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President Donald Trump reignited a decadeslong feud with comic Rosie O’Donnell on Saturday, taking to his Fact Social platform to jot down he was contemplating revoking her citizenship.
“Due to the truth that Rosie O’Donnell isn’t in the most effective pursuits of our Nice Nation, I’m giving severe consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote. “She is a Risk to Humanity, and may stay within the great Nation of Eire, if they need her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court docket analyst and professor at Georgetown Legislation, stated Saturday that Trump’s risk of “coercive expatriation” was “patently unconstitutional.”
“For good causes, it’s tough to denaturalize a U.S. citizen and even tougher to expatriate one,” Vladeck wrote in April. “Congress has supplied for under a handful of circumstances by which the manager department is empowered to pursue such a transfer; and the Supreme Court docket has acknowledged significant constitutional limits (and an entitlement to significant judicial assessment) even in these instances.”
CNN has reached out to the White Home about what prompted the president’s risk — however O’Donnell drew consideration final weekend after she posted a video to TikTok slamming the Trump administration’s response to the Texas floods, claiming the president “intestine[ted] all the early warning methods and the weathering‑forecast talents of the federal government,” stymying the federal response.
O’Donell moved to Eire shortly before Trump’s inauguration in January, telling CNN in April that Trump’s reelection prompted the transfer.
“I knew after studying Venture 2025 that if Trump bought in, it was time for me and my nonbinary little one to go away the nation,” she told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown. “I’ve no regrets. Not a day has passed by that I believed it was the mistaken choice. I used to be welcomed with open arms.”
Responding to the president’s publish Saturday, O’Donnell wrote on Instagram, “you wish to revoke my citizenship? go forward and check out, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. i’m not yours to silence. i by no means was.”
Trump and O’Donnell have clashed since at least 2006, after O’Donell — then a co-host of “The View” — known as Trump a “snake-oil salesman on Little Home On The Prairie,” and stated he went bankrupt, which Trump denied.
For his half, Trump has known as O’Donnell “a real loser,” “crude, rude, obnoxious, and dumb,” and “a pig” over time.
