Why super-rich Americans are fleeing to the UK after Trump’s re-election | What's the Context?

Trump’s election victory was widely seen as a boon for America’s top one per cent, but not all of them welcomed the return of the Don. Some of them are fleeing their native America, and choosing the UK as their sanctuary, says Ali Lyon. Tom Ford and Ellen DeGeneres have plenty in common. As well as both being open and proud members of the LGBT community, they have spent much of their careers in Los Angeles, mixing in the West Coast glitterati circles with Hollywood movie stars and tech billionaires. At 63 and 66 respectively, they hit adulthood in a swashbuckling incarnation of America, whose superiority was unquestioned, and in which they felt the arc of history, to paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr., always bent towards progress. Get more on the story 👇 https://www.cityam.com/the-trump-effect-why-some-us-super-rich-are-blighty-bound/ Get more of City AM 👇 🌐 http://www.cityam.com X(formerly Twitter): http://twitter.com/CityAM Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cityam Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/city_am LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/cityam Produced by: Ali Lyon, Larissa Howie, Joseph Curay Teneda