Trillanes tells Duterte: You aren't paid to watch Netflix

Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Sunday criticized President Rodrigo Duterte for watching Netflix at home after the public missed him at work for a week.

"Bakit hindi siya nagtatrabaho? Hindi ka ibinoto ng tao para manuod ka ng Netflix nang isang linggo. Hindi pwede 'yan, hindi ka ordinaryong tao," Trillanes said in an interview in Super Radyo dzBB.

"Lumalabas dito, since wala naman siya sa ospital, ibig sabihin wala siyang sakit, ibig sabihin lang nito tamad siya, kawawa naman yung taumbayan na naso-short change siya dahil parang hari 'yung kanilang ibinoto kasi pawardi-wardi lang," he added.

Duterte on Saturday sent Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat a photo of him watching "Django Unchained" on Netflix at home.

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, on the other hand, derided Trillanes' comment.

"Alam mo 'yang si Trillanes ay hindi ko na pinapatulan ang kabalbalan nyan... Parang hindi na nag-iisip kung magsalita 'yan. As if hindi siya nagpapahinga, as if hindi siya natutulog, as if hindi siya nanonood ng TV," he said in a separate interview in dzBB.

Panelo said that Duterte was at home in Davao because he needed rest to finish a lot of paperwork after he returned from the Belt and Road forum in Beijing and added the President will preside a Cabinet meeting on Monday. —Dona Magsino/LBG, GMA News