Remember the judge who suggested to new citizens that if they didn’t like Donald Trump being their new president they could go to another country? Well he’s been suspended now from officiating anymore citizenship ceremonies, despite saying his remarks were taken out of context:

SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS NEWS – A federal judge under fire for reportedly telling newly sworn-in U.S. citizens last week that Donald Trump is “your president, and if you don’t like that, you need to go to another country,” was suspended Monday from overseeing further citizenship ceremonies.

U.S. Magistrate Judge John Primomo said he was not trying to tell the new Americans to leave if they didn’t like Trump.

“I would never say anything like that. I wasn’t trying to say anything for or against Donald Trump,” Primomo, 64, said. “I was just trying to say something hopeful and unifying and unfortunately it was taken out of context.”

Despite his assurances, the U.S. district judges at San Antonio’s federal courthouse — who appoint and oversee federal magistrate judges — issued a statement saying they “have determined that he will no longer be handling citizenship ceremonies, and the judges are meeting with him to see how this matter can be resolved and concluded.”

Primomo has been a go-to judge for such ceremonies since 1989, and has sworn in more than 100,000 new citizens. The ceremonies are held roughly once a month, in various venues, and can include live bands, singing, speeches from guests or testimony from participants.

But Primomo, who’s been on the bench since 1988, caused a firestorm after a video report over the weekend by a local television station, KENS, that covered a ceremony last week at the Institute of Texan Cultures.

Primomo told KENS that he meant to urge people to be respectful of the office of the president and said he didn’t vote for Donald Trump himself. But the report thrust Primomo into the national news — and into the approving embrace of many conservative websites. He called it “a difficult situation.”