President wants to revoke comedian's US citizenship

Fearless defender of free speech Donald Trump wants to revoke the citizenship of comedian Rosie O'Donnell because she said mean things about him.

The easily offended President called the comic no less than 'a Threat to Humanity' - his capitals, of course - after she called him a 'misogynist and a sexist pig' in the latest salvo in their long-running feud.

It came after O'Donnell, 63, spoke about how Maga pile-ons made her life a misery since she first questioned Trump's moral authority 20 years ago, forcing her to move to Ireland when he was re-elected.

In a lengthy interview with The Huffington Post today, she said: 'I needed a place where I could slow it down and remove him from the scary place he lives in my psyche.'

But she indeed she had 'no regrets' about calling out Trump, saying: 'I do say to myself sometimes, "what are the chances that the one guy that I exposed for being a misogynist and a sexist pig on The View would become the president of the United States, and would still be hung up on the fact that I told the truth about him?". 

'I think to myself, "Boy, my life would be easier if this hadn’t happened."'

'I also think to myself, "Why me?". With the president of the United States going after me, calling me a fat, ugly, unsexy, disgusting, gay, liberal pig for 20 years…? And to have the people who follow him feel emboldened to say things to me, sometimes, as well. Is that something I’d wish on anybody? It’s really not.'

And turning to his actions while in office, she added: 'I believe fascism has taken a foothold in the United States. And with this new bill – that allows him to have his own secret police, and the budget for that [being] greater than the money we give to Israel, which is already unbelievably high – I look at America, and it feels tragic. I feel sad. I feel overwhelmingly depressed. I don’t understand how we got here."

'I don’t want to be a doomsdayer, but I think that the writing is on the wall. And it does not look good."'

Thin-skinned Trump took it as well as expected, taking to  Truth Social to target the comedian again.
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. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!'

The president cannot revoke the citizenship of anyone born in America - and O'Donnell was born in Commack in Long Island - though he's never been much concerned about what the Constitution and international law have said before.

O'Doonnell will be at the Edinburgh Fringe next month, playing the Gilded Balloon from August 1 to 10.

Published: 12 Jul 2025