shock: white house won<u+2019>t comment on obama <u+201c>plan<u+201d> to leave country if trump elected oct 29, 2016 previous post 




a number of americans have promised to leave the united states if gop presidential nominee donald trump wins the november election. 




while president barack obama has himself never issued such a pledge, the way his white house press secretary responded monday to a question about his post-election plans suggested that perhaps he intended to leave as well. 




white house press secretary josh earnest took a direct question from a reporter about whether or not obama himself would leave the county if trump wins in november <u+2014> but he gave anything but a direct answer. 




<u+201c>he<u+2019>s working very hard to make sure that nobody has to leave the country as a result of an electoral outcome that the president doesn<u+2019>t support,<u+201d> press secretary josh earnest said monday during a news briefing on air force one, as reported by politico . 




by no means was that statement an admission of anything; it was, however, a clear dodge. the question was whether or not obama intended to leave were trump elected president. instead of offering a direct answer, earnest seemingly justified the fears felt by anyone who did plan to leave. 




is the president himself among those paranoid americans riddled with fear over the gop candidate<u+2019>s potential presidency? this line of thinking might sound conspiratorial, but what the president himself said later that evening on <u+201c>jimmy kimmel live!<u+201d> only bolstered this perception. 




<u+201c>there<u+2019>s something different about the way trump has operated in the political sphere,<u+201d> obama said, according to the washington examiner . <u+201c>i ran against mccain, against romney. i thought i could do a better job, but they<u+2019>re both honorable men. and 




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shock: white house won<u+2019>t comment on obama <u+201c>plan<u+201d> to leave country if trump elected
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