Trump threatens Rosie O’Donnell with revoking her citizenship

President Donald Trump resurfaced a feud with comedian Rosie O’Donnell that’s been ongoing for about 18 years and threatened to revoke her US citizenship, saying she is not suitable for the United States.

“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. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. Gob Bless America!”

However, Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at Georgetown Law, said that Trump’s threat of “coercive expatriation” was “patently unconstitutional.” “For good reasons, it is difficult to denaturalise a U.S. citizen and even harder to expatriate one,” Vladeck wrote in April.

“Congress has provided for only a handful of circumstances in which the executive branch is empowered to pursue such a move; and the Supreme Court has recognised meaningful constitutional limits (and an entitlement to meaningful judicial review) even in those cases,” he added.

O’Donnell in Ireland shrugs off the threats

The New York-born actor and comedian, who has a net worth of $80 million and is currently residing in Ireland with her son, shrugged off Trump’s threat.

“So, I didn’t take it personally, but I will tell you the way that he is has emboldened people like him,” O’Donnell told RTÉ Radio’s Sunday with Miriam show. 

The Trump administration has sought to restrict citizenship rights and questioned the citizenship of some critics, including Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, as well as individuals like O’Donnell, who were born in the United States.

O’Donnell moved to Ireland earlier this year after Trump won a second term in the White House, but they have continued to engage in verbal sparring.

‘Go ahead and try’

“You are everything that is wrong with America,” O’Donnell posted on Instagram, hours after his threat. “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.” Joffrey is a villainous king in Game of Thrones.

The comedian, who also posted a photo of Trump next to Jeffrey Epstein, told Trump, “You call me a threat to humanity, but I am everything you fear: a loud woman, a queer woman, a mother who tells the truth.·

And she went on to tell Trump that “you lie, you steal, you degrade,” while I nurture, I create, I persist. She added: “You are everything that is wrong with America, and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it.”

‘I still live rent-free’ in his brain

In the 19080s Epstein-Trump photo post, she told Trump that “he is rattled again,” referring to him resurfacing the old conflict with her, and adding, “18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours.”

The actor posted the photo of Epstein and Trump, amid renewed attention on the president’s relationship with the disgraced financier.

The US president appears to be reacting to O’Donnell’s TikTok post last weekend, in which she slams the Trump administration’s response to the Texas floods, which have left at least 129 people dead and 166 missing, according to an NBC report on Saturday.

Asked by CNN about Trump’s threat to remove her citizenship, O’Donnell said, “I know he can’t do that, but the Supreme Court has given him unbridled powers, and who knows what he can and can’t do.”

“He shouldn’t be allowed to be doing what he is to immigrants in the United States without due process, but he’s doing it anyway,” she said. “This is not America. This is not democracy.”

Trump and O’Donnell have clashed since at least 2006, after O’Donnell — then a co-host of “The View” — called Trump a “snake-oil salesman on Little House On The Prairie,” and said he went bankrupt, which Trump denied.

For his part, Trump has called O’Donnell “a real loser,” “crude, rude, obnoxious, and dumb,” and “a pig” over the years.