Put Up or Shut Up: Time for Trump Derangement Syndrome Sufferer Celebrities to Leave Country

Cher has a new autobiography, “The Memoir,” which runs just over 400 pages, but apparently, that’s only half the story. We know that because the subtitle of the book, published in mid-November, is “Part 1.”

“Part 2”—due out in mid-November 2025, but already available online for preorder by Cher’s biggest fans—presumably will be equally hefty. Why else would there be a second volume coming?

The pop diva, 78, apparently is trying to give fellow chanteuse Barbra Streisand, 82, who in November 2023 came out with an autobiography of her own, “My Name Is Barbra”—which weighs in at a whopping 992 pages—a run for her money. (Why anyone, even the most devout Cher or Streisand fan, would want to read that much about either of these self-indulgent narcissists is anyone’s guess.)

In Cher’s case, however, won’t “Part 2” of her “tell-all” have to be written in Canada, Mexico, Europe, or perhaps Australia? After all, didn’t she vow last year to leave the country if former President Donald Trump were to win reelection?

In a mid-October interview with the Guardian of London, the singer-actress whined, “I almost got an ulcer the last time,” allegedly from the political stress. “If he gets in, who knows? This time I will leave [the country].” 

My reaction?

“Here’s your hat. What’s your hurry?” as Jimmy Stewart’s iconic George Bailey character remarked in the 1947 film classic “It’s a Wonderful Life,” albeit in an entirely different context, obviously.

Other entertainers—among them, singer John Legend and his wife, model Chrissy Teigen; actresses Sharon Stone, America Ferrera, and Amy Schumer (a cousin of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.); actor Samuel L. Jackson; and singer Bruce Springsteen—had all hinted darkly of plans to become expatriates if Trump were to return to the Oval Office.

Schumer, Jackson, and others who had made similar vows in 2016 prior to Trump’s first election, but obviously didn’t make good on them, then or since.

We will find out soon whether it’s a threat or a promise any of them make good on this time. One can only hope at least some will follow the lead of Ellen DeGeneres and her spouse, Portia de Rossi, who actually did move recently to the United Kingdom in protest.

Trump will be sworn back into office in just days on Jan. 20, so presumably Cher, Streisand, and all of the other Hollywood lefty actors and musicians who flamboyantly vowed to flee the country have by now renewed their passports, printed their boarding passes, and booked their Ubers and Lyfts to L.A. International Airport.

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The only question is, will all the smoke from the wildfires—which California Gov. Gavin Newsom and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass did less than nothing to prevent and which are still engulfing large swaths of Los Angeles County—delay their outbound flights? Those of us tired of their pious political grandstanding hope not.

Just as an aside, it’s doubtful, if he were still alive, that Sonny Bono—Cher’s husband and singer-songwriter duet partner in the 1960s and 1970s—would have joined the leftist would-be exodus. Sonny Bono—not to be confused with that other Bono, of U2 fame—was a conservative Republican who served as mayor of Palm Springs, California, before being elected to Congress in 1994. Sonny Bono had a promising political future that might have taken him to the California Governor’s Mansion, the Senate, or—who knows?—perhaps even the White House, had he not died tragically in a skiing accident in January 1998, halfway through his second term in Congress.

It’s interesting to note, however, that no prominent conservatives in Hollywood—Clint Eastwood, Chuck Norris, Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone, Jon Voight, James Woods, or Kevin Sorbo, for example—ever threatened to leave the country during the far-left presidencies of Barack Obama or Joe Biden.

As for Cher and Streisand, both of whom were famous for their multiple, unending “Farewell” concert tours, how can we say goodbye if you don’t leave? 

Sayonara, Cher. Bye-bye, Babs.

At any rate, it’s time for all of the denizens of the Hollywood Left afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome to put up or shut up and exit stage left. Do us a favor, though: Wherever you decide to go, make it a one-way flight.

Originally published by The Washington Times

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