Posted on 04/26/2016 2:22:21 PM PDT by rickmichaels
WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump has a message for some of the celebrities musing about leaving for Canada if he's elected president: Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
The billionaire candidate expressed delight Tuesday when asked about the phenomenon of famous Americans talking about becoming political exiles if he's elected.
He said he'd be glad to make it a reality.
"Well, now I have to get elected," Trump told the morning show Fox and Friends.
"I'll be doing a great service to our country. I have to (win). Now, it's much more important. In fact, I'll immediately get off this call and start campaigning right now."
He was appearing on the Fox show on the morning of five northeastern primaries, which he's expected to dominate, although they won't clinch the Republican nomination for him.
Trump was asked specifically about actress Lena Dunham. The star of the show, "Girls," said she is serious about leaving. She said she knows a lovely place in Vancouver and could work from there.
The candidate's reply: "Well, she's a B-actor. And you know, has no mojo. You know, I heard Whoopi Goldberg said that too. That would be a great, great thing for our country."
The show put up pictures of other famous Americans who promised to leave if their country elects the Mexican-wall-building, import-tax-threatening, Muslim-travel-banning celebrity.
They included actress Rosie O'Donnell and comedians Goldberg and Jon Stewart. Trump has had a long-running feud with some of them.
Stewart had actually joked about going far beyond the land next door: "I would consider getting in a rocket and going to another planet," he said earlier this year. "Because clearly, this planet's gone bonkers."
Americans would have several options, should they seek to immigrate: Study in Canada, marry a Canadian, invest in a business, or apply through the regular points program.
Otherwise, Canada only allows them to spend six months as tourists.
Trump's platform doesn't specifically mention Canada often -- certainly nowhere nearly as much as Mexico. However, he has repeatedly mused about ripping up the NAFTA trade deal.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been asked during recent trips to the United States about talk of a Trump-triggered exodus.
He has downplayed it, noting that threats to leave the U.S. emerge in every election -- yet the Canada-U.S. population gap remains intact.
He's correct that the phenomenon goes way back.
The day after George W. Bush's re-election in 2004, Canada's immigration website smashed its then-record for single-day visits.
FDR won a majority of whites in 1936, maybe in 1940 and 1944 as well.
Once the ‘64 election was over, the Dems understood that they would never win another Presidential election again unless the Republicans REALLY screwed up...or unless they changed the electorate in a dramatic way.
Doesn't reflect the Democrats' joy at crushing Goldwater. When Democrats won over 60% of the vote in most states, they weren't thinking they be losing elections any time soon.
Sure, Democrats expected new immigrants would vote Democrat, but nobody thought the effect of immigration would be as massive as it turned out to be.
Ted Cruz make the same offer?
Gotta give the guy credit. No one owns him.
They’re not coming to Canada anyway. They actually love their country but are too guilty or cowardly to admit it.
Racist white liberals don’t want to move to Mexico but rather to lilly white Canada that has more guns than America per capita.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You forget the “island paradise” for American leftists, CUBA.
Since the Communist Party there has arranged for it to remain in power forever, American leftists should feel right (er, LEFT) at home there.
I’ll even paddle them there if they promise to stay, forever.
I am taking notes and I will help them to pack.
“I wish they would go to Mexico, Cuba, North Korea or Iran instead.
I have nothing against Canada.”
But if they moved to Canada, it might make Canada more conservative.
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