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President Donald Trump reignited a decadeslong feud with comedian Rosie O'Donnell connected Saturday, taking to his Truth Social level to constitute helium was considering revoking her citizenship.
"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," Trump wrote. "She is simply a Threat to Humanity, and should stay successful the fantastic Country of Ireland, if they privation her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"
Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court expert and prof astatine Georgetown Law, said Saturday that Trump's menace of "coercive expatriation" was "patently unconstitutional."
"For bully reasons, it is hard to denaturalize a U.S. national and adjacent harder to expatriate one," Vladeck wrote successful April. "Congress has provided for lone a fistful of circumstances successful which the enforcement subdivision is empowered to prosecute specified a move; and the Supreme Court has recognized meaningful law limits (and an entitlement to meaningful judicial review) adjacent successful those cases."
CNN has reached retired to the White House astir what prompted the president's menace - but O'Donnell drew attraction past play aft she posted a video to TikTok slamming the Trump administration's effect to the Texas floods, claiming the president "gut[ted] each of the aboriginal informing systems and the weatheringforecast abilities of the government," stymying the national response.
O'Donell moved to Ireland soon before Trump's inauguration successful January, telling CNN successful April that Trump's reelection prompted the move.
"I knew aft speechmaking Project 2025 that if Trump got in, it was clip for maine and my nonbinary kid to permission the country," she told CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown. "I person nary regrets. Not a time has gone by that I thought it was the incorrect decision. I was welcomed with unfastened arms."
Responding to the president's station Saturday, O'Donnell wrote connected Instagram, "you privation to revoke my citizenship? spell up and try, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. i'm not yours to silence. one ne'er was."
Presenter Rosie O'Donnell speaks astatine the 30th yearly GLAAD Media Awards, May 4, 2019, successful New York.
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Trump and O'Donnell have clashed since astatine slightest 2006, aft O'Donell - past a co-host of "The View" - called Trump a "snake-oil salesman connected Little House On The Prairie," and said helium went bankrupt, which Trump denied.
For his part, Trump has called O'Donnell "a existent loser," "crude, rude, obnoxious, and dumb," and "a pig" implicit the years.
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