The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1860 - These Liberal Morons Totally Regret Leaving Trump's America

Episode Date: October 21, 2026

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I didn't think we'd get two contenders for that title, but we do. This is a genre that is really heating up lately, even though the formula is actually pretty simple. All you've got to do is document the day-to-day activities of leftists who are attempting to. do difficult things like live on planet Earth, and then hilarity inevitably ensues. For reasons that are not entirely clear, left-wing outlets like the Boston Globe and Wired Magazine are the ones publishing these stories, probably because their desperation for clicks outweighs somehow even their political considerations. You know, it's a brutal industry, so if you have to make fun of your own side, I guess that's a step that they're willing to take.

Whatever the case, here's the headline that Wired Magazine has graced us with. Behold, what could be maybe the best news headline of the year, or again, it's in contention. It reads, quote, they fled Trump's America, now they regret it. The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful. The health care isn't free. And people can be really mean. Yes, you heard that correctly.

People actually fled the United States because Donald Trump was a lot of. elected president. So it wasn't just a handful of celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres or whoever, who bought timeshares in Greece or something. This was not a fake TikTok phenomenon, at least not entirely. Real Americans actually left the United States when Kamala Harris lost the election. By one estimate in the first quarter of 2025, when Trump took office for his second term, the number of U.S. migrants increased by 100% year over year. The UK saw a, more residency applications from the U.S. in early 2025 than they'd ever recorded since they first started keeping track of it in 2004. So there was a real, if statistically insignificant exodus

here, totaling thousands of people. Some Democrats, you know, actually went through with this. They didn't just, it wasn't just an empty threat. They really did it. Of course, if only, our only regret is that a lot more of them did not do it. And now, sort of like a child who, who realizes that Candyland is actually a pretty horrible place, you know, because a candy-only diet would kill you faster than eating nothing at all. For reasons that are beyond the scope of this podcast, we'll get into it some other time. These leftists are melting down in large numbers. They haven't been gone for very long, but they're already making their way back to the United States with their tails between their legs. Of course, we shouldn't let these people come back.

they effectively renounced their citizenship, and we should act accordingly. But according to Wired Magazine, as of right now, many of these leftists are planning a return to the United States. And I guess they'll be allowed to come. We should pull the drawbridge up. You know, you can't, too late, sorry. But apparently we're not. So here's how the article begins. Quote, in the autumn of 2024, Annie was ready for something new.

She was living in the southern United States when her husband received an unexpected a job offer that would move them to a town just outside London. They were in their 20s with no kids. We wanted to take a risk, she says, while researching their new destination on Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram. Great places to go to research where you're going to live. Annie found Americans eager to explain how enchanting life in the British suburbs could be, all the benefits of a small town, just a short train ride away from one of the biggest cities in the world. The more she read, the sunnier her expectations about the UK's healthcare system, social culture, and European transportation system became. They moved before the end of the year, but the reality of life

in the UK was dramatically different to what she imagined. There are huge misconceptions about access to quality health care standard of living. The quality of life is significantly lower than in the U.S., she said, citing the challenges she experienced with the National Health Services maternity care, having moved while pregnant with her first child, as well as the lack of disposable income in Britain, thanks to lower salaries. Things in the UK that are considered luxury items are very common in America, like a dishwasher and dryer, she adds. Annie says she experienced a high amount of anti-American sentiments straight away. I found it particularly surprising how people feel so comfortable mocking my accent and culture, even in a workplace environment. She says, the UK is very much a

place of, it is what it is, but as Americans, we're taught to always improve and strive for better things. Annie and her husband now have an exit plan for summer next year. So shocking. We're trying to decide on something as life-changing as moving to a new country, and they researched it on TikTok and Instagram. She mentions that a dishwasher and dryer are considered luxury items in the UK, which is true, as shocking as it might be for we Americans to consider, only around half of British households have a tumble dryer,

while roughly two-thirds have a dishwasher, and they mostly go unused because the owners can't afford the electricity to run them very often. But the bigger luxury, by far, is air conditioning, or air con, as they call it in the UK. And I had to look up the statistics on this and double-check them because it's truly hard to believe,

especially as such an avid fan of air conditioning myself. As I said before, it's my favorite invention of all time. If I could only keep one invention of the last five thousand years, it would be that. But in the UK, according to most surveys, only around two to eight percent of homes have some form of air conditioning. Yes, two to eight percent. And you can see the figures there, which are from a paper that was published by researchers at University of College London earlier this year. So this data is up to date. This is not data from like 1947, which then it could be excused. Now, this is from like now. They've some. They've

Seven different surveys, and all of them show AC ownership between 2 and 8 percent, with one outlier at 19 percent, which is still shockingly low. This is despite the fact that this past summer, half of all homes in Europe were exposed to extremely high temperatures. And by some estimates, more than a third of typical homes in the UK are prone to overheating. This is from an article published in Politico earlier this year, quote, cash-strapped Europeans are struggling to keep their homes cool as the continent's summers get hotter. A major new survey has found. More than 38% of the 27,000 respondents to a continent-wide poll published Wednesday said they couldn't afford to keep their house cool in the summer, while nearly 40% of well-off households invested in AC or fans, just over 20% of cash-strapped Europeans did the same.

Nearly half of renter said they were unable to afford to keep their homes cool compared to 29% of homeowners. As a result, some 60% of tenants said they had felt too hot at home at least once over the past five years versus just over 40%. of owners. So leaving aside the global warming propaganda, the fact still remains that, you know, these people are in sweltering conditions and don't have air conditioning. This is a, you know, that's a type of discomfort. And I'm an American. So, you know, these are the, apparently the privileges that we have as Americans that I

can say that I, that's one type of physical discomfort I will not tolerate. I'm not going to be hot inside a building. as an American, I can't even conceive of that. You're hot inside a building? How is that even possible? Turn the AC on. This should be a problem we've eradicated, like polio, but not in Europe. This is a level of poverty that is truly foreign to most Americans.

And if you listen to how they talk about air conditioning on the BBC, which is the British state broadcaster, it's like stepping into another dimension. There's a lot of denial. There's a lot of commiserating. They're sweltering hot, they're dying of heat, they're sweating, they're gross, and they're trying to convince themselves that they're okay with it. And it gets very bizarre. Watch this.

How did air conditioning become part of the culture wars? When you walk anywhere in the United States in the heat of the summer, pretty much any shop or building is chilly, freezing even. In the United States, air conditioning has become expected, not just in shops or workplaces, but also in homes. Nearly 90% of US homes have AC. But it's far less common in Europe, which has been experiencing record-breaking temperatures this summer, especially in France, where the question over whether to have air conditioning or not have air conditioning has sparked a pretty fierce political debate, which has reached boiling point. You sleep with your windows open because you most likely don't have air conditioning. And the feeling of being in Paris in this summer is the feeling of listening and hearing all of your neighbors and all the things that they're doing as you try to go to sleep. So sometimes they're cooking, sometimes they're arguing, sometimes they're snoring.

A lot of the time they're having sex. Find it charming. Yeah. Well, yes and no. It's charming for a very short period of time and then it gets a bit much. And for the first time, the leader of the Green Party in France, is a woman called Marine Tonnes. She has started saying that the situation is so serious that air conditioning needs to be part of the solution, which is not something you would have expected just a few years ago. And it's been a kind of whole political dinged on ever since then, really. I wonder, Tristan, what do people in France then think of the U.S. and how Americans are addicted to really cold indoor spaces in the summer?

Yes, we Americans are addicted to really cold indoor. spaces in the summer. That's an actual sentence that was uttered on the British state broadcast. For whatever reason, Americans have this bizarre obsession with not sweating profusely or suffering heat strokes when we're sitting on our couch in the summer. Really hard to explain, but that's just the way we are. You know, other things Americans are addicted to include like running water, having money in our bank accounts, being able to see the doctor without waiting 50 months for an appointment. Maybe one day we'll break the habit and become just like Europe where everyone's too poor to be addicted to anything except, I guess, alcohol and perpetual resentment. I personally will wear the label. I am addicted to air conditioning. I'm addicted to cold indoor spaces in the summer.

I demand that any space I go into if it's indoors must always be 68 degrees all the time. I will not endure a temperature above 68 degrees, especially in the summer. I won't endure it. I won't have it. And anyone who says, oh, you're going to kill the planet. Well, I don't believe that, but even if I am, okay, that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make. That is a, you know, there are tradeoffs in life. And if I have to sacrifice the health of the entire planet so that I can be comfortable in my living room, I will do it. Okay, I don't think it's that selfish.

By the way, the other amusing thing about the clip is that it's filmed inside an air condition studio. So, you know, they're sitting there and telling everyone that we're, you know, the, you know, we're addicted to air conditioning as a way of making these poor Europeans feel better about their lot in life. They want to make air conditioning seem like this, some, you know, some kind of like bizarre luxury that serves no purpose. They want to make air conditioning seem like, you know, it's like having your own private jet. But why would you need that?

Even though that also. Like, if I could have one of those, I totally would. And meanwhile, the BBC is, you know, definitely paying to cool that studio in the summer. So you see, if you're worried. wealthy or you work for the government, you get AC. But if you're poor, you're told that if you want AC, then you probably suffer some kind of mental illness. Actually, towards the end of this segment, which went on for around 20 minutes for some reason, some reality did begin to creep in when they realized how utterly pathetic their status quo really is. Watch. If you look back over the

last couple of decades. One statistic I saw from the UN was something like 489,000 people have died as a result of heat-related deaths. I found that figure shocking. 489,000 people. That's nearly half a million people dying from heat. Every single year, that is. Every single year. That's huge. I was so shocked to read that. You know, of all those heat-related deaths, believe it or not, Europe accounts for a significant percentage of the total, more than 175,000 people. The United Nations report that, quote, a staggering 175,000 people die from heat-related causes every year in Europe. So a huge number of people are dying in Europe every year because of heat-related causes, far more than the United

States, which barely has any of those kinds of deaths. These people are lecturing us about being addicted to being cold. I mean, it's impossible to parody. Put this in context. That's vastly more Europeans die from heat-related causes in a typical year, and then Americans die from all gun-related causes put together. Less than 50,000 Americans die because of guns every year. And meanwhile, Europe is losing 175,000 just to heat. They're losing it to something that they could solve with an air conditioning unit. So for all they're pontificating about gun violence and school shootings,

they're losing far more people to warm weather. I mean, it's staggering. These are not abstract figures. The stories coming out of Europe are truly disturbing. On Monday, we talked about how France is rioting because no one can afford anything, and because of all the migrant hordes they've allowed in. But if anything, I undersold how terrible the living conditions are. This is from an article in The Guardian this summer, quote, living in a sweltering seventh floor flat on a concrete housing estate south of Paris,

Samira said she was feeling desperate as France experienced its highest temperatures on record this week. Yesterday I sat down and cried. I thought I'm going to die. So the 35-year-old single parent and former building caretaker, her flat is like millions of apartments in France poorly insulated and lacking an outside window shutters. And of course, her apartment is lacking in air conditioning as well. This is just how these people live. Day after day.

It's not a choice. All of them would prefer to have air conditioning, but they can't afford it. There are very few jobs, and the jobs that do exist simply don't pay anywhere near what do in the U.S. To give just one example, the national median pay for a nurse in the United States is $97,000 gross. In France, it converts to around $40,000. So you take a massive pay cut in terms of your salary. Meanwhile, their residential electricity costs are much higher in France, 65% higher than low-cost states like Texas or Louisiana. Gas prices are much higher, too, around double what you'd pay at the pump in the U.S. A lot of reasons for this discrepancy,

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New York after three years in Spain and Edinburgh. She says she had few expectations of her life in Scotland and wasn't glossy-eyed about Europe, but was surprised and delighted by how educated and intellectually curious everyone was. However, when it came to work, she found the slowness to be a drawback. Something I take it for granted, is the American outgoingness and default to action, where the question is, how can we collaborate? She explains. Generally speaking, I also found that the American work style, for better or worse, moves much faster and can get to a yes or no in less time. This was a similar reality for Josh, another American immigrant, who asked to remain completely anonymous, citing concerns about backlash.

He moved to Berlin in 2003, in part anticipating what might happen at the 2024 election. He had even lived in Germany before, spoke German, and had friends in Berlin. But his expectations, particularly when it came to his career, didn't align with reality. Finding work was so hard, and the endless bureaucracy had grown worse since I'd left, he tells Wired. I missed the friendlier people, freedom of speech, and ease of daily life in the U.S. I thought that British politeness existed as it does in movies, Andy says. But unfortunately, the reality is that present-day British culture is very individualistic, as well as without the sense of charity and helpfulness that many parts of American culture value.

She says she had negative experiences with the NHS maternal care compared to the smooth experience of her private health insurance in the U.S. It did expect it to cost anything. I pay huge amounts of taxes and an immigration surcharge to access the NHS services, so no, the health care is not free health care. She also expected train travel to be low cost based on what she'd read about Europe, despite the extortionate train prices and terrible service quality. being one of the biggest political conversations in the UK.

What's especially funny about this passage is that in all likelihood, this woman was reading about Europe's cool magazines in Wired, rather reading about their cool trains in Wired magazine itself. Back in 2020, Wired published an article claiming that, quote, Europe is ushering in a new golden era of train travel. The article claimed that 2020 will be the year that we fall in love with train travel again and stated that train fever is gripping the country of Sweden. The article said that the train craze would soon spread across Europe

and that it would be increasingly easy to book rail tickets across borders a key barrier for many travelers. And WIREC concluded by comparing train travel to flying on a plane and declared that train travel is a clear winner. Fast forward six years and now Wired is publishing articles about these left-wing Americans who got the idea that train travel would be viable. in Europe? Where could they have possibly gotten that idea? It's a mystery. We'll never know the answer. Meanwhile, all of these poor saps who were conned into moving to Europe by outlets like Wired are desperately

trying to undo their mistake. They're realizing why in European countries, it takes something like 13 months to approve construction on every new factory. And to be clear, that's not construction time. That's just time to approve construction. And meanwhile, in the United States, it takes around 80 days. You know, we are simply a, which is still too long, but we're simply a much better run, more motivated, more competent country. And there's no country in Europe that can compare at all. And this is why whenever you go online and try to, you know, say any of this, you get dogpiled by unemployed Europeans who spend all day on Reddit and are in a really bad mood because they don't have air conditioning. They're just like typing furiously on their keyboard and sweating and it's gross. This again from the Wired article, quote, on subreddit's dedicated to these kinds of discussions

like expats going to Spain, American expats UK, and a mayor exit. You can now find a number of stories about difficulties building a new community, trouble finding work, icier cultural norms compared to the open friendliest of America, and sometimes a higher than expected European cost of living. Many posts now feature people asking for a new kind of advice. is it okay for me to miss or even want to move back home? The exposure usually met with a huge amount of backlash. Commenters are quick to imply that the poster might be

must be right-wing and privileged. Ironically, many times they parrot the right-wing notion that they probably aren't trying hard enough to assimilate into their new country. When one person recently said they badly missed their community of friends in a blue city and a blue state, considering moving back, the majority of top comments agreed. The user was insane.

insane. I went looking for this threat on Reddit, and sure enough, it's exactly the cesspool that Wired described. Here's a sampling of the replies this guy received, simply for asking if he should move back to the United States. He's simply wondering, he's simply saying, oh, the United States is a more pleasant place to live and more affordable in every single possible way. So should I consider that maybe I should move back? And here's what people said. Sadly, it really depends on how well you score on the family guy color chart card test. Honestly, right now with Trump and everything, yes, that is insane. Yes, you are insane. Yes, that is insane to move willingly into a budding fascist dictatorship. You know, there's a handful of people who tried to

offer a more nuanced take. But in general, this is a lot of people. is what you get on Reddit. People are looking for ways to rationalize their disastrous decisions to live in Europe. So they'll berate anyone who even suggests moving to the United States. Misery loves company and all that kind of thing. You also see tons of posts where these Europeans will say something like, salary isn't everything as a way of arguing that they're allegedly free health care and other perks make up for it. But the thing is, the salaries in Europe are so low and the taxes are so high that actually it's not even. even a close call. I've spent years working on shows, books, films, other projects. Every one of

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I cannot think of a less appealing tradeoff than that. It's the worst deal imaginable. Hey, you know, the bad news is you're going to make less money. But look, here's the good news. When it comes to taxes, they're also higher. So, yeah. You know, there's actually a statistic called household net adjusted disposable income that measures this. It looks at your household income after taxes adjusted.

for cost of living and adds in the value of things like free health care. And even under this metric with the UK getting full cash credit for their health care, the typical American citizen has around 50% more purchasing power than someone living in Britain. And that's why if the UK were a state, it would rank dead last in the country in terms of living standards. And by the way, the health care in the UK is obviously much worse than our health care in the United States. It's slower. The doctors are less competent. There's fewer doctors.

and diagnostic machines, et cetera. So they're paying more, much more for less. And the healthcare system in the United States needs to be better also. There's plenty of problems here. But the thing is, the healthcare system in the U.S. gets worse exactly to the degree that it begins more and more to resemble Europe. So no matter how you slice it, Europe is a catastrophe of a continent. So you have to ask, what kind of person would dilute himself into thinking otherwise?

was. Well, the Wired article concludes on this note with an anecdote about a guy named Nick, and this paragraph belongs in a museum. It says, quote, what's happening in the U.S. is also happening everywhere now, to the point I'm even a little hesitant in what I say to you or anywhere online, says Nick, an art director from New York are relocated to Poland, in part because of right-wing populism in the U.S. He moved with his Polish wife to Krakow, where they have a young child, but despite these personal ties, it's kind of difficult to adjust to the culture and bureaucracy. Now Nick feels trapped in Europe, where he says the politics aren't much better, conceding that Poland both politically and culturally has strong right-wing popularity. As a few

months ago, Josh is back living in the U.S., where he says he feels happier and finally accepted and at home. In retrospect, he wonders if he got caught up in the frenzy of discourse when he chose to live in the first place, leave in the first place. Once I was in Germany and had some distance from the situation, U.S., he says, I felt perhaps I had overreacted. Okay, so the art director is trying to escape right-wing politics, and he ends up in Poland. It's like if you don't like the rain, so you decide to move to Seattle. Did he get put on the wrong plane somehow? Like, is this like the kid from home alone?

How does that happen? Unfortunately, the article doesn't explain. And that's too bad because we really need a feature-length documentary about this guy's life. need to study his decision-making process in great detail so that future generations can learn how to do the exact opposite of everything he's ever done. We'll probably never get this documentary because as of right now he's trapped in Poland, presumably without air conditioning or electricity or running water or email or the mail is sending notes back to Wire magazine through Morse code or something or telegraph, carrier pigeon. I don't know. I don't know how they

communicate. But at least Nick and Joss, the other guy they mentioned, appear to have realized that they overreacted by uprooting their lives and their families to flee to a foreign country simply because Donald Trump was elected president. Which, by the way, even if I were to agree with the premise that Donald Trump's presidency would be this catastrophe for the country, which I don't, but, like, there's going to be another election in four years. Even if you think it's a fascist dictatorship, we have elections here. So, you know, this is like kind of a permanent solution. for a, or rather a serious long-term solution for a problem that even if you see it as a problem is, you know, only going to be four years. And indeed, that's the message that Wired is clearly

sending with this article. They're doing something that almost no left-wing outlet ever does, which is to expose the hysteria and paranoia on the left and the ridiculous results that this paranoia often causes. As you'd expect, Wired subscribers who actually pay money for this content were not happy with the article. They were, they were, frothing at the mouth, sort of like New York Times readers, whatever James Rosen publishes an op-ed, exposing the truth about Watergate. But here's a top comment on the Wired article to give you an idea. It's from an American living in Italy who wanted to provide a counter example to demonstrate that things are actually going great over there. And here's what he says. Again, this is the most

upvoted comment on the article from Wired's left-wing audience. It says, quote, two years plus in Italy here from Southern California, best decision ever. I rarely find Americans wanting to return to the U.S. This article seems to focus on jobs and work. Jobs are hard to come by in Italy, so I can imagine it would be hard if you were moving here and looking for work. I do not fall into that category. That really is great. This is art. Everything's great here.

As long as you don't focus on jobs and work, which I don't have to do because I got wealthy in America before I even came here. As long as you don't need to make a living, as long as you don't need to survive, it's great here. As long as you're not worried about one of the basic necessities of living, this is fantastic. What a riveting endorsement of life in Europe. They have no jobs or air conditioning, but if you're an American who's independently wealthy, well, you can have a lot of fun, living like a full-time tourist. And isn't that what matters? I mean, never mind the fact that if you're a wealthy person, you can enjoy yourself anywhere.

I mean, well, almost anywhere. I wouldn't go to Somalia. But if you're a wealthy person, most places on earth that are at least above third world level, and even some that are below it, if you're wealthy, you know, you might be able to have a good time. It's got to be very selective about where you go in those places. So that doesn't really tell you much about Italy is the point. And I saw a conversation along these lines that I'll close with from a lawyer named Allison Soman. And here's what she wrote.

Quote, I worry that tourism and travel serves people ill here. Yes, it's good to go to Paris or London and see civilizational masterpieces. On the other hand, Americans staying in Europe often stay in the most beautiful and richest sections of a city, eating in lovely restaurants and living a life that's not at all representative of how even relatively well-off Europeans actually live. Seeing how actual middle-class people live abroad was eye-opening for me. This is an important point because it's extremely easy for Americans to fall in. into this trap, they might go on a vacation or study abroad or whatever and never see what the reality of life in these European hellholes is really like. A professor named Tim Hamilton

responded with this and said, quote, yes, that's like visiting my wife's family in Romania. Her dad's an engineer and they live in an apartment with a tiny portable washing machine that has to be hooked up to the sink. No AC, no dryer, although they're in a dry climate, so a drying room works. Soaman then recounted her experience in Europe. more than two decades ago, said, quote, did a Dartmouth study abroad program in France in spring 2002. My host family's father had a good job in something involving computer engineering. Mom stayed at home with their then three young kids. The washing machine and dryer they had was shockingly primitive, such that I wound up basically hanging up most of my clothes to dry. They also

had difficulty affording proteins like fresh meats or fish, such that I dropped from five feet, about 100 pounds to about 85 by the end of the semester, very different standard of living than what I was expecting. This is an overwhelmingly common sentiment for Americans who have actually spent a significant amount of time in Europe. The upshot is that you could probably change the political views of millions of Americans if you expose them to the living standards that these people are dealing with overseas. Right now in America, there's a major political party that campaigns on the idea, that more government spending is the solution to our problems. And then all over Europe, countries that spend all of their money on social services,

countries like France, are falling apart. They're descending into riots. They have the highest amount of government spending on social services of any country in the world. And it's still not enough for them. You know, even if you're not a political person and even if you despise the Republican Party, you have a moral obligation to vote against this ideology in two weeks. it simply cannot spread any further. The world needs a lot, you know, needs at least one country where people can still afford to eat their homes and turn on the dryer every now and then,

and the air conditioning. And as everyone knows, even the editors of Wired Magazine, a vote for the party of Abdul al-Said and Ilhan Omar is a vote to bring America down to Europe's level. And then below that to Africa's level. You know, it's a vote to turn everyday essentials, the things we all take for granted into luxuries. And if there's a cause for optimism in all of this,

it's that no matter how much you support the Democrat Party, the moment you spend any real amount of time in Europe, or even do any amount of research into what's going on there, you'll agree with everything that we're saying right now. You know, the entire continent is a shining example of what not to do. all we have to do regardless of our politics is pay attention to it so I'll do with a show today thanks for watching thanks for listening

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