Anyone cancelling their trips/holidays to USA

[Petuniaspetal]

Have to be honest since trump won i wasn't going anyway. But anyone cancelling or going elsewhere?
I have a big birthday this year, I would go to the garbage dump rather than support America,/musk in any way. I know therwmis at least half of America that doesn't.support this shxt and for them I am sorry but for the republicans too spineless and self interested to resist their dictator.trump...not one iota of sympathy for the rising prices loss of Medicaid or medicare.

YABU ..to cancel/Not go
YANBU...wouldn't touch it with a bargepole

No, I can’t see why she would do that either but it’s a free country.

I don't think it's comparable. Brexit was a largely a domestic policy with internal repercussions. Not shifting alliances with authoritarian regimes and putting an entire continent at security risk, and threating friends and allies of hostile takeover. Just because many Americans did not vote for this administration is no reason to keep supporting their economy while Trump is trying to hit other countries' economies through tariffs and threats, possibly even the UK's.

But almost the money ends up in the US economy.

No thanks, better spent on our own and our allies.

We were going to go next year, but we're not now. Not when they just decimated an already understaffed air traffic control, not to mention all the other crucial government departments. Not when they appear to have actively campaigned for the return of the piece of shit sex offender that is Andrew Tate. Not with what they are doing in the military with transgender people (and I consider myself GC - but that's just an unnecessary witch hunt). Not with their attitudes to women - it's an overused trope but they are getting uncomfortably close to handmaid's tale territory. Not when their leader is not only a climate change denier, but appears to be shaping policy in favour of actively damaging the environment. We'd have been wanting to visit at least one national park, but after Trump/Elon just fired thousands of National Park workers and the people that fight forest fires, I'm not sure how much of it will be left.

I have a Dsis in a very Democrat E coast state, so dh and I may well go in September. You wouldn’t find me in any of the redneck, Trump-loving areas though.

It’s a beautiful and varied country, and the people are warm and welcoming. I’ve been many times before but don’t fancy it at the moment.

Will travel elsewhere and return to the US when it’s a little less crazy.

I wouldn’t go to the US at the moment if there was any chance I could be pregnant while there.

I've needed medical and surgical treatment for a missed miscarriage before, and wouldn’t want to risk being denied medical care.

Yep, this is one of the most ludicrous hysterical threads I’ve read on MN in a while.

Around 3.9 million Brits visit the USA each year. Obviously some for business - it’s estimated around 42% of arrivals are work related. So maybe some of the 2.2 million going for holidays might think again? Weaning people off Florida and Disney would be a start. Won’t happen though because the pull of the USA is too great and people lack imagination to find alternatives.

Anyone who buys a Tesla now is mad. Many other very decent options. Although I’d avoid Chinese too! Trump complains about lack of USA car sales in EU. I can see why. Maybe he should sell them to Russia.

Do whatever you want OP. Honestly, no one cares. As a US citizen I will be continuing to visit regularly and if there are fewer visitors crowding the planes and attractions when I get there - great! We loved visiting the during the pandemic for the same reason - no one else there meant a nice, peaceful experience for us.

After the White House performance surely Americans are waking up to the reality of having a bully as President?

Our trip includes Canada and the US east coast. Most of the states we’ll be visiting did not vote for Trump.

That's a sad and selfish way of thinking. I am certain it affects all those businesses that rely on tourism, and they do care, as the pandemic proved. Many small tourism businesses and restaurants that closed during the pandemic never reopened. But as long you were happy.

Personally I think everyone should make their feelings known and vote with their feet by boycotting the US and anything from the US. A peaceful method to make the point.

Trump is a bully and has zero moral compass. The relationship between him and Putin is suspicious, makes me suspect Putin has something on Trump.

Trump is looking to profit from the Ukraine war, how is that acceptable?

The US treated the UK appallingly during the second world war for its own gain, seems history is repeating itself.

I think I would avoid going. Not as part of some Big! Principled! Boycott! but just because I think I'd find being in the US and knowing I was surrounded by many many people who support this crap to be terribly depressing and frustrating and I'd rather not feel that way on a holiday, which is supposed to be a fun experience.

I think visitor numbers are likely to fall long-term, actually, just because the US is so expensive compared with everywhere else. Not good value for money at all these days. Eating-out and hotels are simply eye-wateringly expensive.

I have an amazing holiday booked in September, first NYC, then an Alaskan cruise from Seattle. We have six days at the end before we fly back from Seattle and DH and I have decided to spend the time in Canada and spend our holiday money there.

I paid £330 per night for a five star hotel in DC last summer. Tell me where I can get a five star hotel room in London for a family of four for that amount?!

Oh give over do! You want me to deprive US restaurants of business because YOU like don't the US president? I have family there who are elderly and who need and want to see us. Trump doesn't care if we go or not and he won't get any money or any kudos from our visit. That's why the OP is being ridiculous and her protest is pointless. By all means, holiday where you want. I won't go to the UAE or Israel/Palestine. But I don't flatter myself that anyone cares where I choose to holiday!

I’m an American living in the UK - most of my family and friends (New England, very anti-trump) are horrified by this administration. But also completely understand why people wouldn’t want to visit the USA right now. My mom is cheering on the current Canadian boycott - why should Canadians spend their money in the US when Trump has been so insanely disrespectful about Canada & willing to harm their economy? And we’re from a state that very much benefits from Canadian tourism.

It’s a mistake to paint all 340 million Americans with the same broad brush. It’s a massive country and there are tens of millions of people who oppose Trump and trumpism. But I don’t think you’re wrong to deprioritise visiting the states right now. Most of the Americans I know wish they could escape too.

Now you talk about depriving businesses, but earlier you said no one cares. You seem confused. It's not about depriving the US, but at a time when tariffs are going to affect local economies, I'd think about supporting closer to home first. I don't personally care where you go or what you do, but as a whole where money is spent matters, despite your dismissal of it as unimportant. But you do seem to agree now.

DS's(15) school runs a few trips across the years including a multi year ski trip usually to Italy & a 6th form US trip to NYC & Washington. DS skipped the ski trip and was hanging on for the US trip (can't afford both). He now doesn't want to go at all - both because he wouldn't feel safe & as a point of principal.

I'm not confused at all - you were the one saying it would be good to deprive businesses of money. I'm saying that I'm not really going on holiday anyway, I'm visiting family, and we like to eat out while we're there, so we will. If you didn't agree with the UK government would you boycott eating out? Of course you wouldn't.

There are much more interesting cities here in Canada than those in the US.

That's not what you said. You said it was great during the pandemic when there wasn't anyone around, and less people around the better for you. And that no one cares. I pointed out that this way of thinking was selfish. You seemed to have completely changed your tune now. Perhaps you should re-read your "nobody cares" comment.