Not yet 72 hours into Donald Trump’s victory, and already the finest promises of the campaign are slipping away. Namely, the celebrities #WithHer who had vowed to leave the US are now backing down. As if Americans haven’t been through enough, it seems they’re stuck with Amy Schumer for another four years.
‘The interview where I said I would move was in London and was said in jest,’ Schumer snapped on Instagram, referring to her September chat with Newsnight in which she floated a relocation to Spain. Ditto Samuel L. Jackson, who was quick to disavow his earlier declaration on a late-night sketch show that he would move to South Africa if Trump won. On Thursday, he tweeted, ‘When you learn the difference between My Actual Opinion & A Kimmel Skit… Maybe we can talk.’
Al Sharpton was on hand to explain these reversals, himself having promised last year to get ‘my ticket out of here if he wins’.
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