Trump threatens to revoke Hollywood star's citizenship branding her 'threat to humanity
'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,' Trump, 79, wrote Saturday.
'She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!'
The outburst followed O'Donnell's July 7 HuffPost interview, in which she discussed her decades-long feud with the former president and her 2024 move to Ireland, made ahead of Trump's reelection.
'I look at America and I feel overwhelmingly depressed,' said O'Donnell, 63, citing her need to protect her mental health and care for her 12-year-old son, who has autism.
'I knew what [the Trump administration] was planning to do, because I read Project 2025. I know what he's capable of. And I didn't want to put myself through another four years of him being in charge.'
The outburst followed Rosie O'Donnell's July 7 HuffPost interview, in which she discussed her decades-long feud with the former president and her 2024 move to Ireland
'I picked up and left before the inauguration – because I wasn't going to take any chances.'
O'Donnell and Trump's public feud began in 2006, after she criticized him on The View over his handling of the Miss USA controversy.
Mocking his defense of then-titleholder Tara Conner, she called Trump a 'snake-oil salesman on Little House on the Prairie' and dismissed his claim of being self-made, pointing to his wealthy father.
Trump hit back in a People interview, insisting his father 'never gave [him] tons of money' and threatening to sue. 'Rosie will rue the words she said,' he said at the time. 'Rosie's a loser. A real loser.'
Since then, the two have traded jabs publicly, their mutual disdain well-documented.
In the HuffPost interview, O'Donnell described her move as one of 'self-preservation.'
'I wasn't up for this battle,' she said. 'The cost was too high. I still believe in the virtue of the fight—I just couldn't do it personally.'
Watching Trump's second term from abroad, O'Donnell added: 'I think it's as bad as everyone worried it would be. I believe fascism has taken a foothold in the United States.'
She also criticized a new bill she claims grants Trump his own 'secret police,' with a budget 'greater than the money we give to Israel, which is already unbelievably high.'
'I look at America, and it feels tragic,' she said. 'I feel sad. I feel overwhelmingly depressed. I don't understand how we got here.'
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The Guardian
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- The Guardian
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- Daily Mail
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