Feminist comedienne Amy Schumer could soon be packing her bags for Spain.
The stand-up comic recently discussed the presidential election with BBC Newsnight and claimed those who don’t support Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are simply misinformed, and said she may move to Spain if Republican Donald Trump is elected in November.
BBC’s Emily Maitlis pointed out that “if you say the name Hillary Clinton in America, you get incredible responses – there will be those who love her and there will be those with a visceral hatred …
“Well, that’s what I’m saying with the not being informed because those people aren’t informed,” Schumer said, cutting off the host. “If you go, ‘Why don’t you like Hillary?’ They’ll go, ‘She lied about her emails, what else is she going to lie about?’
“People get one fact and that’s what they latch on to about a candidate,” she continued. “They go, ‘She lied about that.’ I’m like, ‘Well, Donald Trump has a fake college. Donald Trump doesn’t pay his workers. He won’t release his taxes. There’s never been a nominee who has ever not released their taxes.’”
“I haven’t had a conversation with anyone who doesn’t like Hillary where they have had anything meaningful to say,” she concluded.
That’s when Schumer promised to move out of the country if Trump is voted in as the next POTUS.
“If it isn’t Hillary in November, does your act change?” Maitlis questioned. “Does your outlook change?”
“My act will change because I will need to learn to speak Spanish, because I will move to Spain, or somewhere,” Schumer shot back.
A President Trump would blow her mind, she said.
“It’s beyond my comprehension if Trump won,” Schumer told Maitlis. “It’s just … it’s too crazy.”
Schumer, of course, isn’t the first celebrity to promise to move away if Trump becomes president.
Miley Cyrus announced on Instagram this spring that she considers Trump a “f**king nightmare” and she plans to “move out da country” if he’s elected, according to Breitbart.
Whoopi Goldberg made a similar proclamation on “The View.”
“Listen, he can be whatever party he wants to be,” she said. “What he can’t be is he can’t be the guy that says it’s your fault stuff isn’t working. That’s not the president I want. Find a way to make stuff work.”
“Maybe it’s time for me to move, you know,” Goldberg continued. “I can afford to go.”
Samuel L. Jackson told Jimmy Kimmel he’s moving to South Africa if Trump wins, while Jon Stewart “would consider getting in a rocket and going to another planet, because clearly this planet’s gone bonkers,” he told People.
Rev. Al Sharpton also said in February he won’t live in Trump’s America.
“If Donald Trump is the nominee … I’m also reserving my ticket to get out of here if he wins,” Sharpton said at an event for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, according to The Huffington Post.
Comic Eddie Griffin is “moving to Africa,” while Cher is “moving to Jupiter” if Trump is elected in November.
Crude feminist comic Lena Dunham and “The View” co-host Raven-Symone have also vowed to move to Canada.
“I know a lovely place in Vancouver, and I can get my work done from there,” Dunham at the Matrix Awards in April, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will.”
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