Former US President Barack Obama's half-brother, Abon'go Malik Obama, has announced that he will vote for Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election.
“My name is Malik Obama. I am a registered Republican and I will be voting for President Donald Trump,” he wrote in a post on X.
My name is Malik Obama. I am a registered Republican and I will vote for President Donald Trump.
—Malik Obama (@ObamaMalik) September 4, 2024
Obama's brother supported Trump against Democratic presidential candidates the former president supported in the last two elections, including Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton.
Malik Obama told The New York Post that he likes Trump because he “speaks from the heart.”
“Make America Great Again” is a great slogan, I'd love to meet him [Trump]”, he said.
In the past, Obama's half-brother has called him a “deep disappointment” and blamed Hillary Clinton for his departure from the party.
Malik Obama, who was also a special guest of the Trump campaign in 2016, said he is “still 110% behind Trump.”
Malik Obama, an accountant by profession, was the best man at Obama's wedding to Michelle Robinson in 1992 and even visited the White House when his half-brother was president there.
“I supported Barack Obama throughout his entire presidency until I realized he was only thinking about himself,” Malik posted on X in 2022. “That's when I abandoned him for President Trump.
The two half-brothers had a cordial relationship before Obama. However, they fell out after Malik Obama set up a charity called the Barack H. Obama Foundation, but failed to register it and lied that it was a tax-exempt organization.
He also added to the conspiracy theory, largely spread by Donald Trump, that former President Obama was not born in the US and was a Kenyan citizen. At the time, Malik Obama shared a fake photo of a birth certificate, dated before the formation of the Republic of Kenya in 1964, which allegedly showed that his half-brother was born outside the US.
Malik Obama has been vocal on social media about his conservative views on gay marriage and abortion. “We Want More Babies. My President,” he posted on X last month after Trump promised that if elected, his administration would pay for free IVF treatments
