EP 46: Duterte's Final State of the Nation Address

President Duterte delivered his Final State of the Nation Address - a mix of fulfilled promises and broken ones and the promise to do more in his last year in office.

It was also a mix of explanations, justifications behind certain highly criticized policy decisions like why he dealt the way he did with China or why he caused the shut down of ABS-CBN. 

One thing was clear though — he kept going back to his comfort zone, the issue of drug and criminality issues that ate up much of his nearly three-hour SONA.

This final SONA was supposed to communicate Duterte’s  legacy. But what kind of message actually came across to millions of Filipinos reeling from the pandemic?