President Donald Trump has been bitterly feuding with actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell for many years, going back to before he got into politics. In the 2015 presidential debate, when he was questioned by Megyn Kelly about his history of rude comments about women, he replied, “That was only Rosie O’Donnell.”
O’Donnell, for her part, has often criticized Trump herself, even recently bringing up the president’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The comedian has also been living in Ireland of late.
In his second presidency, Trump has been threatening to revoke O’Donnell’s citizenship, an extremely rare to take against someone who was born in the United States and has never been accused of a crime.
“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 on Truth Social back in July. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
Incapable of being so! pic.twitter.com/J7CoO5Tow2
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 4, 2025
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Then, on Thursday, the official White House X account posted a distorted photo of O’Donnell, along with a post from Trump once again threatening O’Donnell’s citizenship.
It’s a message that would have come across as potentially crossing a line even if it had come from Trump’s personal social media accounts, or another account associated with a political or otherwise non-government capacity. But for the official White House account to be used in such a cruel way, especially in threatening someone’s citizenship status, is especially unprecedented.
Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at Georgetown Law, told CNN in July that Trump’s threats of “coercive expatriation” were “patently unconstitutional.
“This is the official government account of the White House,” journalist Medhi Hassan wrote on X. “Not sure America will ever really recover from these years.”
This is the official government account of the White House.
Not sure America will ever really recover from these years. https://t.co/CuJ6lZDN8u
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 4, 2025
There is a divide in our country. It is vast and unbridgeable. Consider the below. Many people think the White House ought to behave that way. Indeed, they thrill to it. Others think: How can this be? How can the American people tolerate it, vote for it? https://t.co/ymeZgsUNjO
— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) September 4, 2025
I understand some of you think this is hilarious, but this is actually stupid as hell. We have a multitude of other far more serious problems that are not being addressed and Trump revoking Rosie’s citizenship is unserious and frankly bad precedent https://t.co/NLYLjkaFck
— Jon 🔬 (@JonnyMicro) September 4, 2025
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