- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was known for his foul-mouthed tirades, vulgar jokes, and threats to kill people.
- His remarks were directed at everyone from drug users and critics to world leaders and even God.
- Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte endorses the killing of corrupt journalists.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who step down on Thursday, was notorious for his foul-mouthed tirades, vulgar jokes, and threats to kill people.
His unfiltered remarks were directed at everyone from drug users and critics to world leaders and even God, but he remained popular among Filipinos fed up with out-of-touch politicians and corruption.
Here are some of his quotes since taking power in 2016:
“Hitler massacred three million Jews. Now there are three million drug addicts (in the Philippines). I’d be happy to slaughter them.”
On September 30, 2016, Duterte likens his deadly crackdown on drug users to Hitler’s efforts to exterminate Jews, although vastly underestimating the number of people killed in the Holocaust by the Nazi leader’s regime.
“If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful.”
Hours after being sworn into office on June 30, 2016, Duterte visits a dockside slum and urges Filipinos to kill drug users.
“Who is this stupid God? This son of a whore is really stupid in that sense. You created something perfect and then you think of an event that would tempt and destroy the quality of your work.”
Taking aim at the biblical creation story, Duterte questions why God would create Adam and Eve and then expose them to temptation on June 22, 2018.
Shoot them dead
“My orders are to the police and military, also village officials, that if there is trouble or the situation arises that people fight and your lives are on the line, shoot them dead.”
On April 1, 2020, Duterte issues a shoot-to-kill order against coronavirus lockdown troublemakers after a protest over food aid.
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