“This Trump guy is a really cool guy and I like him because he speaks from his heart and he is so down to earth”, Malik Obama told AFP by phone from the western Kenyan village of Kogelo, from where the pair’s father’s family comes from. “I would like to meet him”, Malik told the New York Post.
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Pictures circling on social media show Malik wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, proudly displaying his show of support for the NY billionaire. “I would like to meet him”, he said.
CBS noted that the Obama brothers used to be close, though their relationship became deeply strained ever since the 2008 election.
He claims to feel “deep disappointment” in his brother Barack’s administration as well as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, which have both led Obama to switch his party allegiance.
While America is a free country and Malik has every right to vote for whomever he pleases, it can’t be a good feeling for President Obama to know his brother supports such a divisive candidate and party.
The president’s and Malik’s father, Barack Obama Sr., left Kenya in 1959 when Malik was a year old and his mother was pregnant with his sister Auma.
But bad foreign policy choices are the only reasons Malik Obama is disappointed with the choices made by his brother’s White House team. “Was probably treated badly by president-like everybody else!”, tweeted Trump.
Malik Obama also called Trump’s controversial stance on Muslims understandable, saying “I’m a Muslim, of course, but you can’t have people going around just shooting people and killing people just in the name of Islam”.
Malik Obama, President Obama’s half-brother, has never been one to cower to popular opinions.
Malik Obama believes strongly in the institution of marriage – so strongly that he has at least three current wives, although press reports have put the number to as high as 12.
Donald Trump is getting a vote from a very unlikely person.
The 57-year-old and the president had the same father but a different mother and the two men first met in 1985.
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Mr Obama plans to return to the USA to vote for Mr Trump in November. Barack’s half-brother said in his Sunday interview with New York Post.
