There always the pros and cons on Donald Trump's presidential win and a 1986 Nobel Prize winner for literature is certainly not a Trump fan. He just fulfilled a promise to leave the United States if Trump wins. He cut up his green card already.
According to Daily Caller, in an education conference the 82-year-old Wole Soyinka, an old Nigerian poet and playwright told Agence France-Presse that he already disengaged with the United States. The horror of Trump's win is lurking him and he immediately threw his green card and flew back to where he have always been, Soyinka said.
Days before the November 8 elections, Soyinka made a promise to cut up his green card, which provides legal residence if Trump wins the election. He just has completed a stint as a scholar at New York University.
He confirmed that the moment of announcement for Trump's win, he will cut his green card himself and will start to pack up, at a conference in London according to BBC to earlier this month. Last Thursday Soyinka said that this is not a plan to encourage other green card holders to copy him and leave the United States. He is a teacher at Harvard and Yale at the moment.
He said that he will not discourage any Nigerians or anybody to have a green card because for him it is very useful in many ways. But he certainly had enough.
Soyinka is one the few famous people in the United States who are following the pre-election season and pledged to leave the country if Trump wins. Al Sharpton, a civil right activist, and actress Amy Schumer are not of the famous people who pledged to leave the United States if Trump wins.
But according to The Daily Caller, Al Sharpton was just joking when he uttered those words and doesn't mean anything. Share you thoughts on famous people leaving the US because Trump wins.
