A FILIPINA beauty queen drew flak on social media after once again comparing President Rodrigo Duterte to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in a Facebook live video.
In a video making rounds, Miss Philippines-Earth 2016 Imelda Schweighart asked fellow Miss Earth Austria titlist Kimberly Budinsky if Hitler was from her country.
“Okay, that’s a bad question because we normally don’t talk about Hitler. But, yeah, he is,” Budinsky answered.
“Oh my God! Our President is doing Hitler stuff here in the Philippines,” Schweighart replied.
“That’s crazy,” Budinsky quipped, before asking which platform the live video was being aired.
Schweighart, who immediately deleted the video, apologized for her “soft joke,” explaining that she made the remark out of excitement.
“Guys, I’m a Duterte follower. The people who talk to me everyday knows [sic] how delightful [sic] I am to see and experience the change he has made happen so far. I am half German that is the reason why I talked to a fellow delegate about ‘Hitler’ so casually who is Austrian. Because all my life I am always teased by fellow filipinos as ‘Hitler’ because they are not well informed that Hitler was not German. In fact Hitler was Austrian. So, when I saw my fellow delegate I made a soft joke about it out of my excitement,” she wrote in a lengthy Facebook post.
“I am an extremist so forgive me my fellow Filipinos and Duterte supporters if you didn’t understand how I am. I got that idea wherein I said, ‘Duterte is doing Hitler stuff’ from online news, newspapers with headlines saying he is Hitler-like but for the good … Peace,” she added.
Schweighart is set to represent the country in the upcoming Miss Earth pageant to be held on Oct. 29, 2016 at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.
Duterte came under heavy international criticism after saying in a speech that he would be happy to slaughter three-million drug addicts like Hitler exterminated millions of Jews.
Duterte on Tuesday responded to actress Agot Isidro, who called him a psychopath in her Facebook page.
“One actress got mad at me, saying I’m a psychopath,” he said in Filipino during an oathtaking ceremony for new officials at the Palace.
“I leave her to her constitutional right to free expression. She should enjoy that,” Duterte said.
Isidro on Friday reacted to Duterte’s pronouncement that he would rather die of hunger than accept aid from superpowers that wish to meddle in his war against illegal drugs.