Trump threatens to yank Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship (again) – President Donald Trump is pressing down on his dispute with comedian Rosie O’Donnell. In a post to Truth Social Sept. 3, the president indicated that his administration was considering removing O’Donnell’s citizenship.
The legal basis of Trump’s assertion, however, is unclear, considering that O’Donnell was born in New York. Per the Fourteenth Amendment, it provides citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States. Trump threatens to yank Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship (again)
“As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship,” the president wrote beside a seemingly warped image of the comedian’s face. “She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!”
This is not the first time Trump has teased the prospect of removing O’Donnell’s citizenship.
In a July 12 post to Truth Social, Trump wrote: “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 threatens to yank Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship (again)
“She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the lovely Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” Trump wrote. In March, O’Donnell announced on TikTok that she was “in the process” of gaining Irish citizenship through family descent. Under current U.S. law, Americans cannot lose their citizenship even if they earn citizenship in a foreign country.
Later, in July, O’Donnell confirmed the relocation, explaining on TikTok that she left the U.S. because “it got sad and terrifying for me with the election of the current administration, so I felt I had to take care of my baby — my non-binary, Autistic kid. And the way that people marginalize and abuse the Trans community, especially politically, is inconceivable to me, and so terribly cruel.”
Trump and O’Donnell’s enmity extends back to the comedian’s early days on the panel of ABC’s “View” talk program, which she cohosted from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2014 to 2015. On the show, O’Donnell infamously criticized the idea of Trump as “the moral authority” during a 2006 episode, highlighting the several children he shares with different women. Trump threatens to yank Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship (again)
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