21-07-2025
Ellen DeGeneres confirms Trump provoked UK move: It's 'just better'
Ellen DeGeneres is making a rare political comment regarding the motivation behind her move from the United States – and it's about President Donald Trump.
The former talk show host, in her first public event since leaving the U.S., confirmed Trump was the catalyst for her move with wife Portia de Rossi to the English countryside, according to the BBC and the Guardian.
"We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, '(Trump) got in,'" DeGeneres said during a conversation event in South West England on Sunday, July 20. "And we're like, 'We're staying here.'"
DeGeneres and de Rossi bought a house in Cotswolds, England, in 2024, following her Last Stand…Up Tour, according to the outlets. The couple had originally planned for the home to be a "part-time house" where they would spend three to four months out of the year, but made the move permanent after the 2024 election.
"It's clean. Everything here is just better – the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here," she added.
DeGeneres joined fellow comedian Rosie O'Donnell in a move from the U.S. post-Trump election. O'Donnell announced in late 2024 that she had moved to Ireland, and her comments regarding her exit have reignited her longstanding feud with Trump.
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In a Truth Social post July 12, Trump said that "because of the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship." The president does not have constitutional power to revoke citizenship.
In response, O'Donnell posted a picture of Trump and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, asking if he is "rattled again? 18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours."
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And in November, Eva Longoria revealed she no longer lives in America full-time, telling Marie Claire in an interview: "I'm privileged. I get to escape and go somewhere. Most Americans aren't so lucky. They're going to be stuck in this dystopian country, and my anxiety and sadness is for them."
Contributing: Jay Stahl, Edward Segarra and Anna Kaufman
