A number of Hollywood celebrities have vowed to leave the United States, but they are curiously still here.
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong promised fans that he would renounce his U.S. citizenship. Ironically, Armstrong vows to live in the U.K. where abortion laws are more strict than in his home state of California.
“Don’t bet on it,” political commentator Simon Hankinson of Fox News writes, explaining that liberal celebrities are hardly ever true to their word. Armstrong also “threatened” to leave the U.S. when President Trump was in charge, but that never happened, either.
Other celebrities who promised to leave the U.S. include Bryan Cranston, Samuel L. Jackson, Lena Dunham, and Rosie O’Donnell.
Back in 2016, many celebrities pledged to leave the country if Donald Trump was elected president. This included Snoop Dogg, Amy Schumer, and Omari Hardwick. Pop star Cher said she would move to the planet Jupiter. Again, they never kept their word.
Actress Whoopi Goldberg once claimed that “it would be time for me to move” if Trump were to be elected. Instead, Goldberg has remained at her luxurious residences in Manhattan and California.
Comedian George Lopez once told Trump that he “won’t have to worry about immigration” because “we’ll all go back.”
Ahead of Trump’s victory, singer Miley Cyrus vowed, “My heart is broken into a 100000 pieces… I am moving if [Donald Trump] is my president! I don’t say things I don’t mean!”
