Trump official Paladino under fire over indecent Obama remarks

When asked about his hopes for 2017 by The Buffalo News, Paladino said: “Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Herford.” He said he hoped the disease killed the president, The New York Times reported. Paladino, is a western New York builder who unsuccessfully ran as one-time Republican candidate for governor in 2010. Later, when asked what he wanted to be vanished from 2017, Paladino referring to Michelle said: “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.” The criticism of the radically offensive remarks was quickly spread across the social media as well as among the elected officials around the state. Governor Andrew M Cuomo, a Democrat who defeated Paladino in 2010, called the comments “racist, ugly and reprehensible”. The local county executive called for Paladino to immediately resign from his post on the Buffalo school board. Jessica Ditto, a spokeswoman for Trump said: “Carl’s comments are absolutely reprehensible, and they serve no place in our public discourse.” It was clear enough that Trump whom Paladino considered a personal friend was not intending to defend him. After facing a great deal of criticism Paladino conducted several media interviews. In a telephone interview with The New York Times he referred his statement against Obama and Michelle as “old-style humour”. Subsequently, in an interview with The Buffalo News, he berated editors there for focusing on what he had said and pointed out the page-long statement, published after the comments were made, in which he outlined his criticism of the Obama administration. Paladino, in the interview with The Times, accepted that he was not politically correct but he did not intend to create controversy by making racist comment either. He said: “I did it to wake people up; I did it to get people’s attention.” When asked why he wanted to see the first lady live with a gorilla in Africa, he paused for a long time, then said: “What’s wrong with that?”