Musician Art Garfunkel says he is weighing whether to leave the United States, joining a number of high-profile figures who have voiced concerns about President Donald Trump’s administration and policies.
In an interview with The Guardian, the 84-year-old singer said he is troubled by the nation’s direction on several major issues and is considering a move abroad.
“I don’t like America’s position at all,” Garfunkel told the British newspaper. “I’m not aboard, and I’m thinking of leaving the country, frankly.”
The New York-born performer pointed to climate change, global affairs and broader political developments as sources of his unease.
“It’s real that the planet is getting warmer, that the water’s rising, that so many people are starving,” Garfunkel said in the interview, which was originally published Sept. 4.
Garfunkel also took issue with Trump’s decision to launch a military operation that led to the capture of then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Maduro faces numerous federal charges and is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.
“When Donald Trump took over Venezuela, are those the new rules? Just take over a country and run it?” Garfunkel said.
“It’s shocking, and you think, ‘How on earth are we gonna change the presidency?’ But Trump won’t last forever, so we’ve got to hope,” he added.
The singer is the latest U.S. celebrity to publicly consider relocating overseas, or to have already moved, while criticizing Trump’s presidency.
Comedian Rosie O’Donnell relocated to Ireland following Trump’s 2024 election victory. Filmmaker James Cameron, meanwhile, has long been planning a permanent move to New Zealand and has criticized Trump as he neared New Zealand citizenship.
Former daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has said Trump’s election prompted her and wife Portia de Rossi to make their stay in the United Kingdom permanent.
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“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, ‘He got in,’” DeGeneres told broadcaster Richard Bacon, according to the BBC in 2025. “And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here.’”
In August, O’Donnell returned to the United States for a weeklong guest-hosting stint on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” The 64-year-old comic then turned her attention to her new residency in Ireland.
On the Aug. 17 show, she referred to Trump as “Mango Mussolini.”
“I read that Project 2025 and said, ‘Got to get myself out of here, you know,’ and I decided to go to Ireland, a place where people are driven to drink regardless of who’s running their country,” O’Donnell said.
The celebrity relocations and threats to leave the country have drawn the attention of Democratic strategist Kaivan Shroff.
“Celebrity threats to leave the country are usually pretty easy to roll your eyes at,” Shroff told Fox News Digital. “Most never actually do — Rosie O’Donnell aside. But Garfunkel is 84 years old and has spent more than six decades as one of the most recognizable figures in American music, so this doesn’t exactly read like somebody trying to launch a political brand.”
“What’s interesting is the level of alienation he’s expressing,” he continued. “He’s looking at the country he has lived in his entire life and saying, essentially, ‘I don’t recognize our role in the world anymore.’”
Shroff told Fox News Digital that he believes Garfunkel’s comments about moving abroad are more of a political statement than a commitment to leave the country.
“The line about leaving America is obviously going to get the attention, but I don’t think that’s really what Garfunkel is saying here,” Shroff said. “He sounds genuinely disturbed by where he thinks the country is headed, particularly by the idea that the United States can simply decide the old rules no longer apply. People can disagree with his politics, but that kind of unease is hardly unique to Art Garfunkel.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Garfunkel for additional comment.
Fox News Digital’s Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.