Trump threatens to revoke citizenship of US comedian Rosie O’Donnell

O’Donnell says the Republican US president hates her due to the fact that she sees ‘him for who helium is – a transgression con man’.

United States President Donald Trump has said helium mightiness revoke talk-show big Rosie O’Donnell’s US citizenship aft she criticised his administration’s handling of upwind forecasting agencies successful the aftermath of the deadly Texas floods.

Trump’s threats are the latest salvo successful a years-long feud the 2 person waged implicit societal media.

“Because of the information that Rosie O’Donnell is not successful the champion interests of our Great Country, I americium giving superior information to taking distant her Citizenship,” the US president wrote connected his Truth Social platform.

Trump has agelong called for the wide deportation of undocumented immigrants, but successful caller weeks, helium has suggested that helium would region US citizens that helium disagrees with from the country.

“She is simply a Threat to Humanity, and should stay successful the fantastic Country of Ireland, if they privation her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” Trump wrote.

Under the law, a president cannot revoke the citizenship of an American calved successful the US. O’Donnell was calved successful New York state.

Trump’s latest jab astatine O’Donnell seemed to beryllium successful effect to a TikTok video she posted this month, mourning the 119 deaths successful the July 4 floods successful Texas and blaming Trump’s wide cuts to biology and subject agencies progressive successful forecasting large earthy disasters.

“What a fearfulness communicative successful Texas,” O’Donnell said successful the video. “And you know, erstwhile the president guts each the aboriginal informing systems and the weathering forecast abilities of the government, these are the results that we’re gonna commencement to spot connected a regular basis.”

The Trump administration, arsenic good arsenic section and authorities officials, person faced mounting questions astir whether much could person been done to support and pass residents successful beforehand of the Texas flooding, which killed astatine slightest 120 radical earlier this month.

Trump, connected Friday, visited Texas and defended the government’s effect to the disaster, saying his agencies “did an unthinkable occupation nether the circumstances.”

O’Donnell responded to Trump’s menace successful 2 posts connected her Instagram account, saying: “the president of the usa has ever hated the information that one spot him for who helium is – a transgression con antheral intersexual abusing liar retired to harm our federation to service himself.”

She added that helium opposes her due to the fact that she “stands successful nonstop absorption with each helium represents”.

O’Donnell has been a longtime people of Trump’s insults and jabs.

In 2014, erstwhile she opened up astir her value nonaccomplishment journey, Trump said connected X that “she felt ‘shame’ astatine being fat-not politically correct! She killed Star Jones for value nonaccomplishment surgery, conscionable had it!”

During Trump’s archetypal presidency, O’Donnell told W mag that she feared whether she would beryllium capable to “live through” his presidency.

Following Trump’s inauguration for his 2nd statesmanlike word successful January this year, she moved to Ireland earlier this twelvemonth with her 12-year-old son.

In a March TikTok video, she said that she would instrumentality to the US “when it is harmless for each citizens to person adjacent rights determination successful America”.

Earlier this month, Trump said helium whitethorn look astatine options to deport his erstwhile aide-turned-critic, Elon Musk, a naturalised US citizen.

And past month, the White House said allegations that Democratic nominee for New York City politician Zohran Mamdani has supported “terrorism” successful the past “should beryllium investigated”, with the intent of revoking his citizenship.