She promised Jupiter. She’s still here. So is Trump.

The day Donald Trump announced his 2016 candidacy, Cher tweeted that she would move to Jupiter if he were elected. All caps. One emoji. No room for ambiguity. He was elected. She did not move to Jupiter. She did not move anywhere. She tweeted more. Then, in 2023, she upgraded the threat: this time she would leave Earth’s atmosphere entirely and actually leave the country. He was elected again. She did not leave. The reason, when it finally came, involved a 38-year-old boyfriend named AE Edwards. Jupiter remains unaware of any of this.

June 16, 2015 — the day Trump announced

On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower and announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States. The press largely treated the event as a punchline. Cher, for her part, treated it as a provocation requiring an immediate Twitter response.

That response included a series of tweets about Trump’s hair, his ego (“So inflated, he might as well be the Hindenburg”), and his intelligence (“Can’t come up with a hairstyle that looks human, how can he come up with a plan to defeat ISIS”). In the middle of this rant, she replied to a user who had apparently asked whether she was serious: the answer was the Jupiter tweet.

The full capitalization was characteristic. The single emoji was characteristic. The existential geography — not Canada, not Europe, not any country within conventional emigration range, but the fifth planet from the sun — was new territory, even for celebrity TDS.

“IF HE WERE TO BE ELECTED,IM MOVING TO JUPITER”

Cher (@cher), Twitter reply, June 16, 2015 — the day Trump announced his candidacy

The original Jupiter tweet — Cher (@cher), June 16, 2015

November 8, 2016 — election result; November 9, 2016 — Cher still on Earth

Donald Trump won the presidency on November 8, 2016. Cher remained in the United States. She did not relocate to Jupiter, to any other planet, or to any country on Earth as a result of Trump’s victory.

A viral blog post in 2017 claimed she had moved to Canada. PolitiFact investigated and rated the claim “False” in July 2017. Their verdict: “He won. She didn’t [leave].” PolitiFact’s rating concerned Canada specifically — Jupiter, as a destination, fell outside the fact-checking organization’s standard geographic scope.

In the years that followed, Cher continued tweeting. The tweets continued in all caps. The targets continued to include Trump, Trump’s hair, Trump’s family, Trump’s cabinet, and, on one occasion in 2019, a wish that Trump would become the “toy boy of Big Bubba” in federal prison — a tweet she subsequently deleted after public outcry, acknowledged had gone “2 Far,” and explicitly declined to apologize for.

She also, in April 2019, tweeted questioning whether Los Angeles could absorb more migrants given existing homelessness — a rare moment of overlap with Trump’s immigration position. Trump responded publicly: “I finally agree with @Cher!” Cher’s follow-up response described Trump as an “IGNORANT THUG WITH LIZARD BRAIN.” This exchange was covered by ABC News.

Guardian interview, October 2023 — “I almost got an ulcer the last time”

Seven years after the Jupiter tweet, with the 2024 presidential election approaching, Cher gave an interview to The Guardian published October 18, 2023. She upgraded her threat from interplanetary relocation to a more conventional terrestrial departure. The specific destination was not named. The commitment, she implied, was real this time.

“I almost got an ulcer the last time. If he gets in, who knows? This time I will leave [the United States].”

Cher, The Guardian, October 18, 2023

The interview was widely covered by Rolling Stone, Fox News, The Hill, Billboard, and the Washington Examiner. The framing in most reporting noted the structural similarity to her 2015 Jupiter promise and to the pledges made by Amy Schumer, Chelsea Handler, Lena Dunham, and others in 2016 who had made identical commitments and remained in the United States.

The “this time I will leave” formulation is notable. It implicitly acknowledged that the first time she did not leave — while simultaneously asserting that the pattern would not repeat. The pattern repeated.

November 2024 — Trump wins again; Cher cites her boyfriend

Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election. Cher did not leave the country. When asked about the departure she had pledged in The Guardian, the explanation that emerged concerned her relationship with Alexander “AE” Edwards, a music producer and talent manager 37 years her junior.

Edwards co-parents a young son, Slash, with model and television personality Amber Rose. The arrangement reportedly required Edwards to remain in the United States, and Cher — unwilling to relocate without him — stayed as well. The reporting on this explanation was covered by Yahoo Entertainment, The Blast, and Music Times.

The sequence was as follows: 2015, promised Jupiter; 2016, Trump won, stayed. 2023, promised to leave the country; 2024, Trump won again, stayed — citing a custody arrangement involving a child named Slash and a co-parent named Amber Rose. This is the documented record.

Nine years of documented all-caps dispatches

Between the Jupiter tweet in 2015 and the 2024 election, Cher produced a sustained body of anti-Trump social media activity that Billboard catalogued in a 2017 feature titled “Cher’s 10 Best Trump Tweets.” A representative sample of documented statements, all primary-sourced:

She is not alone in this

Cher occupies a specific position in the celebrity TDS taxonomy: the most geographically ambitious. Others promised Canada (Lena Dunham — Vancouver), Spain (Amy Schumer, Chelsea Handler), and Mexico (George Lopez). Cher promised Jupiter. In terms of commitment-to-destination ratio, the gap between Earth and Jupiter is the largest ever logged in this file.

The Hollywood Reporter’s follow-up feature “20 Stars Who Pledged to Flee the Country If Trump Was Elected: Where Are They Now?” catalogued Cher alongside Schumer, Dunham, Handler, Bryan Cranston, Neve Campbell, and others. In every documented case, the celebrity remained in the United States. In Cher’s case, she additionally returned for a second cycle and again did not depart.

The full cohort of celebrity flight risks across both 2016 and 2024 who publicly pledged departure and publicly remained numbered in the dozens. None relocated to Jupiter.

A clinical summary

On June 16, 2015, Cher promised Jupiter. Donald Trump was elected in November 2016. She stayed. She tweeted for seven more years. In October 2023, she promised to leave the country — a downgrade in destination ambition, but an upgrade in geographic realism. Trump was elected again in November 2024. She stayed. The reason given involved a boyfriend 37 years younger than her, his ex-partner Amber Rose, and a custody arrangement for a child named Slash.

In between, she deleted a tweet wishing Trump prison violence, refused to apologize, called Trump’s immigration position reasonable in one tweet and then called Trump an ignorant thug with a lizard brain when he agreed with her, and produced nine years of all-caps social media dispatches that Billboard saw fit to anthologize as a listicle.

Cher is now in her late seventies. She has had one of the most durable careers in American entertainment history. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and a Cannes Film Festival award. None of that is the story here. The story is that she promised Jupiter, he won, and she stayed — twice.

Jupiter is 365 million miles away at its closest. Getting there was never the realistic option. But neither, apparently, was keeping a promise.

“IF HE WERE TO BE ELECTED,IM MOVING TO JUPITER”

Cher, June 16, 2015 — she remains in the United States, 3,285 days and counting