Ellen Degeneres Says She Moved To Britain Because Of Trump

LONDON — Ellen DeGeneres has made nary concealed of her caller British life, posting societal media clips of sheep charmingly trotting into her luxury agrarian location while she mows nan section of nan sprawling estate, her trademark hairsbreadth now earthy and undyed.

But connected Sunday she confirmed for nan first clip that she moved to nan United Kingdom permanently for 1 reason: the predetermination of President Donald Trump past November.

“We sewage present the time earlier nan election and woke up to tons of texts from our friends pinch crying emojis, and I was like, ‘He sewage in.’ And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here,” she told an assemblage astatine nan Everyman Theatre successful Cheltenham, central England.

After her long-running talk show ended amid allegations of workplace bullying, DeGeneres, 67, bought a location successful England’s picturesque Cotswolds region pinch her wife, “Arrested Development” prima Portia de Rossi, 52.

With its honey-colored stone, lush greenery and chocolate-box villages, this 800 square-mile haven is location to a slew of celebrities including David and Victoria Beckham, euphony mogul Simon Cowell and supermodel Kate Moss.

This was initially meant to beryllium a transatlantic bolthole, she said. But asked Sunday if Trump’s predetermination cemented that move arsenic permanent, she answered an unequivocal, “Yes,” successful comments nan theatre confirmed arsenic meticulous Monday.

“Everything present is conscionable better,” DeGeneres said, while lamenting nan existent authorities of her homeland.

“I wish we were astatine a spot wherever it was not scary for group to beryllium who they are. I wish that we lived successful a nine wherever everybody could judge different group and their differences,” she said. “So until we’re there, I deliberation there’s a difficult spot to opportunity we person immense progress.”

NBC News has contacted nan White House for a consequence to nan criticisms.

DeGeneres besides referenced moves by nan Southern Baptist Church to endorse banning same-sex marriage and overturn a Supreme Court ruling legalizing it nationwide.

“They’re trying to virtually extremity it from happening successful nan early and perchance reverse it,” she said. “Portia and I are already looking into it, and if they do that, we’re going to get joined here.”

She besides addressed the demise of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," aft 19 seasons, almost 2 decades and much than 60 Emmys, aft unit complained of a toxic workplace environment.

“I’m a nonstop person, and I’m very blunt, and I conjecture sometimes that intends that," she said pinch a pause, "I’m mean?”

The theater's CEO, Mark Goucher, told NBC News successful an email that it "was a immense privilege to meet her and person her astatine The Everyman. Our doorway will ever beryllium unfastened to our caller neighbor.”

DeGeneres is not nan first personification to artifact pinch leaving America's progressively polarized societal and governmental landscape.

Starting successful June past year, astir nan clip of then President Joe Biden’s disastrous TV statement against Trump, Google information showed a spike successful Americans searching “how to move to X country,” according to an study by CNBC.

In early February, days aft Trump’s inauguration, a canvass of 2,000 group by Talker Research recovered that 17% wanted to time off successful nan adjacent 5 years, pinch nan apical destination of prime being Canada. Some 69% of these respondents said they didn’t for illustration nan guidance successful which nan state was headed, and 65% said it had go excessively toxic.

Trump has antecedently fixed short shrift to these imaginable wantaways. “If you’re not happy, you tin leave,” he said successful 2019.

While DeGeneres appears to beryllium enjoying an idyllic agrarian life, location is immoderate grounds nan writer whitethorn not beryllium greener connected nan different broadside of nan Pond.

Though nan U.K. is often vaunted for its cosmopolitan free healthcare, nationalist proscription network, and deficiency of wide shootings, it really performs worse than nan U.S. connected a raft of quality-of-life indices measured by nan Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which tracks specified data.

Out of 40 countries successful nan OECD, nan U.S. ranks 10th successful nan “Better Life Index,” which rates nations connected everything from lodging and income to life satisfaction, organization and work-life balance. The U.K. is 14th.