CLAIM: Imee Marcos urged President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to resign.
RATING: FALSE
A video of Sen. Imee Marcos from the campaign period has surfaced online with false claims that she was urging her brother, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., to resign.
The spliced video was posted on TikTok, showing Senator Marcos asking a question about an unnamed individual’s resignation.
The uploader made it look like it was a sarcastic remark toward his brother, Marcos Jr., by superimposing a caption that read: “Imee Marcos pina resign ang kanyang kapatid si BBM (sic).”
(“Imee Marcos urges his brother, BBM, to resign.”)
The full version of the video can be found reposted on X (formerly Twitter). Senator Marcos’ official TikTok account was indicated in the watermark and ending credits as the source.
As of writing, the original video has been removed from the senator’s official TikTok account.
According to the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) website, there is no official announcement regarding President Marcos Jr.’s resignation.
The president personally rejected resignation calls from his critics and dismissed their concerns over the Cabinet revamp as irrelevant to the nation’s issues in a press conference before his departure from Kuala Lumpur.
President Marcos attended the 16th BIMP-EAGA Summit in Malaysia on May 27, demonstrating active participation in his presidential duties.
The TikTok video has accumulated 36 likes, six comments, and one share. Meanwhile, a version of the video was also uploaded to Facebook, garnering considerable traction and amassing 17,000 reactions, 1,500 shares, and 1,300 comments. Zelle Corpuz
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