Posted on 11/09/2016 1:59:22 AM PST by jmaroneps37
Dozens of celebrities vowed to leave the country if Donald Trump won the White House, saying they’d flee to everywhere from Canada to Jupiter.
The threat is a common one after any election outcome: Canada’s immigration website crashed from heavy traffic as it looked increasingly likely that Trump would win.
But after the real estate mogul clinched the presidency in a stunning victory early Wednesday morning, some of those stars will face questions about making good on their promise.
Here is a list of some of the celebs who claimed they would move out of the U.S. under a Trump administration.
Actors
Bryan Cranston said he hopes he doesn’t have to pack his bags, but would “definitely move” if Trump won. “Absolutely, I would definitely move,” the “Breaking Bad” star said on “The Bestseller Experiment” podcast. “It’s not real to me that that would happen. I hope to God it won’t.”
Samuel L. Jackson slammed Trump for running a “hate”-filled campaign and said he would move to South Africa if he wins. “If that motherf---er becomes president, I’m moving my black ass to South Africa,” the movie star quipped to Jimmy Kimmel.
Lena Dunham told Andy Cohen at the Matrix Awards that “I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will. I know a lovely place in Vancouver.” The star and creator of HBO’s “Girls” has been a vocal advocate for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee.
Neve Campbell, an actress on the political drama “House of Cards,” vowed to move back home to Canada, while “Orange is the New Black” actress Natasha Lyonne said she would hightail it to a mental hospital.
Singers
Cher tweeted this summer that if Trump gets elected, “I’m moving to Jupiter.”
Miley Cyrus wrote in an emotional Instagram post in March that tears were running down her cheek and she was unbelievably scared and sad. “I am moving if he is president,” the young pop star said. “I don’t say things I don’t mean!”
Barbara Streisand, a vocal Clinton supporter, told “60 Minutes” that “I’m either coming to your country if you’ll let me in, or Canada.”
Ne-Yo told TMZ last month that he’d move to Canada and be neighbors with fellow R&B singer Drake if the country elected Trump.
Comedians
Comedian Amy Schumer said in September that Spain would be her destination of choice.
“My act will change because I will need to learn to speak Spanish,” Schumer said in an appearance on the BBC’s “Newsnight.” “Because I will move to Spain or somewhere. It’s beyond my comprehension if Trump won. It’s just too crazy.”
Chelsea Handler said she already made contingency plans months ago.
“I did buy a house in another country just in case,” the comedian and talk show host said during an appearance on “Live with Kelly and Michael” in May. “So all these people that threaten to leave the country and then don’t — I actually will leave that country.”
Former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart said he would consider “getting in a rocket and going to another planet, because clearly this planet’s gone bonkers” if the real estate mogul wins.
Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of the “The View”, said on an episode of the talk show earlier this year that if the country elects Trump, “maybe it’s time for me to move, you know. I can afford to go.”
Keegan-Michael Key said he would flee north to Canada. “It’s like, 10 minutes from Detroit,” the comedian told TMZ in January. “That’s where I’m from; my mom lives there. It’d make her happy too.”
Hispanic comedian George Lopez said Trump “won’t have to worry about immigration” if he takes the White House because “we’ll all go back.”
Political Figures
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joked in an interview with The New York Times in July that it’d be time to move to New Zealand if Trump were to win.
“Now it’s time for us to move to New Zealand,” she said quoting her husband who died in 2010. “I can’t imagine what the country would be with Donald Trump as our president. For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be — I don’t even want to contemplate that.”
Ginsburg later apologized for her comments, calling them “ill-advised.”
Civil rights activist Al Sharpton told a reporter earlier this year that he’s “reserving my ticket out of here if [Trump] wins.”
-- Lydia Wheeler and Judy Kurtz contributed to this report.
My favorite is George stephanapolis giving up his abc gig. He wont move to australia and should be mocked
BS has some prime properties, six I believe that will become available shortly.
Let’s hope she leaves , along with a whole bunch more Hollywood libs.
I want to see a Help Wanted sign next to the Hollywood City Limits sign.
Good riddance!
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Democrat Party?
Yo celebutards: Get off of our lawn!
Pleasant as it is to contemplate being rid of any or all of these blowhards, how many do you think will actually follow through?
Zero? Yup, that’s what I think.
I have a neighbor supposedly going to Italy and one to Canada. They’ll never go, but wouldn’t be missed.
Yup, most of them make a fortune for being fake.
So, we expect their promises to be fake, too.
I predict 2 of the whole lot might move. Hell those people are All drama queens; paid actors. They’re not going to move to a foreign country and get paid $50K to do a movie when they’ make 20 times that much to do the same thing in America. They’re all liars, trained at that. Maybe THAT’s the common bond they share with Muslims that makes them feel such a kinship - Taqiyya. Never really thought about it before but it makes sense...
Sydney real estate is pricey in the extreme.
Well ...
Bye!
Agreed. And everyone on this list should be mocked mercilessly for not carrying through on their promise.
It's tempting to respond to you by saying, Good Riddance - don't let the door hit you .... blah blah blah.....
But instead, I have a better idea. If you really want to move to a completely different country, then instead of Canada or France or S Africa, why not instead move to ......
AMERICA?
Seriously! Come visit. It's a lot closer to where you live now than any of those other countries, and you frequently fly over it now anyway. So you've at least already seen us from 35,000 feet up, and must have SOME dim idea of where we are, even if you know little else about us.
But instead of just flying over while flushing the toilets onto us from your First Class cabins, why not drive into it on an extended trip? Or use public transportation if a motor home or SUV is too big of a carbon footprint for you to stomach?
It's obvious by your shell-shocked expressions that until today your were only vaguely, dimly aware that there's another entire country out there in that vast "Red Zone" between your Blue coast-hugging "Safe Zones". De Niro says he doesn't know a single Trump supporter, so we know he hasn't ever visited, and likely a lot of the rest of you haven't either.
Honest! Come visit. We don't bite. We're really nice people. You might be surprised at what you find. At the very worst, you'll detest what you see but will at least collect a lot of good material for a script for your next movie.
"We'll leave the light on for you."
Including this particularly vile and reprehensible one:
There once was a skank named Madonna With her dentures removed said I wanna
Have you vote how I say
When we meet the next day
I'll fellate any flora or fauna
Every true conservative on his Sunday show should ask him, on camera, "So how's the move going?"
Don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya !
BYE FELICIA!
Miley Cyrus and Lena Dunham should find some nice Muslim country where women are treated like cattle and skanks like them are whipped or stoned to death.
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