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14 Jul 25

Rosie O’Donnell reponds to Trump’s threat to revoke US citizenship

Rosie O'Donnell at ELLE Women in Hollywood - Credit: Jordan Strauss

The American actor and comedian has said she is among a lineup of other celebrities who have been threatened by the US president.

Rosie O’Donnell has responded to the threat from the United States' president Donald Trump to revoke her US citizenship.

"18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours.
You call me a threat to humanity." she said on Instagram.

Over the weekend, Trump posted on his social media platform, 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.”

Under US law, a president cannot revoke the citizenship of an American born in the United States.

Born in New York State, O’Donnell moved to Ireland with her child this year following Trump's second White House term.

The comedian has been in a 19-year public feud with Trump, which began when she criticised the president on the US chat show The View.

Dismissing Trump's threat to her US citizenship, the 63-year-old told RTÉ Radio’s Sunday, “I didn’t take it personally, but I will tell you the way that he is has emboldened people like him.”

“There's a long list of celebrities he's threatened, including Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Mark Ruffalo. There are activists, artists who have always spoken out in their lives and career[s]. It's part of their public persona and their essence, and he's against all of us.”

"I reacted with a little post that I jotted off in five minutes, and that's been getting a lot of attention online, I am very proud to be opposed to every single thing he says and does and represents."

The former talk show host posted on Instagram in response to Trump, using a photograph of him and Jeffrey Epstein.

“I’m everything you fear:  a loud woman , a queer woman , a mother who tells the truth , an American who got out of the country b4 u set it ablaze,” she included in the post’s caption.

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O'Donnell is set to play her stand-up show 'Common Knowledge' at 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin on July 27. Following this, she is due to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from August 1 to 10.