Rosie O’Donnell has a message for President Donald Trump after he threatened to revoke her U.S. citizenship.
“Hey donald — you’re rattled again? 18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours. You call me a threat to humanity – but 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,” O’Donnell 63, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, July 12.
“You build walls – I build a life for my autistic kid in a country where decency still exists,” she continued in the post, which featured a picture of the president posting for a photo alongside convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. “You crave loyalty – I teach my children to question power. You sell fear on golf courses — I nurture, I create, I persist. 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.”
On Saturday morning, the president claimed he was giving “serious consideration” to revoking O’Donnell’s citizenship via 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,” he wrote on the platform. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
According to expert Julia Gelatt, who spoke to The New York Times, a president does not have the power to take away a U.S-born citizen’s citizenship.
“U.S. citizens can relinquish their citizenship voluntarily, and federal courts can strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship if there is proven fraud or misrepresentation or other major cause,” Gelatt, an associate director of the immigration program at the Migration Policy Institute, told the publication. “But U.S.-born citizens cannot have their citizenship taken away.”
As The New York Times notes, President Trump’s threat comes amid a contentious time for his administration, which is dealing with various criticisms on multiple fronts, including the federal warnings — or lack thereof — and response to the devastating floods in Texas, feuding over the alleged Epstein file and the decision to stop sending munitions to Ukraine.
“The president of the USA has always hated the fact that I see him for who he is — a criminal con man sexual abusing liar out to harm our nation to serve himself,” O’Donnell also wrote via Instagram in response to the president’s threats. “This is why I moved to Ireland.”
In an exclusive interview with Us Weekly back in April, O’Donnell opened up about her decision to move to Ireland alongside her 12-year-old child, Clay.
“We chose Ireland and didn’t really know where to go,” O’Donnell said. “Someone said Dalkey, and I found a house online that was in Glengarry. But when the people who were helping us move in went there, there was mold in it. [We] could not move there, especially with an autistic child who has some allergy issues. And so, we ended up in Howth [at an Airbnb].”
She continued, “There’s a great, great school there. And Clay has done very well. And they were really welcoming. And I love the little town, the little village. It’s in the heart of Dublin, but it’s still a village where you know the name of the grocer and you know the name of the cashiers. People are unbearably kind in a way that shocks me every single day.”
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