EDITORIAL — Unbecoming

The purported good relations between President Bongbong Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte Carpio, something born out of political convenience, are certainly no more.

In her latest statement streamed on the Office of the Vice President’s official Facebook page, Carpio said Marcos didn’t know how to be president and called him a “defeatist” who “refuses to do anything” to improve his shortcomings.

“If you know you are lacking in some areas, you should be pacing yourself to catch up, and won’t just sit down and admit to these shortcomings and just say, ‘I am lacking,’ … the president does not know how to be president. Is that my fault?” she said.

She didn’t stop there, she also mentioned she once threatened to dig up the remains of his late father from the Libingan ng mga Bayani and throw them into the West Philippine Sea.

It is already unbecoming and disrespectful of her to call the president incompetent --that is given her own shortcomings as vice president and one-time Department of Education secretary-- but to sink to the level of threatening the dead, that is a new low, both literally and figuratively.

Considering what she has been saying lately, and she has been saying a lot, we can be forgiven if we start thinking she is becoming, for the lack of a better term, unhinged.

Of course, all her recent purposely vitriolic statements can also be her strategy of deflecting attention away from her as she continues to be investigated for how she spent public funds.

She might think that these scathing attacks make her look good compared to the president, and to some extent they do. But then again they might just paint her as someone who is desperately looking to provoke a reaction, to pick a fight, and that is definitely not good.

While the president’s spokesman has said he will not respond to these comments, we are sure the Marcos Family will not let this insult pass without consequence. We wonder what that, or perhaps even those, will be.