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President Trump has invited President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines to visit the White House, in a reportedly friendly phone call.
Durterte, as in, the man who declared war on drugs by killing dealers and users alike, exhorted his population into committing extrajudicial murders for him, claimed he would "eat" extremist terrorists' livers, called the EU "sons of bitches", threatened to bomb hostages calling them "collateral damage, said he would kill his own mayors and local officials, threatened to burn down the UN, admitted to personally killing people while he himself was mayor, and has said he "doesn't give a s***t about human rights".
That much is obvious.
In other news, a photo of a billboard promoting Trump Towers in Manila has started doing the rounds on Twitter, featuring Ivanka.
Ivanka, as in, the senior advisor to the President, and First Daughter of the United States in her own right.
Trump has come under great scrutiny for ongoing ties to his family business, with associated allegations of corruption, nepotism, financially benefiting from the Presidency and violating the Constitution in any number of impeachable ways.
Peter Brack posted this picture on Twitter on Monday and stated that the president of the Philippines had just received an invite to the White House.
And the anti-Trumpsters of Twitter were less than impressed...
@PeterAlexander @peterbrack I rarely use this expression, but WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!— Charlotte C ❄️ (@Charlotte C ❄️) 1493607973
@PeterAlexander @peterbrack I have never used the word "disgusting" as much as I have in the last 101 days.— Paula Grainger (@Paula Grainger) 1493608570
@PeterAlexander @peterbrack OK now it all makes sense. I know Trump likes his authoritarian leaders, but he usually… https://t.co/li4HFEqjBF— Karen Burgess (@Karen Burgess) 1493608391
@PeterAlexander @DebraMessing @peterbrack I'm pretty sure they would invite the Devil himself to the White House if… https://t.co/AjXKbDHD4i— Liri Piper (@Liri Piper) 1493609652
@PeterAlexander @peterbrack If you pay for the VIP treatment Duterte will come do Oxycontin w/you in the Honeymoon suite— Vaccinated Nick Nolte (the famous actor) (@Vaccinated Nick Nolte (the famous actor)) 1493608618
Hold your horses, lads.
This photo is actually from 2012, when the building of Trump Tower Manila began.
That's not to say that the potential for Trump and his family business financially benefiting from foreign investment and trade, while simultaneously being responsible for foreign policy, isn't an enormous and unconstitutional conflict of interests.
It is a concern
We're just saying that jumping on this sort of thing without properly checking your facts undermines your own cause.
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