Ellen DeGeneres has chalked her decision to leave the U.S. down to President Donald Trump’s re-election.

Ahead of the U.S. elections in November, DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi bought what they initially intended to be a “part-time house” in the U.K., but that all changed after Trump became president. 

“We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, ‘He got in,'” DeGeneres told a crowd at the Everyman Theatre in the southern English town of Cheltenham on Sunday, according to CNN. “And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here.'”

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