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Rosie O’Donnell has issued a brutal response to President Donald Trump after he threatened to strip her of her U.S. citizenship.
Back in 2025, the 80-year-old president took to Truth Social to inform his followers that he was giving 'serious consideration' to revoking O’Donnell’s American citizenship.
"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. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!" he penned.
O’Donnell currently resides in Ireland, where she is seeking Irish citizenship through her grandparents’ heritage.
Hours after Trump’s post, O’Donnell took to Instagram to share a picture of the president posing alongside Jeffrey Epstein, accompanied by a sharp caption: "Hey Donald - You’re rattled again? 18 years later, and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours."
"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 before you set it ablaze.
"You build walls – I build a life for my autistic kid in a country where decency still exists. You crave loyalty – I teach my children to question power.
"You sell fear on golf courses – I make art about surviving trauma."
"You lie, you steal, you degrade – I nurture, I create, I persist," she continued.
"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," she concluded, referencing the notoriously cruel child-king from HBO’s Game of Thrones.
The A League of Their Own star addressed the feud further on Ireland’s RTÉ Radio 1 during an appearance on Sunday with Miriam.
"I reacted with a little post that I jotted off in five minutes, and that's been getting a lot of attention online," she explained.
"I am very proud to be opposed to every single thing he says and does and represents."
The citizenship row comes as O’Donnell makes a return to late-night television, filling in as a week-long guest host on Jimmy Kimmel Live! during Kimmel's summer hiatus.
When the 58-year-old initially announced her hosting stint, he teased that it would be 'a special treat' for Trump.
O’Donnell admitted to Variety that she was 'surprised' when Kimmel reached out due to their past 'adversarial relationship' and the fact that she had never even appeared as a guest on his show.
However, she accepted the offer out of 'thankful' solidarity for Kimmel amid the president's attempts to get the late-night program canceled over jokes he disliked.
"I support [Kimmel] in what he’s doing with the First Amendment, and our ability as entertainers and citizens to speak out against our government that’s enshrined in the Founding Fathers’ writings about our government, so I think he’s fantastic," she said.
"And I wish that Stephen Colbert had the same kind of support when it happened to him, because he shouldn’t be gone either," she added.
The comedian stepped onto the stage on Monday (August 17) night in a bright pink suited outfit adorned with flowers, and declared to the audience: "If you thought the president hated ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ when it was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel? Buckle up, people! Buckle up."
During her opening monologue, O’Donnell took aim at her political adversary, quipping: "I’ve been living in Ireland for the past two years because of ‘Mango Mussolini.’
"I read that Project 2025 and said, 'Gotta get myself out of here!' and I decided to go to Ireland where people are driven to drink regardless of who’s running their country."
At one point, she looked straight into the camera to deliver a direct message to the White House: “Hi! I know you’re watching!"
Trump and O'Donnell's public feud ignited in 2006 when O’Donnell, serving as a co-host on The View, mocked Trump's bankruptcies and ridiculed a press conference he held regarding the Miss USA pageant, which he co-owned at the time.
Trump fired back during a celebrity edition of The Apprentice, calling O'Donnell "disgusting" multiple times during a boardroom segment, Time Magazine reported.
The feud followed Trump to the presidential campaign in 2016. During a debate against Hillary Clinton, he defended his past statements by saying: "Rosie O’Donnell - I said very tough things to her, and I think everybody would agree that she deserves it and nobody feels sorry for her."
At the time, O’Donnell responded by declaring Trump "will never be President" in one post and labeling him an "orange" in another.
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