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Beauty, Business, International

Donald Trump Establishes International Beauty Queen Academy

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Reigning Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach from the Philippines

NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles, Washington Bureau) – In an effort to shift the political and media focus away from his controversial Trump University, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump today announced his latest business venture: the International Beauty Queen Academy (IBQA).

Based in New York, the IBQA will offer undergraduate and graduate courses designed to train aspiring women (and transgender women) on what it takes to become an international beauty pageant title holder.

It is common knowledge that Trump used to own the Miss U.S.A. and Miss Universe Organizations and that he has impeccable credentials on mentoring and nurturing young women aspiring for a crown on their heads.

Trump said he has enlisted an international corps of former international beauty title holders to form the academy’s administrators and faculty.

IBQA has just released the strict criteria for admission to the academy, foremost of which are the ability to pay $20,000 in tuition fees per semester of the two-year undergraduate course, and $50,000 per semester of the one-year graduate course.

Interested applicants may send their headshots and the corresponding tuition fees to the Trump Tower in New York City. Prospective international students will be responsible for securing their own student visas to study in the U.S.

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Beauty, Business, Politics

Senator Chiz Escudero Quitting Politics To Pursue New Career As Makeup Artist

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Escudero and wife Evangelista (Screen grab, YouTube)

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – It’s official : Senator Chiz Escudero is stepping down to pursue his newly-found career as a celebrity makeup artist.

Escudero, who unsuccessfully ran for vice president of the Philippines in the last elections, made his announcement on GMA-7. The television network is reportedly  helping promote his career by launching a new prime-time show called ‘Beauty Tips Ni Chiz.’

A preview of the upcoming show was recently aired on GMA, featuring Chiz and his celebrity wife Heart Evangelista.

This is the first time in Philippine political history that an elected official is giving up politics in favor of a professional career in private life.  It is usually the other way around: actors, journalists and champion boxers quit their career to enter politics.

There is always a first time for everything.

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Business, Government, Immigration, International, Politics, Race Relations, Travel

Philippines To Build A Wall Around The New Trump Tower In Manila

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The new Trump Tower in Makati City, Philippines

MAKATI CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – On Monday, Filipino Congressman Joey Sarte filed a resolution in Manila’s House of Representatives that seeks to permanently ban U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from entering the country following his campaign speech last week where a he named the Philippines as one of the “terrorist nations.”

During a rally in Portland, Maine, Trump announced that immigrants came to the U.S. legally and then plotted to murder Americans. He said that countries like the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, Morocco, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Yemen were sending such people to the U.S. and called them “terrorist nations.”

“We’re letting people come in from terrorist nations that shouldn’t be allowed because you can’t vet them,” the real estate mogul said.

In the upper chamber, Senator Manny Pacquiao filed a separate resolution that would authorize the government to build a wall around the 56-storey Trump Tower in Makati City.  The residential building is set to open at the end of this year and is one of the international real estate projects of the Trump Organization.

In a statement issued to the press, Pacquiao said that the wall will ensure that Donald Trump will not be able to sneak into the property, in the event that his arrival in the Philippines is not detected by the country’s Bureau of Immigration.

“As a persona non grata, Trump should be barred from entering the Philippines or accessing his property in the country,” Pacquiao said.

In addition to the wall, Pacquiao’s resolution also mandates that the property be patrolled 24/7 by the Philippine National Police.

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