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Tommy Lee says he will leave the US if Donald Trump wins a second term in office next month.
The Mötley CrĂŒe drummer was born in Greece and moved to the US when he was just a year old.
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When asked what he would do if Trump was president for four more years, he told The Big Issue: âDude, I swear to God if that happens then Iâm coming over to visit the UK – Iâm out of here. Iâll go back to my motherland, go back to Greece and get a house on one of the islands.â
The drummer continued: “The thing that stings the most is that I feel like weâre embarrassing. I feel like people in Europe and the rest of the world look at America and think: ‘What the fuck are you guys doing over there? Stop voting for celebrities and get someone real to run the country’.â
Lee is the latest person in a growing line of artists and celebrities to have voiced their fears about what might happen if Trump gets a second term.
David Byrne and Spike Lee recently expressed their concerns. “Iâm scared about the election,” the former said. “Just the other day, I started reaching out to some voting organisations, because I want to see if it makes sense for me to go to, say, Pennsylvania to get people in a swing state to vote, and to make sure that everybody who wants a mail-in ballot gets one. I think Iâll do it.”
Lee added: “This guy [Trump] is going to do anything to win. Itâs going to be skullduggery, shenanigans, subterfuge. And also, I feel that if we donât come out to vote in the numbers we need for a landslide thatâs not in his favour, heâs going to contest the election. I donât think heâs going to want to leave the White House. This thing is not a lock. I donât care what the polls say.”
Aloe Blacc also said that Trump will turn into an authoritarian leader if he is elected for a second term in the White House, while the widow of country legend John Prine branded the US President a “fucking idiot” after the American musician died of coronavirus earlier this year.
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