Rosie O’Donnell: Comedian laughs at Trump’s absurd threat

Rosie O’Donnell (63) is unimpressed by Donald Trump (79) youngest attack against her. The US President had threatened the comedian and actress on Saturday on his social media channel Truth Social to deprive her of American citizenship. As justification, Trump said that O’Donnell was “a threat to humanity”.

The entertainer born in New York reacted calmly to the threat on Sunday. In the Irish radio show, she explained that she was only one person in a long list of artists, activists and celebrities who were threatened by Trump. “So I didn’t take it personally, but I tell you the way he is, encouraged people like him,” said O’Donnell.

The current escalation is the preliminary climax of a twenty -year public feud between the two. Trump had written on Truth Social: “Due to the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interest of our great country, I seriously consider to withdraw citizenship. She is a threat to humanity and should stay in the wonderful country if you want it.”

O’Donnell moved to Ireland at the beginning of the year after Trump won a second term in the White House. But both continue their exchange of blows from a distance. Hours after Trump’s threat, the comedian posted that Trump shows together with the convicted and now deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. She writes: “You call me a threat to humanity – but I am everything you fear: a loud woman, a queer woman, a mother who says the truth, an American who has left the country before you set it on fire.”

O’Donnell continues: “You are everything that is wrong with America. You want to withdraw my citizenship? Try it calmly, King Joffrey with orange spray brown. I don’t belong to you, you can’t silence me, I never could.” With King Joffrey, she alluded to the malignant ruler from the “Game of Thrones” series.

The president’s threat also raises legal questions – there is no obvious legal way to deprive a citizen born in the United States. Trump’s handling of presidential powers is once again up for discussion.

The Trump administration has already tried to circumcise civil rights and questioned the citizenship of various critics – including Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, but also born in the United States like O’Donnell.