Rosie O’Donnell responded to Donald Trump’s threats to revoke her citizenship in a pointed message to the president that the actress shared on social media.
Trump previously warned that O’Donnell — who was born in America but currently resides in Ireland — “is not in the best interests of our Great Country” and “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, who has long been critical of Trump, fired back at the threat in a lengthy message to the president that she posted on Instagram, alongside a photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. “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,” O’Donnell wrote.
“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,” she added, referencing the Game of Thrones villain.
In an interview with Ireland’s RTE on Sunday, O’Donnell said she “didn’t take [Trump’s attack] personally,” as the president is frequently picking fights with celebrities that don’t agree with him.
“There’s a long list of celebrities he’s threatened, including Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Mark Ruffalo,” O’Donnell said. “There are activists, artists who have always spoken out in their lives and career[s]. It’s part of their public persona and their essence, and he’s against all of us.”
O’Donnell, who moved to Ireland following Trump’s re-election, added of her decision to leave America, “I needed to keep myself healthy and alive and mentally stable enough to raise an autistic child. And that’s the reason I left. I left because I love the United States of America, not because I don’t.”
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She added, “I love democracy and what it stands for. I love the Constitution. I love what our founding fathers represented and made in this world as a beacon of hope and freedom for the rest of the world… But until we own what is true about our country and ourselves, we’re never going to be able to move forward – and until we own what is true about Donald Trump”
From Rolling Stone US
