Leave America if you don't like Donald Trump: judge to new US citizens
The judge later said his comment was not political and that he only meant to be respectful of the president's office.
San Antonio: While presiding over a naturalisation ceremony in San Antonio where 500 immigrants took oath of US citizenship, a judge told them to go to another country if they did not like Donald Trump – the US President-elect.
According to a report in The Washington Post, the immigrants had gathered at Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio on Friday to take oath of allegiance to the United States, when US Magistrate Judge John Primono made the statement.
“I can assure you that whether you voted for him or you did not vote for him… If you are a citizen of the United States, he is your president. He will be your president, and if you do not like that, you need to go to another country,” the judge said.
Primono had also lashed out American protestors who carried sign boards that stated, ‘He’s not my president’.
“I detest that, because you can protest things that happen in this country; you have every right to. You don’t do that by offending national symbols like the national anthem and the flag of the United States,” he had said at the ceremony.
Primono later said that his comment was not political and that he only meant to be respectful of the president’s office. Clearing the air that he was speaking in favour of the US President-elect, the judge said that he did not vote for Trump in November 8 US presidential election.