Donald Trump woke up angry this weekend and turned his rage toward one of his oldest enemies—Rosie O’Donnell.
In a post on Truth Social, the president threatened to take away the comedian’s American citizenship, calling her a “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 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 strange rant followed Rosie’s recent HuffPost interview, where she opened up about leaving the country to protect her mental health. In that interview, she said she moved to Ireland in early 2024, before Trump’s second inauguration.
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“I look at America and I feel overwhelmingly depressed,” O’Donnell said.
She explained that her 12-year-old son has autism and that she couldn’t handle another Trump presidency.
“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.”
Rosie also warned that she believes Trump is building something dangerous.
“I think it’s as bad as everyone worried it would be. I believe fascism has taken a foothold in the United States.”
She even raised alarm over a new bill she says gives Trump his own “secret police,” with a budget higher than U.S. aid to Israel.
“I look at America, and it feels tragic. I feel sad. I feel overwhelmingly depressed. I don’t understand how we got here.”
This decades-long feud between Trump and O’Donnell is nothing new. It started in 2006 when she criticized him on The View over the Miss USA controversy. Back then, she called him a “snake-oil salesman on Little House on the Prairie” and mocked his claim of being self-made.
Trump fired back in a People interview, saying his father “never gave [him] tons of money” and warning that “Rosie will rue the words she said.” He called her “a loser. A real loser.”
He kept attacking her during his first presidential run. In a 2015 debate, when asked about calling women names like “fat pigs” and “slobs,” Trump replied, “Only Rosie O’Donnell.”
Even during debates with Hillary Clinton, he brought Rosie up again, saying, “She’s been very vicious to me… and I think everybody would agree she deserves it.”
Rosie once responded in a deleted tweet, calling Trump an “orange anus.” She later told W Magazine in 2017 that it took her a full year to recover from his first election win.
“I seriously worry whether I personally will be able to live through [his presidency] and whether the nation will be able to survive.”
After his second inauguration, she revealed on TikTok that she left for Ireland and would only return when it felt “safe for all citizens to have equal rights.”
But Trump still keeps bringing her up. When Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin visited the White House, Trump joked about Rosie again, saying he was “better off” not knowing her.
Rosie said it best: “He’s been doing it for two decades, and I’m still not used to it.”
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