Rosie O’Donnell goes scorched earth on Trump after he threatens to revoke her citizenship
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Rosie O’Donnell went scorched earth on Donald Trump on Saturday with a series of posts claiming Trump was on Jeffrey Epstein’s client list and was a guest at the billionaire’s infamous island.
Rosie’s clapback came after the president threatened to revoke O’Donnell’s American citizenship, calling the comedian and longtime critic a ‘threat to humanity’ in a fiery post on Truth Social.
‘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,’ Trump, 79, wrote earlier in the day.
‘She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!’
Under US law, a president cannot revoke the citizenship of an American born in the United States. O’Donnell was born in New York state.
Over the course of almost a dozen posts the comedian and former chat show host laid into Trump and any association he may have had with Epstein, but some focused squarely on the president himself.
‘Thirty-plus years of sexual abuse – The known victims,’ O’Donnell posted along with a profile shot of Trump and a list of women who have accused him of sexual abuse dating back to the 1980s.
Another posting showcased a photo montage showcasing Trump meeting Epstein and his convicted sex trafficker girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. In the center was a Truth Social from Trump pleading for people to ‘STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN!!!!!’.
Rosie O’Donnell went scorched earth on Donald Trump on Saturday with a series of posts claiming Trump was on Jeffrey Epstein ‘s client list and was a guest at the billionaire’s infamous island
The comedian and former chat show host laid into Trump and any association he may have had with Epstein, but some focused squarely on the president himself
Other posts designed to irk the president further saw a photoshopped picture of Trump wearing one of his signature red MAGA caps only with the words changed referring to Epstein
Other posts designed to irk the president further saw a photoshopped picture of Trump wearing one of his signature red MAGA caps only with the words changed to read: ‘I’m on the list’ referring to the supposed client list Epstein kept.
Earlier this week the White House has said that there is in fact no ‘client list,’ a narrative that some question.
O’Donnell then posted a message aimed squarely in response to Trump’s suggestion to revoke her citizenship.
‘Hey Donald – you’re rattled again? 18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours. 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 began.
‘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,’ she went on.
‘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 – Rosie.’
President Donald Trump says he is considering “taking away” the U.S. citizenship of a longtime rival , actress and comedian Rosie O´Donnell
Responding to Trump on Saturday, O´Donnell wrote her own message on social media noting how she had upset the president
One posting showcased a photo montage showcasing Trump meeting Epstein and his convicted sex trafficker girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. In the center was a Truth Social from Trump pleading for people to ‘STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN!!!!!’.
Responding directly to Trump’s threat she wrote how the president opposes her because she ‘stands in direct opposition with all he represents.’
‘The president of the USA has always hated the fact that i see him for who he is – a criminal con man sexual abusing liar out to harm our nation to serve himself – this is why i moved to Ireland,’ O’Donnell wrote in another posting on Saturday.
‘He is a dangerous old soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy compassion and basic humanity- i stand in direct opposition all he represents … ur a bad joke who cant form a coherent sentence.’
In other blatant attacks on Trump, O’Donnell posted artwork of the president stating ‘He rapes’, while in another she posted a tweet stating: ‘Damn, I wish Trump would go after the Epstein list pedophiles the way he’s going at Rosie O’Donnell rn.’
‘Let’s not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about,’ Trump concluded, casting the controversy as a ploy to derail his political momentum.
Outsiders pointed out how much energy Trump was spending on Rosie O’Donnell compared to pedophiles who associated with Epstein
O’Donnell posted to Instagram a message aimed at Trump stating she ‘sees him for who he is’
In other blatant attacks on Trump, O’Donnell posted artwork of the president stating ‘He rapes’
O’Donnell, a longtime target of Trump’s insults and jabs, moved to Ireland earlier this year with her 12-year-old son after the start of the president’s second term.
She has said she’s in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship based on family lineage.
O’Donnell, said in a March TikTok video that she would return to the US ‘when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America.’
Trump’s outburst followed O’Donnell’s July 7 HuffPost interview, in which she discussed her decades-long feud with him and her 2024 move to Ireland, made ahead of Trump’s reelection.
Trump’s disdain for O’Donnell dates back to 2006 when O’Donnell, a comedian and host on The View at the time, mocked Trump over his handling of a controversy concerning a winner of the Miss USA pageant, which Trump had owned.
‘I look at America and I feel overwhelmingly depressed,’ O’Donnell, 63, said, citing her need to protect her mental health and care for her 12-year-old son, who has autism.
‘I knew what [the Trump administration] was planning to do, because I read Project 2025. I know what he’s capable of. And I didn’t want to put myself through another four years of him being in charge.’
Watching Trump’s second term from abroad, O’Donnell added: ‘I think it’s as bad as everyone worried it would be. I believe fascism has taken a foothold in the United States.’
Jeffrey Epstein is seen together with Donald Trump during a visit to his Mar-a-Lago estate
President Donald Trump speaks to the press before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Friday as he headed to Texas to tour the areas devastated by flash flooding over the Fourth of July weekend which left at least 120 people dead
She also criticized a new bill she claims grants Trump his own ‘secret police,’ with a budget ‘greater than the money we give to Israel, which is already unbelievably high.’
‘I look at America, and it feels tragic,’ she said. ‘I feel sad. I feel overwhelmingly depressed. I don’t understand how we got here.’
During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly brought up O’Donnell, including during the first Republican primary debate in August 2015.
When moderator Megyn Kelly questioned his use of terms like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ and ‘slobs’ to describe women, he replied, ‘Only Rosie O’Donnell.’
Her name eventually resurfaced during a debate with Hillary Clinton, when Trump said, ‘Rosie O’Donnell has been very vicious to me. I said very tough things to her, and I think everybody would agree she deserves it.’
O’Donnell responded in a now-deleted post on X, calling him an ‘orange anus.’
After Trump’s first election, O’Donnell told W Magazine in October 2017 that she struggled to cope with his presidency, saying it took her a year to regain emotional balance.
‘I seriously worry whether I personally will be able to live through [his presidency] and whether the nation will be able to survive,’ she said. ‘It’s a terrifying concept, on the brink of nuclear war with a madman in charge.’
Donald Trump together with his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell all posing together at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, in February 2000
In a sprawling social media post on Saturday evening, Trump once again lashed out at the renewed attention on Jeffrey Epstein, dismissing the disgraced financier as a distraction
Trump’s latest jab at O’Donnell seemed to be in response to a TikTok video she posted this month mourning the 119 deaths in the July 4 floods in Texas and blaming Trump’s widespread cuts to environmental and science agencies involved in forecasting major natural disasters.
‘What a horror story in Texas,’ O’Donnell said in the video. ‘And you know, when the president guts all the early warning systems and the weathering forecast abilities of the government, these are the results that we’re gonna start to see on a daily basis.’
The Trump administration, as well as local and state officials, have faced mounting questions over whether more could have been done to protect and warn residents ahead of the Texas flooding, which struck with astonishing speed in the pre-dawn hours of July 4 and killed at least 120, including dozens of children.
On Friday, Trump visited Texas and defended the government’s response to the disaster, saying his agencies ‘did an incredible job under the circumstances.’
In a sprawling social media post on Saturday evening, Trump once again lashed out at the renewed attention on Jeffrey Epstein, dismissing the disgraced financier as a distraction orchestrated by his political enemies and insisting the so-called ‘Epstein Files’ are part of a smear campaign aimed at undermining his administration.
‘All over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein,’ Trump wrote, complaining that ‘selfish people’ were damaging his ‘perfect’ administration by focusing on the late sex offender.
He accused figures like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, John Brennan, and ‘the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration’ of fabricating the Epstein documents – likening them to the ‘FAKE’ Steele dossier used in the Russia probe.
Trump went further, suggesting that if the Epstein files actually contained anything damaging to the MAGA movement, his critics would have already weaponized them.
‘Why didn’t these Radical Left Lunatics release the Epstein Files?’ he asked. ‘If there was ANYTHING in there that could have hurt the MAGA Movement, why didn’t they use it?’
He also criticized the FBI for spending ‘month after month looking at nothing but the same old, Radical Left inspired Documents on Jeffrey Epstein,’ and urged the agency to refocus on voter fraud and political corruption.
