A top New York ally of Donald Trump put his foot in his mouth Friday when asked for his wishes for the new year – saying he’d like President Obama to die of mad cow disease and for Michelle Obama to live with an ape in an African cave.
Alternative weekly Artvoice asked developer Carl Paladino, a member of the Buffalo Board of Education, and 42 other locals for ther 2017 wish lists, The Buffalo News reported.
“Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Hereford. He dies before his trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to Valerie Jarrett, who died weeks prior, after being convicted of sedition and treason, when a jihadi cellmate mistook her for being a nice person and decapitated her,” he rambled, referring to the senior adviser to the president.
When asked who he’d most like to see go in 2017, he replied: “Michelle Obama. I’d like her to return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.”
Paladino, who was rebuffed this week when he asked the school board to replace pictures of the president with the president-elect, acknowledged to The Buffaol News that he made the inflammatory comments.
“Of course I did,” he said Friday morning. “Tell them all to go f— themselves,” he said. “Tell that Rod Watson I made that comment just for him,” he added, referring to one of the paper’s black editors who is also a columnist.
The co-chairman of Trump’s New York campaign said he made the statements because of what he considered Obama’s ineffective response to the crisis in Aleppo.
He called Obama the worst president in US history and assailed him for “putting criminals back on the streets.”
“Yeah, I’m not politically correct,” he continued. “They asked what I want and I told them.”
Gov. Cuomo slammed Paladino for his offensive statements, caliing them “racist, ugly and reprehensible.”
“Paladino has a long history of racist and incendiary comments. While most New Yorkers know Mr. Paladino is not to be taken seriously, as his erratic behavior defies any rational analysis and he has no credibility, his words are still jarring,” the governor said in a statement.
“His remarks do not reflect the sentiments or opinions of any real New Yorker and he has embarrassed the good people of the state with his latest hate-filled rage,” he added.
Many residents also lambasted him and renewed a call for him to step down from the board.
“I think it’s shocking and distressing that someone who plays such a vital role in the education of our young people in the city, in a district that has such a large minority population, that he would say something so blatantly racist in print,” Shira Klaiman, a parent, told The Buffalo News.
“What I don’t want is for this to become normal,” she added. “That can happen if we don’t stand up and say ‘No, this isn’t OK.’ ”