READ: Duterte stresses jet ski boast was just a campaign joke"It hurts. "Nobody, including the fisherman, expected him to jet ski to the West Philippine Sea. The "flippancy" displayed by Duterte, Yusingco said, actually "betrays a lack of serious understanding about the WPS issue, at the very least." "The feeling of being punched in the gut intimated by the fisherman who asked the jet ski question is understandable and justified." READ: Jet ski brag got Duterte 'quite a number' of votes too, Lacson points outThe jet ski remark, Panelo said, was meant "to dramatize the fact that he will not allow China to assault the sovereignty of this country."

Source: Philippine Star May 12, 2021 05:15 UTC