Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte channeled his inner Donald Trump and fired a top government lawyer who expressed a legal opinion that special economic zones may issue casino permits to operators.

The president’s press conference on Tuesday turned into a scene from Trump’s defunct TV show “The Apprentice” after Duterte called Philippine Government Corporate Counsel Rudolf Philip Jurado in front of the local media to announce the lawyer’s outright dismissal from his post.

“May I call the government corporate counsel now? Are you here? Because if you are here, come out. You are fired,” Duterte told Jurado, according to the ABS-CBN News report.

The firing of Jurado confirms a CalvinAyre.com news report last week that officials from the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel (OGCC) and members of APECO BOARD are the most likely candidates to get the boot from the President, not Philippine Amusement Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) chair Andrea Domingo.