Troll

I had a great laugh yesterday when I read about Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s call for an investigation of social media trolls, whom he accused of spreading “false, erroneous, distorted, fabricated and/or misleading news and information... at the expense of rational discourse [and to] deliberately create and/or foment discord and conflict.” After all, I had just witnessed Trillanes troll a colleague of his on the floor of his chamber, in the person of Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri.

Trillanes trolled Zubiri in a media interview last Tuesday by accusing the Bukidnon lawmaker of a joining the plan to whitewash Trillanes’ investigation of the Bureau of Immigration. Then he trolled Zubiri again when the latter rose to give a privilege speech defending his support of killing the Trillanes probe, which was done in a Senate vote on Monday.

In a classic trolling ploy, Trillanes responded to Zubiri’s charge that the ex-coup leader used offensive language by actually admitting that he had meant to offend. “I’m glad that the gentleman took offense because in fact the statement was meant to be offensive,” Trillanes said shamelessly, as is his wont, right in the session hall.

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