense also of myself sometimes,” he added.
Duterte cited his joke about talking to God, which was picked up by both local and international media. After his trip to Japan last October, the president claimed that God had told him to stop cursing or his plane would crash.
“They said that, 'You know Duterte is a little bit off his rocker because he claims to have talked to God.' Well, that is not really a problem. The problem would be if God starts to talk to me,” the president said.
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