In the aftermath of ‘the kiss’

To what depths of indecency has President Duterte and his apologists sunk that they would make light of the president of a sovereign country kissing a woman, married to a citizen of a country he is visiting, on the lips? Have the trolls become so inured to the President’s offenses that they dismiss the kissing incident as nothing but an act to “make the audience happy”?

I ask presidential spokesperson Harry Roque and the other minions: Would you allow your wives and daughters, single or married, to be kissed by the President on the mouth?

And now, assistant secretary of the Presidential Communications Operations Office Mocha Uson, in defending her boss, compared the kiss to that received by the late senator Ninoy Aquino on the flight that was carrying him to his death. When a fuming Kris Aquino defended her father and her family, Uson replied that it was not about Kris.

If President Duterte has an iota of decency left in him, he should fire this purveyor of fake news post-haste.

ROBERT ALVAREZ HYNDMAN, [email protected]