--- title: Donald Trump Invites Rodrigo Duterte to the White House description: Donald Trump invited Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte to the White House next year during a telephone conversation, Duterte aid says. canonical: https://time.com/4589202/donald-trump-rodrigo-duterte-invite/ author: Suyin Haynes article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-02T18:29:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:07:15.495Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Invites Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte to the White House og:description: After an "animated" phone call og:url: https://time.com/4589202/donald-trump-rodrigo-duterte-invite/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte6e56c8021accc08/6988abe78e06018368468073/japan-philippines_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Rodrigo Duterte og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Invites Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte to the White House twitter:description: After an "animated" phone call twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte6e56c8021accc08/6988abe78e06018368468073/japan-philippines_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Invites Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte to the White House After 'Animated' Phone Call by [Suyin Haynes](https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/) ## Suyin Haynes Dec 2, 2016 6:29 PM UTC  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks to journalists before getting aboard a coast guard ship at a Japan Coast Guard base in Yokohama, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016\. The Philippine President had a telephone conversation with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Dec. 2. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks to journalists before getting aboard a coast guard ship at a Japan Coast Guard base in Yokohama, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016\. The Philippine President had a telephone conversation with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Dec. 2.Eugene Hoshiko—AP by [Suyin Haynes](https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/) ## Suyin Haynes Dec 2, 2016 6:29 PM UTC Donald Trump invited Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to the White House in 2017 during a telephone conversation, according to an aide to Duterte. [Reuters reported](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-usa-idUSKBN13R20P?il=0) on Friday that the conversation between the two had been described by Duterte aide Christopher Go as a “very engaging, animated” one, lasting more than seven minutes. Some have drawn [similarities](http://time.com/4322636/john-oliver-duterte-trump-of-the-east/?iid=sr-link5) between the two leaders based on their unexpected rises to power and their [controversial statements and provocative personalities](http://time.com/4547214/rodrigo-duterte-donald-trump-2016-u-s-election-foreign-policy-russia-cuba-syria-china-international-relations/?iid=sr-link2). Immediately after the U.S. election last month, [Duterte](http://time.com/4547711/philippines-rodrigo-duterte-south-china-sea/) extended an [olive branch](http://time.com/4565916/duterte-congralutes-trump-makes-peace-with-us/?iid=sr-link3) to Trump, despite fractious relations between the two countries since the Philippine President’s election in May this year. Duterte also invited Trump to the Philippines next year when the country chairs the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Go said. It is tradition for the [U.S. president](http://time.com/4483650/obama-duterte-son-of-a-whore-asean/?iid=sr-link3) to attend the proceedings. At the summit in October, Duterte called [President Obama](http://time.com/4517741/philippine-president-obama-hell/) the “son of a whore.” \[[_Reuters_](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-usa-idUSKBN13R20P?il=0)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4589202/donald-trump-rodrigo-duterte-invite/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4589202/donald-trump-rodrigo-duterte-invite/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Invites Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte to the White House After 'Animated' Phone Call","datePublished":"2016-12-02T18:29:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:07:15.495Z","description":"Both leaders invited each other to their respective nations","url":"https://time.com/4589202/donald-trump-rodrigo-duterte-invite/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Philippines"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte6e56c8021accc08/6988abe78e06018368468073/japan-philippines_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Suyin Haynes","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte6e56c8021accc08/6988abe78e06018368468073/japan-philippines_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rodrigo Duterte","caption":"Rodrigo Duterte","creditText":"Eugene Hoshiko—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4589202/donald-trump-rodrigo-duterte-invite/","name":"Donald Trump Invites Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte to the White House After 'Animated' Phone Call"}}]}] ```