Trump is “down-to-earth” and “cool”, but Barack Obama has neglected his family since taking office in 2009, Malik Obama told reporters by phone from the western Kenyan village of Kogelo, President Obama’s ancestral home.
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Also, “I do not support same-sex marriage”, he said.
In a telephone interview with Reuters, Malik Obama, a man in his fifties, said he supported the measures proposed by Donald Trump, particularly his emphasis on enhancing security.
“Make America Great Again’ is a great slogan”, according to him. “I would like to meet him [Donald Trump]”, he told the Post.
Malik Obama defended the right to criticize his brother, in the name of freedom of expression.
Obama plans to return to Maryland in November to cast his vote for Trump, where he is registered to vote and used to work as an accountant in the state, according to other media outlets.
“I still feel that getting rid of Khadafy didn’t make things any better in Libya”, he said.
Reacting to the news, Mr Trump said: “Wow, he was probably treated badly by the president like everybody else”.
Malik Obama, a Muslim with Kenyan and United States citizenship, also told the BBC that the Republican presidential nominee’s proposal for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the USA was “common sense”.
Defining his stand on voting for Trump, Malik said that one of the reasons for him opposing Clinton was her party’s support for same-sex marriage. The president did not visit Kenya, the homeland of the father that he and Malik share, until a year ago. He has a different idea of what sanctifies marriage than the Republican party as well, however, as he has at least three known wives and possibly as many as 12.
Donald Trump said on Twitter he was thrilled by the endorsement.
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Obama Sr enrolled at the University of Hawaii, where he met and married the President’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. Malik Obama did not meet his younger half-brother until 1985. President Obama, 54, has seven half-siblings from both sides of his family. Malik Obama, the eldest, is the director of the Barack H Obama Foundation, a controversial Virginia charity named for his father.
