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Hobby Lobby Founder Says Trump Scares Him to Death

By Michal Addady
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David Green, co-founder and chief executive officer of Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., listens as his wife Barbara, co-founder of Hobby Lobby, not pictured, speaks to the media outside the U.S. Supreme Court following oral arguments by Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 25, 2014. A divided U.S. Supreme Court debated whether companies can assert religious rights, hearing arguments in an ideological clash over President Barack Obama's health care law and rules that promote contraceptive coverage. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Photograph by Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg via Getty Images

Hobby Lobby founder and CEO David Green is asking his fellow Oklahomans to vote against Donald Trump.

The company is headquartered in Oklahoma City, the largest city and capital of Oklahoma which will be voting in its primaries on Super Tuesday. Politico reports that Green released a statement on Sunday condemning Trump as an unqualified presidential candidate and requesting that his Republican primary-goers don’t vote for him.

The Republican frontrunner, who has been attracting followers in large part because of his business acumen, has admitted to having taken a “small loan of a million dollars” from his father. “Our family business that we began with $600 has quite possibly been more successful than Mr. Trump’s,” Green said in his statement. “But that doesn’t make either of us qualified to be president.”

He added that Trump “scares [him] to death,” and he would prefer the next president to be someone that his great-grandchildren can look up to. For Green, that person is Marco Rubio. He is impressed with the Florida senator because he “regularly exhibits humility and gives the glory to God.”

Hobby Lobby and its owners are perhaps best known for winning a 2014 Supreme Court case in which they argued that they shouldn’t be required to provide employees with contraception under the Affordable Care Act because it goes against their religious beliefs. They clashed with the federal government again in 2015 when the company was being investigated for the illegal importation of ancient artifacts.