Rosie O’Donnell viciously clapped back after President Donald Trump once again warned that she could lose her U.S. citizenship for fleeing to Ireland.
The president used Truth Social to issue the latest jab at his long-standing celebrity nemesis.
“As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship,” Trump wrote.
“She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!”
Donald Trump Truth Social Post 09:43 PM EST 09/03/25
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! pic.twitter.com/EOmoUTMnyN
— Fan Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) September 4, 2025
O’Donnell, who has frequently positioned herself as one of Trump’s most outspoken critics, quickly fired back on her Substack.
“He can’t do that because it’s against the Constitution, and even the Supreme Court has not given him the right to do that,” she told her readers.
“He’s not allowed to do that, the only way you’re allowed to take away someone’s citizenship is if they renounce it themselves, and I will never renounce my American citizenship.”
America mourns today as Rosie O'Donnell (63) is found alive. pic.twitter.com/9Utg13Mx4D
— Giordano Bruno (@GioBruno1600) July 25, 2025
The actress also mocked the president in an Instagram post the same day.
“Banishing me again? Logan Roy would be proud,” she wrote, referencing the cutthroat media patriarch from HBO’s “Succession.”
ROSIE O'DONNELL responds to Trump threatening to revoke her citizenship and calling her a bad American:
"Banishing me again? Logan Roy would be proud. I'm the distraction — EPSTEIN SURVIVORS are the reckoning and your gold lamé throne is melting." pic.twitter.com/4lWA2TLZBw
— Annie van Leur (@AnnevanLeur) September 4, 2025
In the same post, O’Donnell added, “EPSTEIN SURVIVORS are the reckoning and your gold lamé throne is melting.”
Trump dismissed bipartisan pressure to release documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, calling them a “Democrat hoax” designed to distract from his administration’s accomplishments.
The pair’s continued verbal sparring is not new. Back in July, Trump made a similar statement suggesting that stripping O’Donnell’s citizenship would be in “the best interests of our Great Country.”
President Trump on Jeffrey Epstein Files: "This is a Democrat hoax that never ends…I think it's enough because I think we should talk about the greatness of our country and the success that we're having…that's what I want to talk about…not the Epstein hoax." pic.twitter.com/0CowxRnOVk
— CSPAN (@cspan) September 3, 2025
At that time, he even labeled O’Donnell a “Threat to Humanity.”
“Go ahead and try, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. I’m not yours to silence I never was,” she snapped in reply.
Their feud dates back nearly two decades, beginning in 2006 when O’Donnell criticized Trump’s management of the Miss USA pageant during her stint on “The View.”
EPIC Trump TRUTH ™️ :
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… pic.twitter.com/bOMrzZBg9B
— Taxman™️ (@TaxmanTm) July 12, 2025
Nearly a decade later, during a 2015 Republican primary debate, then-candidate Trump’s retort when asked about derogatory comments toward women summed it up: “Only Rosie O’Donnell.”
O’Donnell relocated to Ireland earlier this year following Trump’s sweeping 2024 electoral win against Kamala Harris.
Explaining her move, she said on TikTok, “When it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.”
Only Rosie O'Donnell 🤣🤣 https://t.co/OdIzhvj6Ne pic.twitter.com/cp3CnRhprM
— Franklin Bist (@franklinbist) July 6, 2025
Reports indicate she is still pursuing Irish citizenship with plans to become a dual national.
Recently, O’Donnell found herself under fire over her commentary about a deadly mass shooting incident in Minnesota.
Following the Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis that claimed the lives of two children, she posted a video linking the gunman to Trump supporters and white supremacy.
“Saw about the Minnesota shooting, and it brought me right back to Columbine in 1999 when I just could not get it through my head that students in American were shooting each other in schools,” she said.
“This was a church inside a Catholic school. And what do you know? This was a white guy, Republican, MAGA person, what do you know? White supremacist.”
Those claims were quickly debunked when the shooter was identified as a self-described transgender woman with a fixation on past school shootings.
O’Donnell deleted the video and later posted an apology. “I knew a lot of you were very upset about the video I made before I went away for a few days,” she admitted.
@rosie my apologies to maga for saying the school shooter was one of u – that is incorrect- i made a mistake – i didn’t research- im sorry- i assumed and thats always wrong – #uniteamerica #RonlyHOPE
“You are right. I did not do my due diligence before I made that emotional statement, and I said things about the shooter that were incorrect.”
“I assumed, like most shooters, they followed a standard MO and had standard feelings of you know, NRA-loving kind of gun people,” she continued.
“The truth is, I messed up and when you mess up, you fess up. I’m sorry, this is my apology video and I hope it’s enough.”
The former talk show host also generated buzz in August with claims that ABC may cancel her former program.
“You know what I just read today? ABC is ‘reviewing the liberal bias’ on ‘The View,’” she said in a TikTok post. “The show with five women speaking their own opinions.”
“That’s the threat now,” she added. “They say they’re not canceling it, they’re just ‘reviewing the bias,’ which is code for — we’re gonna cancel it, we’re just trying to soften you up first.”
O’Donnell claimed the move was more about silencing opposition than addressing bias.
“Because it’s not enough to run the country into the ground, you have to control what people SEE, what they HEAR, what they think,” she argued.
“And ‘The View?’ Well, that’s a little too much woman, a little too much truth — a little too much Joy Behar saying, ‘I don’t think the insurrection was a tourist visit, Karen.’ Apparently, the truth is dangerous now.”
“They say they want ‘balance,’ but what they mean is silence,” she ranted. “Silence anything that doesn’t praise the orange messiah and his golden escalator of lies.”
Reports indicate Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic met with the show’s hosts and executive producer, encouraging them to steer discussions away from politics.
While not a direct order, the suggestion reportedly upset several hosts, including Ana Navarro, who argued their audience expected political commentary.
O’Donnell, in her commentary, insisted the effort was not about correcting bias but enforcing compliance.
“This isn’t about bias, this is about obedience. This is about removing any program that doesn’t align with Trumpism — soft fascism in full lashes with commercial breaks,” she said.
O’Donnell claimed that right-wing politicians went after journalists, educators, and librarians, before coming for entertainers.
“It would be funny if it weren’t so terrifying, because when the only voices left on TV are nodding along to conspiracy theories about wind turbines causing autism, we are not in a democracy anymore. We are in a dictatorship with good lighting,” she stated.
“What they’re really trying to do is shut us up. All of us. And we’ve seen what happens when women are silenced,” O’Donnell concluded.