Frank Gehry has revealed that French president Francois Hollande has given him his word that he could self-exile to France now that Donald Trump has been elected the 45th President of the United States.

The 87-year-old Canadian-born, American architect spoke to the French paper La Croix on November 4—prior to the US elections—discussing in a lengthy interview why, having created some of the world’s most recognizable museums, such as the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, it still irks him that some critics don’t consider him an artist.

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But, as the paper Le Figaro points out, Gehry might have good reason to leave the US (beyond the urge to show resistance, that is). Gehry has a long standing dispute with the president-elect, going back to 2010, when the Beekman Tower in Manhattan, designed by Gehry, surpassed the Trump Building located just next to it by a few centimeters, thus becoming the tallest residential building in New York.