It's HIS country now. Not ours anymore.
Americans relocating permanently out of the US are those with brains, those who create jobs and businesses. On the other hand, Emma Lazarus's wretched refuse can't leave. Those who are leaving and renouncing their US citizenship can only be two types of people: Those with the means, i.e. those who have the money to do so, and who therefore have significant education and knowledge of the world; AND Democrat-leaning Americans who are sick at watching their country turned into a banana republic whose sole function is to serve a senile imbecile dick-tator propped up like a god by a huge bunch of illiterate inbred morons from the sticks.
We hear that billionnaires are punishing California's high cost of living and taxes by leaving the State. But they are unlikely to move to one of the backward, ignorant states of the south and the middle. They are more likely to move to Europe, Canada or Mexico.
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Record number of Americans are leaving the country and renouncing their citizenship for good, report says
Josh Marcus
Wed, May 13, 2026
Record number of Americans are leaving the country and renouncing their citizenship for good, report says
Americans appear to be leaving the U.S. at once-in-a-century levels, fleeing divisive politics and a cost of living crisis.
In 2025, the flow of Americans ditching the 50 states for good caused the first estimated net outward migration of the U.S. population in decades, something that likely hasn’t happened since the 1929 Great Depression.
“Previously, the Americans leaving were super-adventurous and well-credentialed,” Jen Barnett, founder of the resettlement consultancy firm Expatsi, told The Wall Street Journal. “Now they’re ordinary people, like me.”
In 2024, Barnett joined in the trend, relocating to Yucatán, Mexico.
The U.S. government doesn’t officially track the number of Americans who’ve resettled abroad, so estimates of just how many people left can vary.
In 2025, net outward migration was between negative 10,000 and negative 295,000 people, Brookings estimates, forecasting a similar negative trend for 2026.
Others have pegged the outflow at around 150,000 people in 2025.
Before 2009, a typical year saw 200 to 400 people renounce their citizenship. By 2025, that figure was nearing 5,000, with more renunciations expected this year because fees to do so have dropped steeply.
Nearly all of the European Union’s 27 member states have seen record levels of Americans arriving to live and work there in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.
Outside of Europe, Mexico is another popular destination.
Mexico is home to the largest concentration of U.S. expats, according to the State Department (Getty)
Approximately 1.6 million Americans live there, the State Department estimates, the largest overall concentration of American expats in the world.
Even more people are considering making the change.
A November 2025 Gallup poll found that one in five Americans would like to permanently move, double the figure from ten years earlier.
A variety of factors are driving the trend, according to the data, including political disagreements and affordability issues. Further, “golden visas” for foreign investors, remote work, and incentives for digital nomads all have opened new pathways for leaving the U.S.
In addition to driving Americans abroad, the lack of affordability in the U.S. economy is expected to be a major issue in the domestic midterm elections (AFP/Getty)
“For the better part of two centuries, the story of American migration ran in a single direction: inward,” Global Citizen Solutions, a citizenship advisory firm, wrote in a recent report on the trend. “The United States was the gravitational center of global human movement, the place people came to, not the place people left. That narrative is shifting.”
According to a February 2025 Harris poll, 68 percent of Americans considering leaving the U.S. cited unattainable home ownership and a sense they were “merely surviving instead of thriving.”
Meanwhile, 49 percent cited high living expenses and disagreements with the political situation in the U.S.
Within the U.S., another migration is underway, as high-cost states like California and Hawaii have lost population in recent years.
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Opinion
Let Trump build his vanity projects as a warning to everyone else | Opinion
Rex Huppke, USA TODAY
Wed, May 13, 2026
Inflation has surged to the highest level in three years, the cost of living is up and we’re stuck in a war with Iran. But don’t worry. President Donald Trump is busy painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue.
Hopefully, this new $13 million pool project doesn’t distract him from his now more than $1 billion White House ballroom project. Or from his $100 million Triumphal Arch project. Or from putting his face on U.S. currency and passports. And his name on buildings and airports.
That sounds like sarcasm, but I’ve settled into what may be a controversial opinion: Let Trump build his vanity projects. Let his Republican boot-smoochers etch “President Donald J. Trump” into marble facades and slap that moniker on whichever edifice or coin or government document they see fit.
Let his failed presidency remain a stain for generations to laugh at.
Let Trump paint the Reflecting Pool and build monuments to himself
You’re likely waiting for me to write something along the lines of, “And then, when the would-be/wannabe king is gone, we can rip the name down, burn the documents and sandblast the Donald J. Trump off every stone surface!”
But that’s not what I want. Not at all.
When Trump’s second term ends, assuming America makes it that far, I want his name and image and his every act of tone-deaf, unchecked narcissism left standing. I want the Reflecting Pool to stay a garish bright blue, like a Mar-a-Lago swimming pool on the National Mall.
I want his absurd ballroom to stand like an unsightly wart on the White House grounds. I want the Triumphal Arch, built when there was no triumph in sight, to loom as a toweringly obnoxious reminder of the dumb and egotistical man whom Americans – about 77 million of them when Trump won his second term – willfully invited into the People’s House.
The Trump era is not one Americans should ever forget
A statue of President Donald Trump at Trump National Doral Miami resort on April 30, 2026, in Florida.
Erasure of this period in American history would be too easy. It would let too many off the hook for a decision that, as I write this, is bankrupting farmers, putting U.S. troops in danger and depleting our military resources, pushing energy prices through the roof and driving income inequality to a 30-year high.
Trump rose to political power via cruelty, dishonesty and division. He legitimized bullying, eroded America’s standing on the world stage and sowed doubts about the very foundations of our democracy. He fomented a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol and then, defying all logic, came back four years later and conned a majority of Americans into giving him another term, promising a golden age of low prices and a vengeful end to an immigrant crime wave he concocted out of whole cloth.
Our country is now reaping what MAGA voters and a political media system hellbent on normalizing Trump sowed, and I’ll be damned if I want any of them – or anyone, for that matter – to forget the historically colossal decision.
They put a self-aggrandizing conman with zero regard for humanity into the most powerful position in the world. They should sit with that for decades to come.
Tourists will one day learn about and laugh at Trump's arrogance
So let Trump erect, print and distribute these unmerited honors to himself. And keep letting Republicans watch as it happens.
When a tour bus rides under the Triumphal Arch years from now, I want the guide to explain which president decided it would be a good idea, and how much taxpayer money was dished out to build it while a sizable swath of the populace struggled to afford ground beef.
Trump’s earlier estimates for the ballroom began at $200 million when it was announced in July, rose to $250 million in September and then to $300 million in October. The ballroom will be financed by private donations, Trump said.
President Donald Trump released a new rendering of the East Wing on Truth Social Feb. 3, 2026. Trump said the price of his new White House ballroom has risen again to $400 million − double the initial estimate.
Every day, people visit Washington, DC, and view the Lincoln Memorial and learn what an important leader the country had in Abraham Lincoln. They visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and understand how the civil rights icon made the world a better place. They see the names etched into the walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and recognize those who made true sacrifices for this country.
I want future visitors to also see the outlandish giant ballroom attached to the White House like an ornate Costco and learn about a president who made no sacrifice for this country, but lavishly spent its money while the cost of living soared.
Keep the Trump name on the now-shuttered Kennedy Center
Workers react to journalists watching the installation of President Donald Trump's name on the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on Dec. 19, 2025. The sign on the building now reads “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.”
I want them to see the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts and learn that a living president came along and had the gall to put his name ahead of the name of a beloved former president who was assassinated. They’ll learn how Trump decided to shut the center down for two years for “renovations,” and how that was really to hide the embarrassment of artists canceling performances once Trump’s name was put on the building.
They’ll see the “American flag blue” Reflecting Pool and read about how brutally and rightfully Trump was mocked for his bizarre focus on aesthetics and gold fixtures and gold statues of himself.
That’s as it should be. The desire to tear down and do away with every trace of Trump will one day soon be palpable. I get it. I’ll feel it too.
But it would be the wrong move.
I want Trump voters to have daily reminders of the mistake they made
The fact that this unhinged snake-oil salesman was elected president of the United States on two occasions is not something any American should ever forget. Trump happened, and the consequences to our democracy, to our national unity, to our image around the world have been incalculable.
Once we move past the cruelty and incompetence, nothing could serve as a better reminder of this American blunder than a tacky, bright-blue Reflecting Pool in our nation’s capital. Or tourist groups breaking out in boos when Trump’s name is brought up. Or some prominent buildings that carry that same cringe-inducing name. Standing reminders of how easily the masses can be fooled, and how dangerous it would be to ever let that happen again.
Follow USA TODAY columnist Rex Huppke on Bluesky at @rexhuppke.bsky.social and on Facebook at facebook.com/RexIsAJerk.
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