‘Make Dating Great Again’: For Singles Looking For Love And A Move To Canada If Trump Becomes President

Let’s be real: Dating can be a drag. Seeking a partner can become an emotional slog, and it sure doesn’t get any easier if you’re planning on moving to Canada if Donald Trump is elected president.

Luckily, now there’s a dating website that takes this into consideration. It’s called Maple Match, and its tagline promises to make “it easy for Americans to find the ideal Canadian partner to save them from the unfathomable horror of a Trump presidency.”

In other words, Americans looking to escape a Trump presidency can find a warm, loving place to shack up in Canada. Two birds with one stone. The site’s slogan, naturally, is “Make dating great again.”

According to the site’s founder and CEO Joe Goldman, it is not funded by an anti-Trump organization.

“Maple Match started as a fun idea about Americans and Canadians connecting during the admittedly disturbing possibility of a Donald Trump presidency. However, over the past few days we have seen countless Americans and Canadians tell us about the frustration they’ve experienced with current dating platforms,” Goldman told Tech Times on Monday. “After more than 35,000 hits and more than 4,500 signups in just 4 days, we are confident that Maple Match will fulfill a clear need in the dating space.”

He insisted that it is not a joke, and the site will actually connect singles.

“Donald Trump is a joke,” Goldman told Cosmopolitan. “Finding true love in a place where you can be happy is not a joke. Maple Match is very real.”

The website hasn’t matched anyone yet, as it’s currently building up its user base. Interested parties can sign up for the waitlist, though. After filling out a short profile, just click the button that states “Save me from this madness.”

While the idea might seem crazy from afar, it’s certainly tapping into a growing market. Following Trump’s Super Tuesday victories, Canada’s immigration website was overloaded with visitors.

The Washington Post’s Yanan Wang wrote:

According to Google trends, searches for “How to move to Canada” surged as Tuesday’s results came in. Simon Rogers, a data editor at Google, noted that the phrase’s search popularity had increased by 350 percent between 8 p.m. and midnight Eastern.

At midnight, the spike reached 1,500 percent.

And if Twitter is to be believed, folks are itching for just such a site.

This isn’t the first time our neighbors to the North have seen a silver lining in Trump’s recent success on the campaign trail. One enterprising Canadian launched a website advertising Cape Breton Island as a great place for Americans to flee to should Trump win the presidency. According to the website, more than a million people have visited since its launch.

Goldman told Tech Times that Maple Match will be completely operational “as soon as possible.”

Source: The Washington Post, Travis M. Andrews
Photo: Brent Lewin, Bloomberg