Donald Trump has found a new hero.  Rodrigo Duterte, who is “president” of the Philippines got a phone call from Trump last April that went like this …

“I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem. Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, but what a great job you are doing and I wanted to tell you that.”

That would be kinda nice except for the fact that Duterte believes in shoot drug dealers and addicts from the backs of motorcycles, and has made news around the world about it.  He’s even claimed to have personally killed a few himself to show how it’s done.

“Hitler massacred three million Jews [sic], now, there’s three million drug addicts. I’d be happy to slaughter them,” he said in September. Last month, he told a group of jobless Filipinos that they should “kill all the drug addicts.” Police have killed over 7,000 people, devastated poor areas of Manila and other cities, and used the drug war as a pretext to murder government officials and community leaders.

You don’t like your boss at work – report him as a drug addict.  Don’t like what reporters are writing about you – they’re all drug addicts.

Now that’s an idea Trump would love.

Thanks to Greg for the heads up.

UPDATED!  Well, I just learned that he told Duterte military secrets in the same damn conversation.

U.S. President Donald Trump told his Philippine counterpart that Washington has sent two nuclear submarines to waters off the Korean peninsula, the New York Times said, comments likely to raise questions about his handling of sensitive information.

Trump told Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte Washington had “a lot of firepower over there”, according to the New York Times, which quoted a transcript of an April 29 call between the two.

“We have two submarines — the best in the world. We have two nuclear submarines, not that we want to use them at all,” the newspaper quoted Trump as telling Duterte, based on the transcript.

Don’t tell him anything, y’all.  Just don’t.