Trump threatens to revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s U.S. citizenship

President Donald Trump says helium is considering “taking away” the U.S. citizenship of a longtime rival, histrion and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, contempt a decades-old Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits specified an enactment by the government.

“Because of the information that Rosie O’Donnell is not successful the champion interests of our Great Country, I americium giving superior information to taking distant her Citizenship,” Mr. Trump wrote successful a societal media station connected Saturday (July 12, 2025). He added that O'Donnell, who moved to Ireland successful January, should enactment successful Ireland “if they privation her.”

The 2 person criticized each different publically for years, an often bitter back-and-forth that predates Mr. Trump’s engagement successful politics. In caller days, Ms. O’Donnell connected societal media denounced Mr. Trump and caller moves by his administration, including the signing of a monolithic GOP-backed taxation breaks and spending cuts plan.

It's conscionable the latest menace by Mr. Trump to revoke the citizenship of radical with whom helium has publically disagreed, astir precocious his erstwhile advisor and one-time ally, Elon Musk.

But Ms. O'Donnell's concern is notably antithetic from Mr. Musk, who was calved successful South Africa. Ms. O'Donnell was calved successful the United States and has a law close to U.S. citizenship. The U.S. State Department notes connected its website that U.S. citizens by commencement oregon naturalization whitethorn relinquish U.S. nationality by taking definite steps – but lone if the enactment is performed voluntary and with the volition of relinquishing U.S. citizenship.

Amanda Frost, a instrumentality prof astatine the University of Virginia School of Law, noted the Supreme Court ruled successful a 1967 lawsuit that the Fourteen Amendment of the Constitution prevents the authorities from taking distant citizenship.

“The president has nary authorization to instrumentality distant the citizenship of a native-born U.S. citizen," Ms. Frost said successful an email Saturday. “In short, we are federation founded connected the rule that the radical take the government; the authorities cannot take the people.”

Ms. O'Donnell moved to Ireland aft Mr. Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to triumph his 2nd term. She has said she's successful the process of obtaining Irish citizenship based connected household lineage.

Responding to Mr. Trump connected Saturday, Ms. O’Donnell wrote connected societal media that she had upset the president and “add maine to the database of radical who reason him astatine each turn.”