President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to remove comic Rosie O’Donnell’s U.S. citizenship, one thing that he can’t legally do, reigniting a decadeslong feud between the pair.
“Due to the truth that Rosie O’Donnell shouldn’t be in the very best pursuits of our Nice Nation, I’m giving critical consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Risk to Humanity, and may stay within the great Nation of Eire, if they need her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” Trump wrote in a put up on Reality Social on Saturday.
Constitutionally, the U.S. president doesn’t have legally have the ability to “take away” one’s citizenship, as Trump is threatening to do. The 14th Modification ensures citizenship to anybody born in america. O’Donnell was born in Commack, New York, based on IMDb.
Trump’s put up on Saturday comes as his administration has sought to revoke birthright citizenship from the youngsters of fogeys who usually are not U.S. residents, however that has stalled in courtroom.
The president has additionally threatened to “look” at whether or not New York Metropolis’s Democratic nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is within the U.S. illegally. There isn’t any proof that Mamdani is within the U.S. illegally. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda, turned a naturalized citizen in 2018.
In a put up on Instagram later Saturday, O’Donnell responded to Trump’s Reality Social put up, writing, “hey donald — you’re rattled once more? 18 years later and I nonetheless dwell rent-free in that collapsing mind of yours.”
“You name me a menace to humanity — however I’m every thing you worry: a loud girl a queer girl a mom who tells the reality an american who bought in a foreign country b4 u set it ablaze,” O’Donnell added.
The Instagram caption didn’t point out Jeffrey Epstein — the disgraced financier who died in 2019 after allegations of intercourse trafficking — however the photograph O’Donnell posted alongside her caption was one among Trump together with his arm round Epstein.
The Trump administration confronted criticism from conservative media figures this week after claiming that an “exhaustive evaluation” of recordsdata associated to Epstein turned up no “incriminating shopper record” belonging to Epstein.
In her caption, O’Donnell additionally addressed Trump’s threats to revoke her citizenship, evaluating him to the fictional King Joffrey from the favored ebook sequence and HBO present “Recreation of Thrones.”
“You wish to revoke my citizenship?” O’Donnell wrote. “Go forward and check out, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. i’m not yours to silence i by no means was.”
Trump’s newest assaults in opposition to O’Donnell got here after she revealed in a March 2025 TikTok put up that she had moved to Eire in January, saying, “When it’s secure for all residents to have equal rights there, in America, that’s once we’ll contemplate coming again.”
In that very same video, O’Donnell additionally stated she was within the strategy of getting her Irish citizenship, as she has Irish grandparents. The U.S. permits twin citizenship.
In March, throughout a go to to the White Home from Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, Trump addressed O’Donnell’s transfer to Eire.
The U.S. president requested Martin, “Why on this planet would you let Rosie O’Donnell transfer to Eire? I believe she’s going to decrease your happiness ranges.”
Trump and O’Donnell have lobbed insults at one another for nearly 20 years, starting in 2006 when O’Donnell, then a co-host of “The View,” was important of Trump’s selections relating to a Miss USA winner.
The 2 exchanged jabs for years after that, however the spat drew headlines once more when Trump ran for president in 2015.
He invoked O’Donnell’s identify on the talk stage in 2015, when he was requested about his use of the phrases “fats pigs,” “canines,” “slobs” and “disgusting animals” to explain some ladies.
