MANILA – He walks like a penguin and won’t even fit into an ambulance due to excessive weight, Philippines champion of controversy, President Rodrigo Duterte, said of a local senator who dared to criticize his government appointments.
“My brain stays in my head. Your brain, Dick, is melting and goes to your stomach. You are a fart away from disaster,” Duterte warned Senator Dick Gordon at the Bureau of Fire Protection on Thursday.
You are just a fart away. Your body cannot fit in an ambulance. Place him in your firetrucks.
Duterte also said that Gordon “walks like a penguin” and labeled his rival “a fool,” claiming that he wasn’t “really a Filipino” because he was half-white. Gordon’s father is a local politician with American-Jewish roots, who used to be the mayor of the southern city of Olongapo.
The outburst was prompted by the senator’s criticism of the latest government appointments, which were made by Duterte. Gordon said that putting former military officers in high positions was “dangerous” for civilian authority and blamed the president for not knowing enough qualified people in the capital, Manila, due to his provincial origins.
SOURCE: RT News
