Barack Obama's half-brother Malik calls ex-POTUS 'cold, ruthless snob', says he's 110% behind 'fearless' Trump
The half brother of former POTUS Barack Obama, Malik Obama, called his sibling "cold and ruthless" while giving a recent interview. 62-year-old Malik spoke to The New York Post via a Skype call from his home in his Kenyan village, Nyang'oma Kogelo, in an interview to help promote his upcoming tell-all memoir 'Big Bad Brother From Kenya'.
Malik revealed, "He got rich and became a snob. What I saw was he was the kind of person that wants people to worship him. He needs to be worshiped and I don't do that. I am his older brother so I don't do that." Malik is also supporting current President Donald Trump's re-election in November and had earlier sided with Trump in 2016 against Hillary Clinton. "(I'm) 110% still with Trump. He's not fake. He tells us the way he sees it. He's bold and fearless and he's tough," Malik said.
The ex-president's half-sibling also slammed presidential candidate Joe Biden and called him too old and feeble to win. "I don't think he's going to make it. His teeth are falling off. He looks like he's going to drop dead," Malik said.
Malik has spent the last 22 years working on his explosive memoir which is said to be around 435 pages long and had debuted on July 11. Both Malik and Barack share the same father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr, who was a Kenyan economist who died in a car accident in 1982. The two half-siblings first met in 1985 when Barack was 24.
The two had been even close for many years. However, the dynamics and nature of the relationship changed after Barack was elected to the presidency. There had also been a dispute over which Kenyan relatives were to be invited to the inauguration. The relationship got worse when Malik had announced plans to start the 'Barack H. Obama' foundation that had been named after their father after the 2008 elections.
In his memoir, Malik has written, "We had a big fight on the phone because he was not in support and insisted I shut down the website and not continue with the foundation. He had his reasons but I was not having any of it. We talked late into the night that night. He threatened to 'cut me off' if I continued with the idea," he had shared. Malik, however, went ahead with the foundation that ran into trouble with the law in 2011.
He had claimed that the organization was a tax-exempt non profit without registering it as such. The two brothers have had a very strained relationship in recent years though they had both been each other's best men at their respective weddings.
Back in 2013, Malik had told GQ, "Of course we're close! I'm the one who brought him here to Kogelo in 1988! I thought it was important for him to come home and see from whence his family came – you know, his roots." In that same year, Malik had told MailOnline that Barack is "always at the end of a phone line if I want to talk".