Dirty campaign vs. Leni; missed photo op with Putin
PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT...
... THE FALSE NEWS THAT LENI ROBREDO WAS PREGNANT AND WAS PLANNING TO ABORT IT. And the question as to who was behind the smear campaign through fake news in social media.
... WHY PRESIDENT DUTERTE SKIPPED TWO MAJOR EVENTS AT APEC SUMMIT. He missed a gala dinner on Saturday and the traditional photo session on Sunday. Jet lag? A pity that of all the 21 heads of state, only he complained of jet lag. At the group photo he would’ve been standing beside his idol, Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Instead Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay got the photo op.
Where Duterte sleeps
“BAHAY PANGARAP” where then president Noynoy Aquino resided in the Malacañang compound has been renamed “Bahay ng Pagbabago” since President Duterte took over. Duterte moved in last July 12.
Like PNoy, Duterte has chosen not to live in Malacañang itself. The BnP is his quarters in Manila. In Davao City, his official residence is the Malacañang of the South. In Baguio City, it’s Mansion House.
Four days of the week, Duterte is supposed to sleep at BnP, and three days in Davao City.
Duterte watchers must wonder who sleeps with him, He had disclosed he has two wives and two girl friends.
“HOUSE OF CHANGE” from “House of Dreams,” the president’s house has become, the new name obviously reflecting the avowed mission of Duterte’s government.
Located within the compound of the Presidential Security Group (PSG), across the Pasig River. It was said to have been refurbished in the 1960s, used as clubhouse of the Malacañang Golf Club during Fidel Ramos’s term, became alternative site for official and social functions in 1996 and was demolished and rebuilt with contemporary design during Gloria Arroyo’s presidency in 2008, when she hosted a Christmas party for her cabinet (must be the occasion when Dinky Soliman led the singing of the song about staying together, forever (days later and her Hyatt Group deserted GMA).
Maybe soon, his love life
Media used to pry into PNoy’s love life and he would complain, purportedly wanting privacy on that aspect of his tenure as president. But occasionally, PNoy would open the door himself, allowing reporters a peek into his propensity to date a succession of women, latching on to no one, with none of the girls ever talking about how he behaved during the brief liaisons.
Maybe soon, those covering the president might venture to ask Duterte about his love life. Or Duterte might run out of interesting things to say at public forums and offer the information himself, as PNoy did.