President Donald Trump and Rosie O’Donnell continued their war of words on Saturday with the president threatening to revoke her citizenship and the comedian posting a picture of Trump alongside disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In a Truth Social post on Saturday morning, Trump indicated he was giving “serious consideration” to revoking his longtime nemesis’s citizenship.
“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 posted.
The president called O’Donnell a “Threat to Humanity” and said she should stay in Ireland.
The potential revocation could run into legal problems, however.
According to the 14th Amendment, Trump does not have the authority to unilaterally take away a person’s citizenship
O’Donnell later responded to the threat by posting a picture of Trump and Epstein on Instagram along with the caption: “Hey donald — you’re rattled again? 18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours.”
She continued: “You call me a threat to humanity — but I’m everything you fear: a loud woman, a queer woman, a mother who tells the truth, an american who got out of the country b4 u set it ablaze; you build walls — I build a life for my autistic kid in a country where decency still exists/you crave loyalty — I teach my children to question power; you sell fear on golf courses — I make art about surviving trauma you lie, you steal, you degrade — I nurture, I create, I persist; 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.”
Trump and O’Donnell have been taking shots at each other for nearly two decades. In December 2006, O’Donnell, a former co-host of The View, criticized Trump’s moral character during his time as owner of the Miss USA pageant.
The comments only escalated over the years, with Trump going after O’Donnell during a 2015 presidential debate and more recently in a conversation with the Irish prime minister in the Oval Office.
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Trump’s most recent jab at O’Donnell comes at a time when his administration is facing criticism over its handling over the release of the Epstein files.
Internal fighting over an alleged Epstein “client list” and the disgraced financier’s cause of death have boiled over into calls for Attorney General Pam Bondi’s resignation and rumored resignations in the FBI’s top brass if that doesn’t happen.