Trump ‘giving serious thought’ to revoking lesbian comedian Rosie O’Donnell’s US citizenship
Donald Trump continues to threaten to revoke the US citizenship of Rosie O’Donnell. (Andrew HarnikAmanda Edwards/Getty Images)
Donald Trump continues to threaten to revoke the US citizenship of Rosie O’Donnell. (Andrew HarnikAmanda Edwards/Getty Images)
US president Donald Trump has said he’s “giving serious thought” to revoking lesbian comedian Rosie O’Donnell’s US citizenship, despite the fact he can’t do so due to the 14th amendment of the US constitution.
Taking to his own social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday (3 September), he wrote: “As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship. She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!”
He accompanied the post with a close-up image of O’Donnell’s face that appears to have been doctored to make it wider.
The post, with the same image, was re-shared by the official X page of The White House.
Incapable of being so! pic.twitter.com/J7CoO5Tow2
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 4, 2025
In March, Rosie O’Donnell shared that she is no longer living in the US. In a nine-minute TikTok video the former talk show host and A League of Their Own star said it had been “heartbreaking” to watch political chaos unfurl in America since Trump came to power.
O’Donnell shared that she moved to Ireland on 15 January, several days ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, and said that the experience in her new country had been “pretty wonderful”.
Though O’Donnell didn’t mention Donald Trump by name or his slew of attacks against the LGBTQ+ community, she has spent much of her career being a vocal critic of Trump.
“She is a threat to humanity”
In response, writing on Truth Social on 12 July, the president said: “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.”
O’Donnell responded by taking to Instagram to call him “everything that is wrong with America”. She was supported by former talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who shared Trump’s and O’Donnell’s posts, writing: “Good for you, [Rosie]”.
In August, O’Donnell expressed her fear that US morning chat show The View could soon be pulled off air for not aligning politically with Trump, who she said views “the truth” as “dangerous”.
Share your thoughts! Let us know in the comments below, and remember to keep the conversation respectful.
