El Presidente Trumpo surprised a lot of people when he called the president of Turkey and congratulated him for fixing an election and seizing dictatorial control of our NATO ally on the Mediterranean. THEN he invited him to the White House!! It was amazing…
But he wasn’t done – he followed it up with a phone call to the dictator of the Philippines, who has been slaughtering drug addicts on his islands. And he congratulated him for his work against drug addicts. No, really he did this.
Trump, who congratulated Erdogan on vote that was criticized as increasing his authoritarian power, invited Duterte to the White House pic.twitter.com/4DKTDo5ILF
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 30, 2017
Trump invites Duterte to White House, says Philippines is "fighting very hard to rid its country of drugs."
— Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) April 30, 2017
Don’t miss this – fighting drugs means unlawfully murdering drug addicts. Trump is.. praising him for this.
Twitter was not kind:
Admin attacks crime approach of NYC – America's safest large city – then invites admitted killer, Philippine Pres Duterte, to White House. https://t.co/ov3QHLaxbw
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) April 30, 2017
The Hague is considering charging Duterte with crimes against humanity. And Trump just invited him to the White House https://t.co/eCRMbtxIWO
— Adam Blickstein (@AdamBlickstein) April 30, 2017
Oh. Well. That’s not good.
Trump not only invites Duterte, but actually praises his “anti-drug campaign” based on extra-judicial death squads. Not cool. pic.twitter.com/iMa8PrsHUn
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) April 30, 2017
Trump invited Duterte of the Philippines to the White House. Duterte brags about personally murdering opponents. His regime is killing 1000s
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) April 30, 2017
Inmate dies in Sheriff Clarke's jail after being denied water: Homeland job
Duterte confirms he murdered 3 people while mayor: Invite to WH
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) April 30, 2017
Hard to chalk up to coincidence all the authoritarian signals coming out of the WH–Erdogan, al-Sisi, Duterte, US Constitution archaic, etc.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 30, 2017
Oh well who cares. Nothing matters. Enjoy your weekend!!