Donald Trump threatens to revoke comedian Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship
Writing on his Truth Social platform, Trump said: '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!'
The White House has not confirmed what prompted the president's threat – but O'Donnell drew attention last weekend after she posted a video to TikTok slamming the Trump administration's response to the Texas floods.
She claimed the president 'gut(ted) all of the early warning systems and the weathering‑forecast abilities of the government,' stymying the federal response.
Steve Vladeck, professor at Georgetown Law and Supreme Court analyst for ITV News' North American partner CNN, said on Saturday that Trump's threat of 'coercive expatriation' was 'patently unconstitutional'.'For good reasons, it is difficult to denaturalise a US citizen and even harder to expatriate one,' Mr Vladeck wrote in April.
'Congress has provided for only a handful of circumstances in which the executive branch is empowered to pursue such a move; and the Supreme Court has recognised meaningful constitutional limits (and an entitlement to meaningful judicial review) even in those cases.'American-born O'Donnell moved to Ireland shortly before Trump's inauguration in January, telling CNN in April that the Republican's re-election prompted the move.'I knew after reading Project 2025 that if Trump got in, it was time for me and my non-binary child to leave the country,' she said.
'I have no regrets. Not a day has gone by that I thought it was the wrong decision. I was welcomed with open arms.'
Responding to the president's post on Saturday, O'Donnell wrote on Instagram: '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.'On Sunday, the comedian went further, telling Ireland's RTÉ Radio 1 that Trump is 'a danger to the world. I mean that's the bottom line'.'I am very proud to be opposed to every single thing he says and does and represents. I think he's a racist and he's misogynistic and he's sexist,' O'Donnell said.Asked about Trump's threat to remove her citizenship, O'Donnell added, '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.''He shouldn't be allowed to be doing what he is to immigrants in the United States without due process, but he's doing it anyway,' she said. 'This is not America. This is not democracy.'Trump and O'Donnell have clashed since at least 2006, after O'Donell — then a co-host of 'The View' — called Trump a 'snake-oil salesman on Little House On The Prairie,' and said he went bankrupt, which Trump denied.For his part, Trump has called O'Donnell 'a real loser,' 'crude, rude, obnoxious, and dumb,' and 'a pig' over the years.
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