Ellen DeGeneres has announced her support for fellow actor and comedian Rosie O’Donnell after Donald Trump threatened to revoke her citizenship.
In a Truth Social post Saturday, the U.S. president said he was considering taking away O’Donnell's citizenship.
O’Donnell was born in New York and moved to Ireland with her child Clay, 12, after Trump was elected to serve a second term as president.
Highlights
- Ellen DeGeneres publicly supported Rosie O’Donnell after Trump threatened to revoke the latter’s U.S. citizenship.
- Trump called Rosie a 'Threat to Humanity' and suggested she should stay in Ireland, where she now lives.
- O’Donnell responded fiercely, calling Trump out as everything wrong with America and defying his citizenship threat.
Donald Trump threatened to revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s U.S. citizenship
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DeGeneres voiced her support for O’Donnell in an Instagram post, sharing Trump’s threat and O'Donnell’s response to it.
The post was captioned: “Good for you @rosie.”
“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 posted.
“She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her.”
In response to the threat, O’Donnell—a vocal critic of Trump—shared an image of him and Jeffrey Epstein and asked if he was “rattled again.”
While Trump insists he knew nothing of the disgraced financier’s actions amid a sex trafficking conviction, MAGA Republicans are not happy with a new report.
After promising to release the ‘Epstein files’ if elected, the Department of Justice and the FBI said in a memo there was no Epstein client list, and he died by suicide in prison in 2019.
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“18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours,” O’Donnell said in response to Trump.
The pair have been locked in an ongoing feud since 2006 when O’Donnell criticized Trump during an episode of The View, which she co-hosted.
“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 wrote.
O’Donnell responded to Trump on Instagram
“You sell fear on golf courses –
I make art about surviving trauma. You lie, you steal, you degrade –
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.”
Several legal experts say Trump cannot revoke the citizenship of a U.S. citizen, per the 14th Amendment.
O’Donnell recently told US Magazine that she was not in contact with DeGeneres and was shocked to learn she had also left the U.S. due to Trump’s return to office.
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DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi moved to the English countryside last year.
O’Donnell said while there was “stuff” in the past the pair had not resolved, as friends and comedians, she held no “malice” towards DeGeneres and wished her the best.
“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,” O’Donnell told US Magazine.
“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, and I don’t think it came as a surprise to anyone.
“We’re not really in each other’s worlds, and it’s been kind of awkward but you know what? I wish her the best. I wish that she has peace and love in her life and that she is OK.”