President Donald Trump is considering revoking the citizenship of leftist talk show host and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, a longtime critic who fled to Ireland when Trump was re-elected in November.
In a Truth Social post early on Saturday morning, the president said he was thinking “seriously” about how to ensure O’Donnell can never return to 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. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” Trump wrote in the post.
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In May, O’Donnell said returning to the United States was impossible until “this administration is completely finished and hopefully held accountable for their crimes.”
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O’Donnell later said Trump’s first term in office caused her to overeat and drink and caused her depression, which led to her decision to emigrate to Ireland.
“I was very, very depressed. I was overeating. I was overdrinking. It hurt my heart that America believed the lies about him. And then it broke my heart to be in a business that creates and sells those lies for profit,” she stated.
O’Donnell claimed she felt “safe” living in Ireland, adding, “There’s no MAGA support here.”
The White House has yet to comment on whether Trump is serious about the threat to revoke O’Donnell’s status as an American citizen, or how he would do it — a move for which there is no clear legal precedent.
The Trump administration has sought to restrict paths to citizenship — and pursued ways of stripping some Americans of their citizenship altogether — as Trump aims to narrow the definition of what it means to be an American.
Politico report: The president has looked to end birthright citizenship, declaring in a January executive order that babies born in the U.S. may not be considered citizens unless one or more of their parents is an American citizen or permanent resident.
The move prompted a legal battle over the constitutionality of Trump’s executive order, with a federal judge in New Hampshire this week blocking the order just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an earlier decision was too broad.
The administration has also pursued tactics to denaturalize some citizens.
In a June 11 memo, Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate wrote that the Justice Department’s civil division would “prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings” for naturalized citizens — people who received their citizenship not via birthright — who have committed certain crimes.
