Former President Barack Obama’s half-brother, Malik Obama, declared that he would be voting for former President Donald Trump.
In a statement on X, Obama wrote, “I am Malik Obama. I’m a registered Republican and I’m voting for President Donald Trump.”
Trump responded to the announcement on Truth Social: “Thank you Malik — A Great Honor. Together, we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Obama told Fox News Digital that he has supported Trump since 2016.
“I like him,” Obama said. “I like the way he comes across. I like his demeanor. I like his straightforwardness. And I think he’s good for the country. And, he put the country back on course. Yes. I’m a Republican, so he’s my nominee.”
He noted that the “main thing is making America strong, you know, in the eyes of the world. And Trump is a strong person.”
Obama explained that the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party led him to becoming a Republican. “They’ve been treating Mr. President Trump horribly,” he said. “I’m not seeing anything like that in my life. You know, they’re going after him for, you know, going through tooth and nail. But using the judiciary to try to lock him up and keep him off the ballot, and I’ve not seen anything like that in my life. So the way they’re treating a former president of the United States of America is despicable to me.”
He added that the Democrats are “just hypocrites,” further explaining that he saw through the party’s lies surrounding Hillary Clinton’s emails.
“[T]hey started lying and, about the emails and I saw through, you know, they’re, they’re trying to put Hillary Clinton through, by devious means,” he stated. “And then Trump came out and called them out. He called them out straight to their face. And I like that. And a light bulb just came on from my head. And I just said, ‘Yeah, this is it.’ So I’ve been a big Trump follower since then.”
Going on to describe Joe Biden’s presidency, Obama said, “He can’t even find the door even if you showed him, and he holds on until the last minute and he is the nominee.”
Obama then called Vice President Kamala Harris “a joke,” adding that he finds her position on abortion “abominable.”
“You know, giving somebody the right to go ahead and kill a baby,” he explained. “I don’t agree with it. I find it really abominable that they would do such a thing.”
Obama also takes issue with the Democrats’ stance on immigration policy.
“It took me forever to get my children [through] and I came in legally to the United States. I had a green card. The papers were put through, and I went through the process, and I was a legal resident for a long time until I decided to become a U.S. citizen. And that also was a process. You have to go and file and apply and do the things you’re supposed to do,” he said.
“And then, my children are now in the USA and had to go put in the papers for them and then legally. And then you got people coming in, illegals and being allowed to vote and things like that. And, and that to me is, you know, that’s a no no. I can’t stand for that. And I can’t support that kind of policy.”
Obama believes that Trump will win by a “landslide” because Harris “can’t even interview.”
“All she does is laugh,” he said.
