President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday lashed out at his critics, expressing shock that suspended lawyer Elly Pamatong was a UP graduate and that Senator Antonio Trillanes IV had survived the Philippine Military Academy “given his character, his mouth, and low IQ.”
Pamatong, several times a nuisance candidate for the presidency, had earlier filed a quo warranto petition against Duterte that the Palace dismissed.
Trillanes, on the other hand, had taken to his Twitter account to describe Duterte as “the laziest, craziest, and the worst president this country ever had.”
The President fired back, saying it was incredible that Pamatong obtained his law degree from the University of the Philippines.
He also questioned Trillanes’ intelligence and character and wondered how he survived the PMA.
Trillanes responded with a challenge.
“Just to settle the matter, I am challenging Duterte to an IQ test. Even if he gets a plus 10,” he said.
If the President scored higher than him, he would resign as a senator, he said.
The senator is serving his last term in the Senate which will end in June next year. He has been ineligible to seek a reelection in the coming midterm polls in May since he has served as a member of the Senate for two consecutive terms or 12 years.
This was not the first time that Trillanes vowed to resign following some challenges he posed to the President.