Americans’ interest in leaving the U.S. has surged since Donald Trump’s reelection. The morning after his victory, Google searches on how to leave the country spiked 1,514%. A recent survey found that 17% of Americans want to move abroad within five years, with Canada as the top choice. In liberal cities, the numbers are even higher — 47% of Los Angeles residents and 35% of New Yorkers expressed interest in leaving.

Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman explains why Trump’s policies are driving record numbers to consider leaving — and why tariffs, tax cuts for the wealthy, and an intellectual brain drain could be economically disastrous for the country.

Maybe its Jews, with rising antisemitism. Maybe its LGTBQ people, as we see all sorts of protections stripped and threatened to be stripped. Maybe it’s the people that fall under the umbrella of my profession, may either be targeted or might be hurt economically by the ideas and the policies that Donald Trump is putting forward.

And what is really important to understand about this is that economically, this is not good for the United States. I know that if you say to your average MAGA, “Hey, look at these people who are moving to Europe, or wherever they’re moving…” They would go, “Oh, those sissy liberals joining the sissy Europeans. Let them go and smoke their thin cigarettes while sipping espresso outside of a cafe in Paris. We don’t want them here.” Okay, fine. That may be the case culturally, but the truth, as we know, of course, is that the brain drain the United States is experiencing, and in fact, we’re seeing it in the red states, we’ve talked about how abortion laws have pushed competent, qualified, good doctors, OBs, gynecologists, to move out of those red states. That makes the problem even worse.