Ellen DeGeneres supports Rosie O'Donnell after Donald Trump threatens to revoke her citizenship
On Saturday, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social: '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!'
On Sunday, Ellen shared the president's post and gave a shout-out to the 63-year-old comedian: 'Good for you @rosie.'
Ironically, Ellen and Rosie have never shared more in common, being former TV titans who both left the U.S. following Trump's re-election last November.
The show of support happened months after Rosie accused Ellen of never saying 'anything political in her life'.
Rosie told Us Weekly: 'I've never really known Ellen to say anything political in her life, so I was surprised to read that she left because of President Trump. Like, that shocked me, actually. I've been a political person my whole life, not better or worse, it's just a different way to be in the world. I was very clear about the reason why I was leaving.'
'It's not like we're tenaciously opposed to each other. We're just very different people. We have had some stuff in the past that we never resolved. And not in any way as, as partners or lovers or anything like that, just as friends and comedians, but I wish her the best. I seriously do.'
Reaction: Ellen shared the president's post and gave a shout-out to the comedian
Rosie's 'past' comment was referring to when Ellen told Larry King that she didn't know Rosie and was not her friend, which deeply upset her because they were close in the nineties.
'Ellen wrote in a text, "I'm really sorry and I don't remember that,"' Rosie said in 2023, adding: 'It would never occur to me to say "I don't know her" about somebody whose babies I held when they were born. It wouldn't be in my lexicon of choices to ever say. When she was in a perplexing situation and people were saying things about her, I said, "Let me stand next to you and say that I'm Lebanese, too". When it was a downward media time for me, she didn't do anything.'
Ellen is reportedly 'never coming back' to the States after moving to a farmhouse in the Cotswolds, England where she and her wife Portia de Rossi are raising chickens and goats.
Career end: Ellen notoriously got 'kicked out of show business for being mean' after her former self-titled daytime talk show ended following 19 seasons after being hit with racism, workplace bullying, and sexual harassment claims in 2022
Meanwhile, Rosie and her child Dakota 'Clay' O'Donnell are getting used to life in Dublin, Ireland and she's 'in the process' of getting Irish citizenship.
In response to Donald's latest diss, Rosie shared four posts on Saturday.
She said: 'Hey Donald, you're rattled again? 18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours.
'You are everything that is wrong with America, and I'm everything you hate about what's still right with it. 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.'
Reaction: In response to Trump's latest diss, Rosie spoke out on Instagram on Saturday
Rosie also called Trump a 'mentally ill, untreated criminal' and 'a sexual-abusing liar out to harm our nation to serve himself'.
She continued: 'This is why I moved to Ireland.
'He is a dangerous old soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy, compassion, and basic humanity.
'I stand in direct opposition all he represents - so do millions of others. [Are you going to] deport all who stand against [your] evil tendencies? [You're] a bad joke who can't form a coherent sentence.'
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