President Donald Trump unleashed on his longtime foe Rosie O’Donnell, threatening to revoke the left-leaning comedian’s U.S. citizenship.
In a Truth Social post July 12, Trump said that “because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
“She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” Trump wrote. A rep for O’Donnell directed USA TODAY to her client’s statement on Instagram, saying that “nothing else will be said.”
In March, the infamous former “View” co-host revealed her recent move to Ireland and told fans the political climate following Trump’s election inspired her relocation, which took place Jan. 15.
“It’s been heartbreaking to see what’s happening politically and hard for me personally as well,” O’Donnell said. “The personal is political, as we all know,” adding that “now as we’re getting settled, I was ready to post this and to tell everybody what’s been going on.”
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O’Donnell and Trump’s feud date back to her days on the panel of ABC’s “The View,” which she co-hosted from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2014 to 2015 before he was elected president.
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In her July 12 statement on Instagram, O’Donnell posted a picture of Trump and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, asking if he is “rattled again? 18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours.”
Epstein, the convicted child sex offender and disgraced multimillionaire financier, died in 2019 and his death is the source of long-standing conspiracy theories and controversy.
“You call me a threat to humanity – but I’m everything you fear: a loud woman a queer woman a mother who tells the truth an american who got out of the country b4 u set it ablaze,” O’Donnell said in her statement. “You build walls – I build a life for my autistic kid in a country where decency still exists.”
She added: “You crave loyalty – I teach my children to question power. You sell fear on golf courses – I make art about surviving trauma. You lie, you steal, you degrade – I nurture, I create, I persist.” In her open letter to Trump, O’Donnell wrote that “you are everything that is wrong with america – and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it.”
“You want to revoke my citizenship? go ahead and try, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. i’m not yours to silence i never was,” O’Donnell concluded.
Later in March, in another lengthy TikTok video, Donnell said she felt “healthier (and) I’m sleeping better without the stress and anxiety over what was happening politically in the country,” and because she is not being “singled out by the President of the United States.”
Contributing: Edward Segarra
