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Politics, The Media

DONALD TRUMP CAUGHT USING THE WOMEN’S BATHROOM IN LAREDO, TEXAS

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Trump as he exited the women's restroom at the Laredo International Airport.
Trump as he exited the women’s restroom at the Laredo International Airport. (Screen grab)

LAREDO, Texas (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Every so often, politicians and celebrities are caught in uncompromising situations — in public restrooms.

It is no secret that Republican presidential candidate likes women. That’s why he owns several beauty pageants and has been married three times. But who knew he also likes using women’s public restrooms?

Trump arrived in Texas yesterday to tour the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo. He tried to be incognito by wearing a white baseball cap to hide his all too familiar faded blond hair as he stepped off his private jet and proceeded to use the international airport’s restroom– the women’s restroom.

It all went without incident until he came out of the restroom to a swarm of television cameras, reporters and photographers.

Asked why he chose to use the women’s bathroom instead of the men’s, Trump simply shrugged his shoulders and said, “I needed to go pee so bad I didn’t realize I entered the women’s bathroom. It was only when I noticed it had stalls but no urinals that I knew I was in the wrong bathroom, but it was too late. I really couldn’t hold it any longer!”

Nothing ever embarrasses Trump, but this incident apparently did.

Entertainment, Music

FOREIGN CONCERT ARTISTS UNITE TO BOYCOTT THE PHILIPPINES

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New Directions
One Direction

LOS ANGELES, California  (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Foreign concert artists continue to run afoul of the Philippines’ strict moral and other standards, and they are uniting to skip the country for their world music tours.

In 2012, a Lady Gaga Manila concert attracted widespread protest due to supposedly anti-Christian lyrics in one of the singer’s hits. And earlier this year, two members of One Direction paid bonds of roughly $4,500 before their performance in Manila, due to their casual admission of marijuana use in a video released last year.

This week, Grammy Award winner Chris Brown was barred from leaving the country after a one-day concert in Manila because of fraud charges brought against him by an influential church group. The charges stemmed from the singer’s non-appearance at a New Year’s Eve concert at the Philippine Arena, owned by the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ).

Earlier today, Madonna, who had just announced she has chosen the Philippines as the only country in Asia that would be included in her Rebel Heart Tour, said she decided to cancel her February 2016 concert at the Mall of Asia in Manila, in solidarity with Brown.

The boycott could either deprive Filipinos of the chance to see their favorite international artists, or possibly enhance the careers of local singers and performers. After all, Filipino artists are among the best in the world.

 

 

 

International, Travel

SINGER CHRIS BROWN ESCAPES FROM MANILA, IS NOW SAFE AND SOUND IN HONG KONG

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A jumbo jet's wheel well
A jumbo jet’s wheel well

HONG KONG (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Grammy Award winner Chris Brown has eluded immigration authorities in the Philippines and is now safe and sound in Hong Kong.

Brown was in Manila for a one-day concert on Tuesday and was prevented from leaving the country because of fraud charges brought against him and his promoter in connection with a New Year’s Eve concert last year.  The singer failed to show up for the scheduled gig at the Philippine Arena, even after being paid $1 Million in advance.

Hong Kong authorities said that Brown arrived holed up in the wheel well of a China Airlines jumbo jet.  That he survived the two-hour flight from Manila below freezing cold weather at oxygen-depleted heights without dying or falling out of the wheel well was in itself, a miracle, the authorities said.

However, this is not the first time a person has attempted to do this.

In 2014, a 16-year-old boy survived a five-hour flight from California to Hawaii after he sneaked into the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines plane.

Eyewitnesses said that early this morning, Brown asked immigration officers if he could step outside the airport terminal  where he was being held in order to smoke a cigarette. Just like most airports, the Ninoy Aquino International Airport is a smoke-free facility.  The officers led him into the tarmac, where he suddenly disappeared.

It was not until Philippine authorities received word from Hong Kong that they had realized what happened.

The immigration officers assigned to watch over Brown have been put on administrative leave pending investigation of the great escape.