Trump rekindles a decades-old quarrel by stating that he is thinking about removing Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump rekindled his long-running conflict with comedian Rosie O'Donnell by stating on his Truth Social platform that he was thinking about removing her citizenship. Trump wrote, "I am seriously considering taking away Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship because she is not in the best interests of our Great Country." "If they want her, she should stay in the beautiful country of Ireland because she poses a threat to humanity." "God bless America!"
On Saturday, President Donald Trump rekindled his long-running conflict with comedian Rosie O'Donnell
By stating on his Truth Social platform that he was thinking about removing her citizenship. Trump wrote, "I am seriously considering taking away Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship because she is not in the best interests of our Great Country." "If they want her, she should stay in the beautiful country of Ireland because she poses a threat to humanity." "God bless America!"
According to Steve Vladeck, a Georgetown Law professor and CNN Supreme Court expert, Trump's threat of "coercive expatriation" was "patently unconstitutional" on Saturday. "Denaturalization and expatriation of U.S. citizens are challenging for valid reasons," Vladeck wrote in April. "The Supreme Court has recognized meaningful constitutional limits (and an entitlement to meaningful judicial review) even in those cases, and Congress has only provided for a few circumstances in which the executive branch is empowered to pursue such a move."
O'Donnell garnered attention last weekend after posting a video to TikTok criticizing the Trump administration's response to the floods in Texas, saying the president "gut(ted) all of the early warning systems and the weathering-forecast abilities of the government," stymieing the federal response. 4CNN has contacted the White House regarding the reason behind the president's threat. O'Donnell, who was born in America, relocated to Ireland just before Trump took office in January. In April, he told CNN that the move was motivated by Trump's reelection.
She told CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown, "I knew after reading Project 2025 that if Trump got in, it was time for me and my nonbinary child to leave the country." "I don't regret anything. I have never once felt that it was the incorrect choice. I received a warm greeting. "You want to revoke my citizenship?" O'Donnell commented on Instagram in response to the president's remark on Saturday. Try getting a tangerine spray tan, King Joffrey. You can't silence me. I never was. The comedian went one step further on Sunday, calling Trump "a danger to the world" on Ireland's RTÉ Radio 1. That's the bottom line, after all.
"I take great pride in opposing everything he says, does, and stands for. O'Donnell stated, "I believe he is a sexist, a racist, and a misogynistic person." "I know he can't do that, but the Supreme Court has given him unbridled powers, and who knows what he can and can't do," O'Donnell said in response to a question concerning Trump's threat to revoke her citizenship. "He shouldn't be permitted to treat immigrants in the United States in this manner without following the proper procedures, but he is doing it anyhow," she stated. "This isn't America. This isn't democracy.
Trump and O'Donnell have been at odds since at least 2006, when O'Donnell, who was co-hosting "The View" at the time, labeled Trump a "snake-oil salesman on Little House On The Prairie" and said he filed for bankruptcy, both of which Trump disputed. Over the years, Trump has referred to O'Donnell as "a real loser," "crude, rude, obnoxious, and dumb," and "a pig."