Did This Huge List of Celebs Promise to Leave US if Trump Won?
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- Nov 08, 2024
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Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, Kim Kardashian, Tom Hanks, Oprah, Bryan Cranston, and Hillary Clinton were among a huge list of celebrities that influencer Andrew Tate said had pledged to leave the United States if Donald Trump won the presidential election.
In an explicit live stream, Tate, who said he would move back to the U.S. after Trump's victory, rattled off dozens of superstars' names telling each of them to "f*** off."
Some of the world's biggest names lent their support to Vice President Kamala Harris' failed White House bid. Other big names have previously said they would leave the U.S. if Trump was elected president.
However, as Newsweek discovered, most of Tate's claims were wrong and others were missing valuable context.
A post on X, formerly Twitter, by user @EM_Highlights, showed Tate listing celebrities who allegedly promised to leave if Donald Trump won the presidential election. The video includes foul and offensive language.
"I have a long list here of all the people who said they were going to leave America if Trump wins," Tate said.
The list included Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Rob Reiner, Barbara Streisand, Cher, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Megan Rapinoe, Tom Hanks, Amy Schumer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Bill Gates, Jane Fonda, Madonna, Mark Ruffalo, Kim Kardashian, Bruce Springsteen, George Clooney, Hunter Biden, Oprah, Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Miley Cyrus, Travis Kelce, Bobbi Althoff, Rashida Tlaib, Stormy Daniels, Anthony Fauci, George Soros, Diddy, Eminem, Ellen DeGeneres, Sean Penn, Sharon Stone, Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee, Bryan Cranston, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Bono.
Without other explanation, Tate's claim arguably suggests these people had made claims in the lead-up to the 2024 election.
President-elect Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 5. Influencer Andrew Tate listed celebrities that he claimed had pledged to leave the U.S. if Trump was elected.
President-elect Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 5. Influencer Andrew Tate listed celebrities that he claimed had pledged to leave the U.S. if Trump was elected.
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Newsweek could not find public statements from most of these people saying they would leave the U.S. if Trump was elected. Of those who had, most made their comments during the 2016 or 2020 election cycles. Context has altered many of those comments as well.
Of the celebrities that Tate mentioned, the following made comments that they would or had considered leaving if Trump was elected president:
Whoopi Goldberg
As previously reported by Newsweek, Goldberg was quoted saying in March 2016 "maybe it's time for me to move, you know. I can afford to go."
However, Goldberg clarified her comments on The View in the days after Trump was elected in November 2016.
"A lot of folks have said they were leaving over the course of these last couple years if Trump got elected. And, once again, people assume that that's what I [said]," Goldberg said, adding that she was "incorrectly lumped" in with such people.
Her full quote was: "You start pointing and saying, 'This person's a rapist and a murderer;' it pisses me off, because I've been part of when they just use blanket statements about Black people, or when they use blanket statements to talk about white people or women or any other group.
"I don't think that's America. I don't want it to be America. Maybe it's time for me to move," Goldberg added, reading out her previous statement.
Goldberg later said: "Just to be clear, I wouldn't leave this country for him to piss all over, for any reason. I've been here since the late 1700s," she added.
In November 2016, Goldberg again said that she was "not leaving the country that I was born and raised in. My family spent years trying to get the vote, and trying to do all the things that we as Americans are allowed to do.
"We're allowed to protest. We're allowed to stand up and say we disagree. Whether we agree or not, it's OK. But you don't get to get to tell me that I'm going. You don't get to make that decision for me. I'm staying!"
John Legend and Chrissy Teigen
In September 2020, Legend suggested to Cosmopolitan that he and Teigen, his wife, had considered leaving the U.S. because of Trump. The quote was not a pledge, however, as Tate claimed.
"Every once in a while you think about it," the singer said.
"We were born and raised here, all of our families are here. It would be hard to leave. But I don't know what one's supposed to do when you have a leader who is trying to destroy democracy."
Barbara Streisand
Streisand said in an interview with Stephen Colbert in November 2023, "I can't live in this country if [Trump] becomes president," adding she might move to England.
She made similar comments in 2016, telling the Australia's 60 Minutes: "I worry, I don't take anything for granted, I want Hillary Clinton to be president of the United States but it's still, there's still a lot of sexism in 'A woman being president?"
"Making fun of her, the way he insults her right and left. He has no facts but I don't know, I can't believe it, I'm either coming to your country if you let me in or Canada."
Cher
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