No, Whoopi Goldberg, Megan Rapinoe and Taylor Swift aren’t leaving the country

Media magnate Oprah Winfrey. Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. Singer-songwriters Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift.

They’re among the celebrities who  misleading social media posts claimed  left or said they’d leave the United States following President Donald Trump’s 2024 election. 

But those claims are false, and so is a new one in the same vein.  

"BREAKING NEWS," a Jan. 21 Facebook post said. "Whoopi Goldberg, Megan Rapinoe and Taylor Swift decide to leave the United States."

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The post included a link to a site titled "Truth here!" with a Jan. 21 post bearing a headline with the same claim as the Facebook post. 

The blog post didn’t mention Trump, but claimed "their decisions to leave America come amidst a backdrop of mounting social, political and economic tensions." 

We previously fact-checked and found False a claim that Swift said she was leaving the country if Trump became president, and that she moved to Canada after his victory.

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"Apple quietly removed International Women’s Day from their calendar app.”

We looked anew for credible evidence, such as public statements or news reports, that she’s leaving the country and found none. 

We also found no such evidence to corroborate the claims about Goldberg or Rapinoe. 

On Nov. 10, a Facebook account that posts fabricated stories wrote that Rapinoe was leaving the United States "after massive red wave" because she said she couldn’t "live here anymore," but the post was clearly labeled "satire."

A similar claim, that Rapinoe and Goldberg were going to leave America because they "get no respect here," also originated on a self-described satire site.

We rate claims Goldberg, Rapinoe and Swift said they’re leaving the United States False.