Eva Longoria says Trump’s win was not why she left the US, despite sharing anxieties over his victory

By strategy of relocating her household from the United States, Eva Longoria had her reasons — they most ceaselessly had nothing to manufacture with Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, no subject in sort perception.

Days after expressing her anxieties in regards to the president-elect’s acquire at some level of an interview with Marie Claire, the “Desperate Housewives” alum took a whereas to positive the air about her switch.

“Will you please let them know I didn’t switch out of the United States as a consequence of Trump?” she told Ana Navarro at some level of a name into “The See: On the abet of the Desk” podcast on Friday. “I’ve been in Europe for nearly three years. That’s in the article, by the plan, the article says that. Other folks staunch grabbed some clickbait stuff to be divisive. Which makes me so unhappy that all the pieces you converse is steady intended to be divisive after we ought to no longer that plan at the moment.”

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“I didn’t leave as a consequence of the political atmosphere. I left because my work took me there,” she added. “I’m a proud American. I’ve continually been a proud American. Proud Texan, proud American,” Longoria continued. “I did no longer desire it to be taken that I left as a consequence of Trump — fully no longer — or as a consequence of the elections.”

In the Marie Claire article, Longoria — who splits her time between her properties in Spain and Mexico with her husband, José Bastón, and their 6-twelve months-previous son, Santiago — shared her tips put up-election.

“I would indulge in to mediate our battle continues,” she acknowledged, noting that she thinks the country is “a provoking space” with Trump’s leadership.

“I’m privileged,” she added. “I fetch to flee and hasten someplace. Most Americans aren’t so lucky. They’re going to be stuck on this dystopian country, and my dismay and disappointment is for them.”

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Recalling Trump’s victory in 2016, Longoria acknowledged she felt emotionally defeated.

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“I’ve never been depressed in my lifestyles,” she told Marie Claire. “It was once indulge in, ‘Does my vote without a doubt subject? Am I without a doubt making a distinction?’” she acknowledged. “I was once so untethered to the core of what I have confidence because I without a doubt believed in my soul that basically the most productive person wins. After which that came about, and I was once indulge in, ‘Oh, wait. The finest person doesn’t acquire.’”

Longoria smartly-known in the interview that she lived in the U.S. for her “complete grownup lifestyles.”

“Nonetheless even before [the pandemic], it was once changing. The vibe was once quite a lot of. After which COVID came about, and it pushed it over the sting. Whether or no longer it’s the homelessness or the taxes, no longer that I are looking out out for to s— on California — it staunch feels indulge in this chapter in my lifestyles is accomplished now,” she acknowledged.

In the months leading up to the 2024 presidential election, many celebrities proudly vocalized their opinions on Trump.

Whereas some showed pink meat up, others, at the side of Sharon Stone, Cher and Barbra Streisand, dangle expressed their disapproval and even threatened to leave the U.S. if he were to be elected.

“I’m completely pondering a condominium in Italy,” Stone told the Day-to-day Mail in July. “I mediate that’s an intellectual accomplish at the moment. That is one in every of the first times in my lifestyles that I’ve in fact considered anybody running for office on a platform of detest and oppression.”

In a 2023 interview with The Guardian, Cher acknowledged, “I nearly bought an ulcer the final time. If he gets in, who’s aware of? This time I will leave [the country].”

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Streisand told host Stephen Colbert that she would no longer be succesful to “are residing on this country if he turns into president,” and admitted she’d doubtlessly switch to England.

This belief of celebrities fleeing the country after an election is nothing fresh, says Doug Eldridge, founding father of Achilles PR.

“Every four years, you hear the same recycled rhetoric from celebrities. Or no longer it is turn steady into a running shaggy dog yarn at this level. Or no longer it is ‘all discuss, no stroll,’” Eldridge told Fox News Digital.

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Fox News Digital’s Caroline Thayer contributed to this put up.