The Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte claimed that Trump wished that Duterte’s deadly crackdown on drugs would succeed in a telephone call on Saturday, and Duterte said that he assured Trump that the Philippines would maintain its ties with America — reversing his prior hostility toward the U.S. when he called President Obama “a son of a whore.” Duterte also said that Trump extended an invitation to him to visit New York and the White House next year.
Duterte had called for vigilante killings of suspected drug dealers in the Philippines when he was elected in May 2016, so far resulting in street executions of nearly 4,000 people without arrest or trial.
(See a Daily Mail article about the issue.)
It is reasonable to speculate that Trump may be much more controlled by the Establishment than most people realize. Most of Trump’s agendas are entirely contrary to the long term plans of the global elite, however Trump is actually a member of that group as well. Trump’s mostly unnecessary and divisive “gaffes” while campaigning are the biggest reason why so many people are currently opposed to his agendas, and Trump’s recent endorsement of Duterte’s homicidal policies toward his citizens is the first of Trump’s (perhaps intentional) major post-election gaffes, potentially as a part of a strategy of making his agendas seem unreasonable and unworkable.
(See an OpenMindedRealism article about that issue.)