Duterte and Trump: Similarities in personality 鈥擜FP
鈥淵ou are doing great. Go ahead!鈥�
This was what United States President-elect Donald Trump told President Rodrigo Duterte during their phone conversation on Dec. 2.
Duterte during the United Nations Convention against Corruption聽on Wednesday聽at Malaca帽ang, recalled that Trump told him to just focus on his war against illegal drugs because America had its own problems.
鈥淧resident Duterte, you are doing great,鈥� he recalled Trump telling him.
The Philippines had a strained relationship with the US after President Barack Obama criticized Duterte on his brutal war against illegal drugs.
Duterte did not like that Obama was interfering with the Philippines鈥� domestic affairs.
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