By Olivier Acuña Barba •
Revealed: 13 Jul 2025 • 20:38
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Rosie O’Donnell responded fiercely to Trump’s threats and posted this photograph of him with Epstein | Credit score: @rosie on Instagram
President Donald Trump resurfaced a feud with comic Rosie O’Donnell that’s been ongoing for about 18 years and threatened to revoke her US citizenship, saying she isn’t appropriate for the USA.
“Due to the truth that Rosie O’Donnell isn’t in one of the best pursuits of our Nice Nation, I’m giving critical consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote. “She is a Menace to Humanity, and will stay within the great Nation of Eire, if they need her. Gob Bless America!”
Nevertheless, Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Courtroom analyst and professor at Georgetown Legislation, stated that Trump’s risk of “coercive expatriation” was “patently unconstitutional.” “For good causes, it’s troublesome to denaturalise a U.S. citizen and even tougher to expatriate one,” Vladeck wrote in April.
“Congress has supplied for less than a handful of circumstances during which the chief department is empowered to pursue such a transfer; and the Supreme Courtroom has recognised significant constitutional limits (and an entitlement to significant judicial evaluation) even in these circumstances,” he added.
O’Donnell in Eire shrugs off the threats
The New York-born actor and comic, who has a internet value of $80 million and is at the moment residing in Eire together with her son, shrugged off Trump’s risk.
“So, I didn’t take it personally, however I’ll let you know the best way that he’s has emboldened folks like him,” O’Donnell instructed RTÉ Radio’s Sunday with Miriam present.
The Trump administration has sought to limit citizenship rights and questioned the citizenship of some critics, together with Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, in addition to people like O’Donnell, who have been born in the USA.
O’Donnell moved to Eire earlier this yr after Trump received a second time period within the White Home, however they’ve continued to interact in verbal sparring.
‘Go forward and check out’
“You might be every part that’s flawed with America,” O’Donnell posted on Instagram, hours after his risk. “You wish to revoke my citizenship? Go forward and check out, King Joffrey with a tangerine spray tan, I’m not yours to silence, I by no means was.” Joffrey is a villainous king in Recreation of Thrones.
The comic, who additionally posted a photograph of Trump subsequent to Jeffrey Epstein, instructed Trump, “You name me a risk to humanity, however I’m every part you concern: a loud lady, a queer lady, a mom who tells the reality.·
And he or she went on to inform Trump that “you lie, you steal, you degrade,” whereas I nurture, I create, I persist. She added: “You might be every part that’s flawed with America, and I’m every part you hate about what’s nonetheless proper with it.”
‘I nonetheless reside rent-free’ in his mind
Within the 19080s Epstein-Trump photograph submit, she instructed Trump that “he’s rattled once more,” referring to him resurfacing the outdated battle together with her, and including, “18 years later and I nonetheless reside rent-free in that collapsing mind of yours.”
The actor posted the photograph of Epstein and Trump, amid renewed consideration on the president’s relationship with the disgraced financier.
The US president seems to be reacting to O’Donnell’s TikTok submit final weekend, during which she slams the Trump administration’s response to the Texas floods, which have left no less than 129 folks useless and 166 lacking, in keeping with an NBC report on Saturday.
Requested by CNN about Trump’s risk to take away her citizenship, O’Donnell stated, “I do know he can’t do this, however the Supreme Courtroom has given him unbridled powers, and who is aware of what he can and might’t do.”
“He shouldn’t be allowed to be doing what he’s to immigrants in the USA with out due course of, however he’s doing it anyway,” she stated. “This isn’t America. This isn’t democracy.”
Trump and O’Donnell have clashed since no less than 2006, after O’Donnell — then a co-host of “The View” — known as Trump a “snake-oil salesman on Little Home On The Prairie,” and stated he went bankrupt, which Trump denied.
For his half, Trump has known as O’Donnell “an actual loser,” “crude, impolite, obnoxious, and dumb,” and “a pig” over time.