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Trump’s Citizenship Threat Sparks Outrage; O’Donnell Stands Firm
Donald Trump’s public declaration this weekend that he is giving “serious consideration” to rescinding the comedian’s US citizenship was the latest in a decades-long feud between him and Rosie O’Donnell. O’Donnell responded angrily to the unprecedented threat.
Trump referred to O’Donnell as a “Threat to Humanity” in a Saturday post on Truth Social, urging her to remain in Ireland, where she has been since January.
“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,” Trump wrote. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
Trump’s threat, which is technically impossible because US citizens cannot have their citizenship revoked by a presidential order, comes after O’Donnell and her 12-year-old autistic and non-binary child moved to the Howth neighbourhood of Dublin. She claimed that she made the decision to quit following Trump’s victory against Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, and that her departure occurred at the same time as Trump’s second inauguration.
O’Donnell: “You Lie, You Steal, You Degrade”
O’Donnell wasted no time firing back in a string of social media posts, some featuring images of Trump with Jeffrey Epstein. “Hey Donald – you’re rattled again?” she wrote. “18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours.”
Calling him a “dangerous old soulless man,” O’Donnell unleashed a direct rebuke: “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.”
“You crave loyalty – I teach my children to question power,” she continued. “You sell fear on golf courses – I make art about surviving trauma. You lie, you steal, you degrade – I nurture, I create, I persist. You are everything that is wrong with America… I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
A Feud That Won’t Die
The public hostility between Trump and O’Donnell began in 2006 when O’Donnell, then a member of The View, called Trump a “snake-oil salesman” and made fun of his personal life after he handled a Miss USA controversy.
Trump quickly retaliated. In an interview with The Insider, he called her “disgusting both inside and out,” saying, “You take a look at her, she’s a slob. She talks like a truck driver.”
During the first GOP primary debate in 2015, the feud gained national attention. Trump famously responded, “Only Rosie O’Donnell,” when Fox host Megyn Kelly questioned him about his use of derogatory language like “fat pigs” and “slobs” to refer to women.
O’Donnell later called Trump’s harassment “the most bullying I ever experienced in my life, including as a child.” The abuse, she said, was public, sustained, and “sanctioned societally.”
“A Way to Take Care of Myself and My Child”
O’Donnell stated in an interview with Chris Cuomo in June that she moved to Ireland in part to safeguard her mental health and provide a safer environment for her child during Trump’s second term in office.
“Coming to Ireland was totally a way to take care of myself and my non-binary autistic child, who’s going to need services and help and counseling and all the things that he’s threatening to cut in his horrible plan of the big, beautiful bill,” she said on The Chris Cuomo Project podcast.
In a March interview with CNN, O’Donnell described life under Trump as “heartbreaking and personally very very sad to watch,” adding, “It’s bad as they promised and even a little bit worse.”
She also disclosed that she is currently applying for Irish citizenship with her child.
Trump’s Fixation Continues
Trump, now in his second term, continues to target O’Donnell with venom that shows no sign of abating. When asked in 2025 about O’Donnell’s move to Ireland, he quipped: “Do you know who she is? You’re better off not knowing.”
Back in 2006, he threatened to sue her over false statements, telling PEOPLE, “Rosie will rue the words she said… I look forward to taking lots of money from my nice fat little Rosie.”
O’Donnell has remained outspoken in spite of years of public taunts. She continues to be among Trump’s most vehement celebrity critics, having demonstrated outside the White House in 2018.
No Legal Grounds
According to the New York Post, legal experts have swiftly pointed out that there is no constitutional procedure for a president to unilaterally deprive an American of their citizenship, despite the fact that Trump’s claim to have revoked O’Donnell’s citizenship made news.
O’Donnell was born in Long Island, and even if she becomes an Irish citizen, she will still be a citizen under current law.
The comment appears to be yet another rhetorical salvo in their long-running war of words—but one that O’Donnell, as ever, is not backing down from. As she put it, “I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
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