TAIWANESE animators have portrayed President Rodrigo Duterte as a clown, a moron and someone who wants to be like North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un.
Their 1:50-minute video, entitled “Philippines President Duterte is nuts,” portrays Duterte as a jumping clown and a trigger-happy murderer of 3,000 Filipinos who nevertheless bows before China and Russia.
“Duterte comes from humble beginnings as a mayor who ordered liquidation squads to kill criminals and opponents in gangland-style assaults that left about 1,000 dead,” says an English subtitle of the narration.
Duterte’s supporters see him as a hero or a “bad-ass macho action star,” but the news animation shows him leading the killing of drug suspects on the streets.
“After finagling his way into the presidency, he’s taken his executions nationwide with his anti-drug campaign, which has left more than 3,000 suspected drug users and dealers dead since taking over in June,” the video says.
The Department of Foreign Affairs refused to comment on the video, but one official who refused to be named said he did not want to dignify the video by commenting on it.
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office had yet to comment on the video as of press time.
TomoNews, the maker of the video, is a news website where most entertaining and uncensored news around the world are reported through animation.
The news agency also made fun of Duterte’s cursing of Pope Francis, his profanity-laced remarks against the Philippines’ longtime ally the United States, and his negative remarks against the United Nations for raising the issue of summary killings and human rights abuses.
The video says Duterte’s dirty mouth is wreaking havoc on the Philippine economy.
“Duterte likes to talk tough, but he carries a little stick. His mouth has been writing checks his country can’t cash,” the video says.
“This moron thinks his allies are his enemies, and that he can trust countries like China and Russia.”
Last month, during the Asean summit in Laos, Duterte threatened United States President Barack Obama that he would call him a “son of a whore” if he raised the issue of summary killings in his country.
Before that, Duterte also called the US Ambassador to the Philippines an “annoying homosexual son of a whore” for reacting on Duterte’s campaign statement about an Australian missionary who was raped and later killed.
He also threatened to leave the United Nations after two rapporteurs urged him to stop the killing of drug users and dealers.
And this week, Duterte warned he would establish alliances with China and Russia.
The video shows Duterte bowing down before a bear wearing a Russian military uniform and a panda, China’s famous animal, but in the end he was left with nothing.
“Sucking up to China will totally make them share the South China Sea,” the video says, but the panda throws him to the South China Sea.
The video also tags Duterte as a Kim Jong Un wannabe.
“Someone needs to just take this Kim Jong Un wannabe out and soon before he really does some irreparable damage to the Philippines. Maybe it’s time he got a little dose of his own medicine,” the video says.
“What will come out of Duterte’s mouth next? Will he follow through on those promises?”