Mike Rowe -- Donald Sterling Should Leave USA ... FOREVER

Donald Sterling should change his name ... get on a plane ... and LEAVE the United States for good -- at least, that's the advice he's getting from "Dirty Jobs" star Mike Rowe.

He may have been joking ... or not ... but Mike raises a good question -- what does Donald Sterling do now??

As Rowe points out, he does have the resources and the money to live out the rest of his days in another country where no one knows who he is ... but then again, he's old and stubborn.

Does he stay in L.A. and try to rebuild his image? Or self-imposed exile?