Donald Trump has Scott Baio and Kid Rock on his side. Picture: AP.

That’s if every Clinton supporter who has declared they are quitting America should Trump get into the White House heads down under.

As the election campaign has ramped up this year, so have the celebrity endorsements for the leading candidates, with the Democrats traditionally attracting more music and acting superstars than the Republicans.

But with Donald Trump in charge — and a raft of former Celebrity Apprentices in the wings — he hardly needs celebrity oxygen to fuel his hype machine.

He can count on the support of dozens of entertainers, sports stars and socialities including former Happy Days star Scott Baio, rockers Ted Nugent, Gene Simmons and Kid Rock, actors Kirstie Alley, Gary Busey and Lou Ferrigno and country legend Loretta Lynn.

He definitely can’t count on Ice Cube, who tweeted his outrage at a fake endorsement released by supporters of the billionaire businessman this week.

It showed the rapper and actor wearing a Trump T-shirt and Cube wasted no time hitting social media to protest the unsanctioned use of his image.

“Stealing endorsements is not how you become the president of the United States, homie. Leave my name out ya mouth ...,” he tweeted.

American R & B superstar Usher, who has been vocally and visibly Team Hillary, is only half joking when he says he would consider moving his family to Australia if Trump wins the vote.

A one-time Sexiest Man Alive, Usher would no doubt find a warm welcome here, with his latest single Crash reaching the top 10 with gold sales ahead of new record Hard II Love.

“Here’s the reality. If I had a retirement plan, it would be to live in Australia or New Zealand. I have always enjoyed it there,” he says.

Usher has been a longtime Clinton supporter performing at the Clinton Foundation's Decade of Difference concert in 2011. Picture: AFPSource:AFP

When pressed about the reality of such a plan, Usher insists he is serious and not just issuing the old “I love your country” platitudes.

“Why not? If Trump becomes my president ... I should start creating a getaway plan,” he says, laughing.

“I don’t wish for it, I don’t wish to even utter his name. I would prefer to focus on the important stuff which is engaging our young millennials to vote and involved in the conversation of what our country will become as a result of dismantling all of the work of the last eight years.

“I really do feel that Hillary Clinton understands keeping the integrity of that and the onus on her to adhere to the needs of this democratic idea and concept of who we are as a country.

“Better that than the notion that the opposer feels that we should go back. How is it ever been great to go backwards?”

Barbra Streisand also threw out the prospect of leaving a Trump-run America and emigrating to Australia if we would have her.

But the same people probably said the same thing when George W Bush won office.

The number of A-listers backing a presidential candidate doesn’t hold much weight with voters but they certainly look and sound better than politicians at the rallies and conventions. And make for better selfies.

Clinton has the world’s biggest Instagram following on her side courtesy of Katy Perry, with Kanye West, Beyonce, Pharrell Williams, Madonna, Jon Bon Jovi, Cher, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys and Demi Lovato in her camp.

Trump recently tried to deflate the A-list effect by mocking the former Secretary of State’s cheer squad.

JHaving Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel in the Clinton camp may look pretty but probably won’t influence votes. Picture: InstagramSource:Supplied

“The only people enthusiastic about her campaign are Hollywood celebrities, in many cases, celebrities that aren’t very hot any more,” the Republican candidate said, going off-script at a rally in Tampa, Florida.

While Trump doesn’t court the celebrity vote, he exceeds at attracting counter endorsements.

Each time he used a famous song during his run-up to the Republican National Convention where he was announced as the party’s presidential candidate, the songwriters would issue cease and desist orders.

Steve Tyler’s lawyers protested his use of Aerosmith’s Dream On, Queen were mightily ticked off about him walking on stage to We Are the Champions and Adele pointed out she had not given permission for Rolling In the Deep or Skyfall to be aired at his rallies.

REM frontman and activist Michael Stipe didn’t hold back when trump’s campaign asked to use the band’s music.

“Go f--- yourselves, the lot of you — you sad, attention-grabbing, power-hungry little men. Do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign,” Stipe responded.

Donald Trump has Scott Baio and Kid Rock on his side. Picture: AP.Source:AP

But for every singer who lends their voice to politics, there are hundreds who don’t. Taylor Swift has remained conspicuously silent on the candidates or the issues they face in the 2016 election.

And while her fellow American country music matriarch Loretta Lynn supports Trump, Dolly Parton makes no apologies for sitting on the fence.

She says she is enjoying watching “the greatest show on earth” but would prefer to examine the policies rather than listen to the rhetoric.

“I don’t talk politics, I don’t like to tell other people how they should feel about that,” she says.

“I’ve got a joke about it. ‘You’ve got your Republicans, you’ve got your Democrats and you’ve got your hypocrats’. And I kinda fall in that category.

“No matter what your political views are, if you go and say it you’ve already pissed off half

your crowd. It’s like religion, you already gone and make somebody mad.

“Vote your own way, vote for who you feel right about. I’m not endorsing either of the candidates right now because they have both got a lot to show me.”

Regardless of the smoke and mirrors the celebrities add to the political song and dance, there is no doubt the rest of the world is finding America’s presidential race to be frighteningly entertaining.

Former punk rocker Henry Rollins who is currently on a spoken word tour of Australia, says the world is watching because “America is like a bad reality show”.

“We are the prime time Duck Dynasty, the Bachelor and the Honey Boo Boo for the world. American culture has become a Doomsday machine,” he says.