Did Jane Fonda Say She Would Transfer to Canada if Trump Wins 2024 Election?

In December 2023, a number of posts on X claimed that actor Jane Fonda mentioned she would transfer to Canada if former U.S. President Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.

We discovered no proof that Fonda ever made the above assertion.

Not one of the posts we noticed supplied a supply for the quote, nor did they specify when she supposedly mentioned these phrases. The alleged assertion might have utilized to Trump’s potential election in 2016, or potential reelection in 2020 or 2024, however no trace was given as to its timing.

Many responses to the above publish indicated the authors believed it was a legit quote of Fonda’s, with some referring to her by the derogatory nickname “Hanoi Jane” — referring to the notorious moment in 1972 when she posed atop an anti-aircraft gun in North Vietnam whereas protesting the Vietnam Conflict and talking out towards American insurance policies within the area.

We appeared throughout information protection of statements Fonda made about Trump prior to now. Previous to Trump’s election, she didn’t talk about transferring to Canada. In February 2016, she defined in an interview why she joined a bunch of celebrities within the Stop Hate Dump Trump marketing campaign, an initiative that criticized the media and political establishments for “normalizing” Trump’s “hate speech, misogyny, Islamophobia and racism.”

She said concerning Trump’s feedback on Muslims: “I do know him, and I do not dislike him significantly till he begins speaking that method. What’s actually unhealthy about it’s that it makes our battle towards terrorism, towards ISIS all that tougher.”

Fonda added that Trump had given her cash for her nonprofits.

Proper after Trump’s election in 2016, Fonda spoke about her efforts to debate local weather coverage with him by getting his daughter Ivanka Trump to rearrange a gathering. Nevertheless, Ivanka by no means obtained again to her on the matter.  

In November 2019, Fonda criticized the then-president’s local weather insurance policies on CNN, saying, “I do not hate him. I really feel unhappy for him. And what he is doing to the world […] is simply legal. It is simply legal. It is horrible. However there’s extra of us, and we will make a distinction.”

Nevertheless, now we have discovered no publicly out there proof that Fonda spoke about transferring to Canada if Trump was ever elected, whether or not it was in previous elections or the upcoming one in 2024. As such we fee this declare as Unproven.

In late December 2023, Snopes debunked the same rumor about actor Tom Hanks supposedly vowing to depart the U.S. if Trump will get elected.

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