Tordesillas FACTCHECK: Duterte claims he is a "foreign service graduate"

Do you know that President Rodrigo Duterte is a Foreign Service graduate?

That what he said in his press conference with the foreign correspondents in China last Oct. 19.

He boasted: “Now that I am the President, by the grace of God, I read a lot; I’m a lawyer and I studied geopolitics and all, and also I am a graduate of the Foreign Service so I get to know how to balance this contending (forces).”

Being a “foreign service graduate” is quite a big leap from just having taken up foreign service which was what he said last Aug. 21, in a press conference in Davao City....

He said they might not know that he has a background in political science and foreign service.

“Baka akala nito, I took up AB foreign service. Check it out in Lyceum. Political science, then I added another one. I had an accident sa motocross. One of the many, na late ako ng isang semester. So my extra time, I took up foreign service. Consular practice and procedure, geopolitics, world trade, international trade, baka akala ninyo. ****** ina, “ he said chuckling.

So there, in the short span of two months the boast of “took up foreign service” became “a graduate of foreign service.”

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