Trump threatens to revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s US citizenship
The US president targeted the American talk show host after she criticised his administration’s actions in wake of the deadly Texas floods
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he might revoke talk show host Rosie O’Donnell’s American citizenship after she criticised his administration’s handling of weather forecasting agencies in the wake of the deadly Texas floods, the latest salvo in a years-long feud the two have waged over social media.
“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 on social media, invoking a deportation rationale the administration has used in attempts to remove foreign-born protesters from the country.
“She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!,” he added.
Under US law, a president cannot revoke the citizenship of an American born in the United States. O’Donnell was born in New York state.
O’Donnell, a long-time target of Trump’s insults and jabs, moved to Ireland earlier this year with her 12-year-old son after the start of the president’s second term. She said in a March social media video that she would return to the US “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America”.
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O’Donnell responded to Trump’s threat in two social media posts, saying that the US president opposes her because she “stands in direct opposition with all he represents”.