The US President who has had a long running feud with the comedian, already issued the same threat in July
The US President who has had a long running feud with the comedian, already issued the same threat in July.
On Wednesday he said he was giving “serious thought” to making the move he legally cannot do
“As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!”
Trump had made similar statements in recent months, and in July said he was considering revoking O’Donnell’s citizenship because she “is not in the best interests of our Great Country” and is a “Threat to Humanity.”
O’Donnell fled to Ireland after Trump came to power
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O’Donnell responded to the president’s post in July with a reference to the character King Joffrey from “Game of Thrones,” saying: “Go ahead and try, King Joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born in the US.
The Constitution does not allow a president to strip citizenship of someone born there.
O’Donnell who was born in Commack, New York moved to Ireland with her daughter earlier this year, citing the current political climate as a reason for her move.
As she has Irish grandparents she in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship to become a dual citizen.
“When it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back,” she said in a TikTok video.
In March, a reporter asked the Taoiseach Michael Martin during a visit to the White House why he would allow O’Donnell to move to Ireland, Trump said he was better off not knowing who she was.
“Do you know who she is? You’re better off not knowing,” Trump said at the time.
Trump’s feud with O’Donnell goes back nearly two decades, to 2006 when O’Donnell criticising him on ‘The View’ about his decision to be lenient toward a Miss USA winner who had been accused of drug use and other controversies.
In 2015, during a Republican primary debate, a moderator asked Trump about his past use of derogatory terms to describe women.
“Only Rosie O’Donnell,” then-candidate Trump replied.
Last month, O’Donnell apologised for a video she posted claiming the Minneapolis Catholic school shooter was a MAGA supporter.
In March, O’Donnell told the Late Late Show that Trump “has it out for me and has for 20 years” after she “told the truth about him”.
The 63-year-old US talk show host spoke to Patrick Kielty, in what was her first interview since moving to Ireland due to the Trump presidency.
Earlier that month, O’Donnell revealed that she and her youngest child Clay, 12, moved to Ireland, where her grandparents are from, and she is now in the process of applying for Irish citizenship.
“When I told the truth about him on a programme called The View, where it was my job to talk about pop culture and politics, I mentioned his bankruptcies,” she said.
“I mentioned the fact that he’s not the businessman everyone thinks he is.”
O’Donnell said that President Trump, who was not president at that time, was “very angry to say the least”, following her comments.
“He hasn’t let it go and he uses me as a punchline whenever he feels the need,” she added.
A clip was played of Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s visit to the Oval Office last week, when a reporter asked him “why would you let someone like Rosie O’Donnell into Ireland?”
The actress said it felt “very surreal” watching the exchange, adding that “he is doing it two decades and I am still not used to it every time he does”.
“I felt very troubled that they put the Taoiseach in that position and that they didn’t treat him with the respect that a leader of that kind deserves when they are visiting the White House,” she said.
O’Donnell had said she intends to live outside of the US until “it is safe, you know, for all citizens to have equal rights there, that’s when we will consider coming back”.
Kielty asked O’Donnell why she decided not to stay in the US, having lived there through the first Trump presidency, to which she pointed to Project 2025, which is a “political initiative to reshape the federal government of the United States”.
She said that “anyone who read that would not be able to sleep as an American”, claiming that it includes “gutting all of the social programmes”.