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15 Questions Malik Obama Has Posed on Twitter This November

  • By Benjamin SolowayBenjamin Soloway is an assistant editor at Foreign Policy. He worked previously in Indonesia as a web editor and Princeton in Asia journalism fellow at the Jakarta Globe. He has also lived in Brazil and Turkey. His work has been published in the Boston Globe, the New Republic, USA Today, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. He studied history at Wesleyan University.
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15 Questions Malik Obama Has Posed on Twitter This November

President Barack Obama’s older half brother, Malik, once a strong Barack supporter, endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential run in July. Malik served as best man at Barack and Michelle’s wedding and told GQ in 2013 that he shares his half brothers leadership qualities because “it’s all in the genes,” but has since begun to feel jilted by the president. “He hasn’t supported me at all,” Malik said of Barack, referring to a foundation the elder brother founded in their father’s name.

Malik’s flamboyant personality found an audience during the 2016 election — his support for Trump made him a celebrity, and he attended a presidential debate in Las Vegas at Trump’s invitation.

Over the past few weeks, Malik has posed a number of striking questions on Twitter, which in aggregate read as a chronicle of our times. We’ve collected them here.

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