"she renounced her American middle-class existence in August 2016, fed up with what she described as a stifling, consumerist culture."
She didn't change her life in August 2016 because of Trump's election because Trump wasn't elected until the following November.
And she didn't relocate to some other country.
She went on a grand world tour.
She had a desire to see the world and decided to take a swipe at the president for the hell of it.
That’s right, the facts in the story itself don’t support the story line (narrative) . Makes you wonder how stories like this get manufactured. Did the reporter start with a desired narrative and then went looking for the closest thing that that might support it?