President Trump took his yearslong feud with Rosie O’Donnell to new heights on Saturday, announcing that he’s giving “serious consideration to taking away her citizenship” months after she moved to Ireland on the heels of the election.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump dubbed the 63-year-old Emmy winner a “threat to humanity” who’s better off staying in Europe as she’s “not in the best interests” of the U.S.
Though the native New Yorkers have thrown insults at each other for nearly 20 years, it’s not clear what provoked Saturday’s sudden declaration nor did Trump specify why he deems O’Donnell a threat.
O’Donnell revealed in March that she had decamped to Ireland just days before the Republican president began his second term in January. She said she would only consider moving back “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America.”
In April, she said her decision was prompted largely by a desire to protect her “autistic, amazing, nonbinary child,” in no small part because of the controversial views on autism held by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
O’Donnell then took to TikTok in May to share her belief that President Trump rigged the results of 2024 election. She claimed he has again and again admitted as much, but didn’t provide examples of his alleged confessions.
In response to Trump’s threat against her citizenship, O’Donnell hit back by referring to the president as “a criminal con man sexual abusing liar out to harm our nation to serve himself.”
“This is why I moved to Ireland,” she wrote on Instagram Saturday. “He is a dangerous old soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy, compassion and basic humanity. I stand in direct opposition [to] all he represents — so do millions of others.”
The post included multiple photos and screengrabs, including one of Trump with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In a subsequent post addressed to Trump, O’Donnell identified herself as “everything you fear: a loud woman, a queer woman, a mother who tells the truth, an American who got out of the country before you set it ablaze.”
She then challenged him to try to take away her citizenship if he wants.
According to the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, a president does not have the power to revoke the citizenship of a person born or naturalized in the United States.
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