{"id":2656580,"date":"2026-09-09T09:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/art-garfunkel-considers-leaving-the-us-over-trump-worries-about-global-warming\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:50:16","slug":"art-garfunkel-considers-leaving-the-us-over-trump-worries-about-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/art-garfunkel-considers-leaving-the-us-over-trump-worries-about-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Garfunkel Considers Leaving the US Over Trump, Worries About Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fart-garfunkel-considers-leaving-the-us-over-trump-worries-about-global-warming%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2656580&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh content features an article discussing musician Art Garfunkel\u2019s recent comments and perspectives.Garfunkel mentions contemplating leaving the United States due to dissatisfaction with Donald Trump and political issues, highlighting concerns about global warming, political instability, and international affairs. The article provides background on Garfunkel\u2019s musical career, especially his partnership with paul Simon as part of Simon and Garfunkel, their breakup, and individual pursuits. It also satirizes Garfunkel\u2019s political opinions, criticizing his understanding of global issues and his mistaken notions about countries like Venezuela. the piece humorously and critically examines Garfunkel\u2019s comments,emphasizing that his political insights are uninformed and that his musical talents are limited.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Uh-oh, we\u2019re in real trouble now: It seems that the man who God keeps in the news to make Ringo Starr and Joey Fatone feel a bit better about being the dead weight in legendary bands is now considering decamping from the United States \u2014 all because of that dastardly Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/sep\/04\/art-garfunkel-what-a-wonderful-world-tour-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> published on Friday, Art Garfunkel says he\u2019s \u201cthinking of leaving the country\u201d because Trump is a meanie who takes over other countries, or whatever. Stop the presses, those presses that remain in operation.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who are millennials or younger \u2014 and I say this because, until I was about 10 and found out he performed the theme song for the tragically short-lived CBS sitcom \u201cBrooklyn Bridge,\u201d I actually assumed \u201cGarfunkel\u201d was the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-paul-simon-alice-quinn-honored-by-poetry-society-of-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Simon\u2019s<\/a> backing band, kind of like \u201cThe Attractions\u201d for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dave-chappelle-pulls-fast-one-snl-producers-realize-happening-delivers-monologue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elvis Costello<\/a> \u2014 Art was part of a duo who soundtracked your parents\u2019 early lives and\/or \u201cThe Graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simon then discovered he was talented and the two broke up creatively in 1970. They\u2019ve reunited several times \u2014 although not to produce new music, but to run through the old hits in concert for some big bucks. Simon has gone on to produce classic albums like \u201cGraceland\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019re the One,\u201d while Garfunkel produced\u2026 uh, the theme song to \u201cBrooklyn Bridge.\u201d Also some other music not worth mentioning, and an acting career that\u2019s equally missable.<\/p>\n<p>If you really need a primer on the much lesser half of Simon and Garfunkel, most of the article will suffice to give you a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-short-history-of-how-anthony-fauci-has-kept-failing-up-since-1984\/\" title=\"A Short History Of How Anthony Fauci Has Kept Failing Up Since 1984\">short history<\/a> of his perspective, and I won\u2019t step on its toes.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that there is one anecdote that is a great metaphor for Garfunkel\u2019s post-1970 existence \u2014 in the midst of a bout of depression after professional setbacks and personal tragedies, he decided he was going to walk across Japan in 1982 for no good reason, but ended the attempt after 12 miles. He also blames the initial breakup with Paul Simon on his focus on his acting career. This is an excuse for the split that seems far less removed from that excuse your neighbor who insists he would have gotten a Division I football scholarship if it weren\u2019t for him spraining his knee in the 8th grade keeps giving you, plausibility-wise, than it probably <em>should<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So, fast forward to the end of the piece, and we are presented with two questions any Art Garfunkel profile in The Guardian must statutorily answer: First, will there be a reunion with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-paul-simon-to-donate-festival-proceeds-to-environmental-orgs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Simon<\/a>? Second, what are your politics and why are they super-progressive?<\/p>\n<p>As for the first, yes, he met Simon for dinner last year, but \u201che doesn\u2019t wish to discuss the seemingly unlikely prospect of another tour together,\u201d the British outlet said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what I think is more interesting? Walking from western Ireland to Istanbul,\u201d Garfunkel told The Guardian. \u201cBut yes, we got together. Who knows what the future will bring? Life is a surprise. I don\u2019t know what happens next month. I don\u2019t know what happens after we die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ah, life after death: A big issue. The Guardian wants us to know that \u201cGarfunkel frets about big issues, such as global heating, the human race and those in power.\u201d Smooth transition, there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like America\u2019s position at all,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not aboard, and I\u2019m thinking of leaving the country, frankly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s real that the planet is getting warmer, that the water\u2019s rising, that so many people are starving,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Donald Trump took over Venezuela, are those the new rules? Just take over a country and run it? It\u2019s shocking, and you think: how on earth are we gonna change the presidency? But Trump won\u2019t last forever. So we\u2019ve got to hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I suppose the good news for those of us who hope to keep this national treasure is that, unless he takes up residence in San Diego or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-border-photos-expose-bidens-developing-kids-cages-situation-aoc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Paso<\/a>, there\u2019s no country he can walk to in the 12 miles it takes him before he gives up.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from this, his opining is exactly the reason why we shouldn\u2019t care what any musician thinks, politically, even if it were Paul Simon. (<em>Sen.<\/em> <em>Paul Simon<\/em> of Illinois might have been a different story, but he died in 2003. Also: probably more musically talented than Art Garfunkel, although he had better things to do with his life.)<\/p>\n<p>So Art\u2019s \u201cnot aboard\u201d with the current administration. Even in the biggest electoral blowouts in American history, there\u2019s at least 40 percent of the country that\u2019s \u201cnot aboard\u201d with the president.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats. This is not an airport and you are not a pilot. You don\u2019t have to announce your departure.<\/p>\n<p>But why depart? Well, after all, \u201cthe planet is getting warmer, that the water\u2019s rising, that so many people are starving.\u201d Except it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nyt-report-literally-undermines-massive-global-warming-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not getting warmer by much<\/a>, the water isn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-climate-czar-john-kerry-believes-global-warming-11-million-beach-front-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rising by much either<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/paul-ehrlichs-population-bomb-failure-shows-dangers-scientific-alarmism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fewer people are starving than ever<\/a>. But then, here\u2019s a guy who thinks his acting career is why the guy who recorded \u201cGraceland\u201d ditched him. (For the love of Pete, even <em>Simon<\/em> is a better actor than him, as anyone who has seen \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/aoc-celebrates-black-woman-immigrant-designed-tax-rich-dress-now-know-really\/\">Annie Hall<\/a>\u201d will attest to. I cannot belabor enough the depths of the delusions this man apparently operates under, judging by this unintentionally hilarious interview.)<\/p>\n<p>Garfunkel also seems to be about as much of an expert on Venezuela, apparently mistaking the Marco Rubio meme for real life:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rubio realizing he\u2019s going to be president of Venezuela, governor of Cuba, and the Shah of Iran. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wh5S2gpIi9\">pic.twitter.com\/wh5S2gpIi9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Antonio Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/antoniogm\/status\/2007398586246672723?\">January 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What Trump did was remove a guy who literally decided to \u201ctake over a country and run it\u201d \u2014 Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who had only been legitimately elected once and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/venezuelas-maduro-desperate-keep-power-bizarre-sounding-solution-christmas-october\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had since rigged every election<\/a> to stay in power despite the fact that he was profoundly unpopular, had reduced his nation to a failed state which also facilitated narcotrafficking.<\/p>\n<p>But then, I don\u2019t expect Art Garfunkel to be a pundit. I expect him to be Art Garfunkel. He\u2019s certainly entitled to his opinions, and \u2014 like any musician \u2014 we\u2019re entitled to tell him to just shut up and sing if those opinions are useless, reflexive, and uninformed.<\/p>\n<p>Or, in the case of Art Garfunkel, we\u2019re entitled to tell him to just shut up, period. 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