Rosie O'Donnell responded fiercely to Trump's threats and posted this photograph of him pinch Epstein | Credit: @rosie connected Instagram
President Donald Trump resurfaced a feud pinch comedian Rosie O’Donnell that’s been ongoing for astir 18 years and threatened to revoke her US citizenship, saying she is not suitable for nan United States.
“Because of nan truth that Rosie O’Donnell is not successful nan champion interests of our Great Country, I americium giving superior information to taking distant her Citizenship,” Trump wrote. “She is simply a Threat to Humanity, and should stay successful nan awesome Country of Ireland, if they want her. Gob Bless America!”
However, Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court expert and professor astatine Georgetown Law, said that Trump’s threat of “coercive expatriation” was “patently unconstitutional.” “For bully reasons, it is difficult to denaturalise a U.S. national and moreover harder to expatriate one,” Vladeck wrote successful April.
“Congress has provided for only a fistful of circumstances successful which nan executive branch is empowered to prosecute specified a move; and nan Supreme Court has recognised meaningful law limits (and an entitlement to meaningful judicial review) moreover successful those cases,” he added.
O’Donnell successful Ireland shrugs disconnected nan threats
The New York-born character and comedian, who has a nett worthy of $80 cardinal and is presently domiciled successful Ireland pinch her son, shrugged disconnected Trump’s threat.
“So, I didn’t return it personally, but I will show you nan measurement that he is has emboldened group for illustration him,” O’Donnell told RTÉ Radio’s Sunday pinch Miriam show.
The Trump management has sought to restrict citizenship authorities and questioned nan citizenship of immoderate critics, including Elon Musk, who was calved successful South Africa, arsenic good arsenic individuals for illustration O’Donnell, who were calved successful nan United States.
O’Donnell moved to Ireland earlier this twelvemonth aft Trump won a 2nd word successful nan White House, but they person continued to prosecute successful verbal sparring.
‘Go up and try’
“You are everything that is incorrect pinch America,” O’Donnell posted connected Instagram, hours aft his threat. “You want to revoke my citizenship? Go up and try, King Joffrey pinch a tangerine spray tan, I’m not yours to silence, I ne'er was.” Joffrey is simply a villainous king successful Game of Thrones.
The comedian, who besides posted a photo of Trump adjacent to Jeffrey Epstein, told Trump, “You telephone maine a threat to humanity, but I americium everything you fear: a large woman, a queer woman, a mother who tells nan truth.·
And she went connected to show Trump that “you lie, you steal, you degrade,” while I nurture, I create, I persist. She added: “You are everything that is incorrect pinch America, and I’m everything you dislike astir what’s still correct pinch it.”
‘I still unrecorded rent-free’ successful his brain
In nan 19080s Epstein-Trump photograph post, she told Trump that “he is rattled again,” referring to him resurfacing nan aged conflict pinch her, and adding, “18 years later and I still unrecorded rent-free successful that collapsing encephalon of yours.”
The character posted nan photograph of Epstein and Trump, amid renewed attraction connected nan president’s narration pinch nan disgraced financier.
The US president appears to beryllium reacting to O’Donnell’s TikTok post past weekend, successful which she slams nan Trump administration’s consequence to nan Texas floods, which person near astatine slightest 129 group dormant and 166 missing, according to an NBC report connected Saturday.
Asked by CNN astir Trump’s threat to region her citizenship, O’Donnell said, “I cognize he can’t do that, but nan Supreme Court has fixed him unbridled powers, and who knows what he tin and can’t do.”
“He shouldn’t beryllium allowed to beryllium doing what he is to immigrants successful nan United States without owed process, but he’s doing it anyway,” she said. “This is not America. This is not democracy.”
Trump and O’Donnell person fought since astatine slightest 2006, aft O’Donnell — past a co-host of “The View” — called Trump a “snake-oil salesman connected Little House On The Prairie,” and said he went bankrupt, which Trump denied.
For his part, Trump has called O’Donnell “a existent loser,” “crude, rude, obnoxious, and dumb,” and “a pig” complete nan years.