Rosie O’Donnell dismisses Donald Trump’s threat to revoke US citizenship

Comedian and TV host Rosie O’Donnell has dismissed a threat from Donald Trump to revoke her US citizenship.

It comes after the US president posted on Truth Social that he was considering removing her citizenship. He 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.”

He also said she was a “threat to humanity” and said she should “remain in the wonderful country of Ireland, if they want her”, after she recently moved there.

She has since hit back on Instagram and wrote: “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 i’m not yours to silence i never was.”

Speaking with RTÉ,  O’Donnell later said that she was the latest in a long list of artists, activists, and celebrities to be threatened by the US president.

She added: “I am very proud to be opposed to every single thing he says and does and represents.

“There’s a long list of celebrities he’s threatened, including Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Mark Ruffalo. There are activists, artists who have always spoken out in their lives and career[s]. It’s part of their public persona and their essence, and he’s against all of us.

“So, I didn’t take it personally, but I will tell you the way that he has emboldened people like him.”

Earlier this year, O’Donnell announced that she and her son Clay had moved to Ireland, and that she was in the process of applying for citizenship.

Rosie O’Donnell is not the only Hollywood name who recently confirmed their departure from the United States. Avatar director James Cameron also called Trump’s win “sickening” and said his New Zealand citizenship is “imminent”.

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