President Donald Trump mentioned Saturday that he’s contemplating revoking comic Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship, a dramatic escalation of Trump’s threats to make use of the chief department to focus on his opponents.
“Due to the truth that Rosie O’Donnell isn’t in the very best pursuits of our Nice Nation, I’m giving critical consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote in a submit on Reality Social.
He known as O’Donnell a “risk to humanity” and mentioned that she ought to “stay within the great Nation of Eire,” which is the place she at the moment resides.
O’Donnell moved to Eire in January following Trump’s re-election.
There isn’t a authorized precedent for a president revoking the citizenship of a U.S.-born citizen, and such a transfer has no authorized foundation underneath present legislation.
It is not the primary time that Trump has talked about an opponent’s U.S. citizenship in a not-so-subtle risk.
Trump earlier this month falsely questioned the citizenship of Zohran Mamdani, who gained New York Metropolis’s Democratic mayoral major.
“Lots of people are saying he is right here illegally,” Trump mentioned of Mamdani.
“We’ll take a look at all the things. Ideally, he’ll become a lot lower than a communist. However proper now he is a communist. That is not a socialist.”
O’Donnell has been a vocal Trump critic, and the 2 have publicly feuded for years.
After Trump’s Reality Social, O’Donnell took to Instagram to lob her personal insults on the president.
“The president of the usa has all the time hated the truth that i see him for who he’s – a legal con man sexual abusing liar out to hurt our nation to serve himself – that is why i moved to eire,” she wrote.
She mentioned that Trump goes to “deport all who stand in opposition to” his “evil tendencies.”