Rosie O’Donnell says her daughter is holding President Donald Trump personally responsible for her move to Ireland and that she sees it as a broader damage to the country.
“My daughter is now saying, ‘Damn him. Damn Trump,'” O’Donnell said during an appearance on “The Jim Acosta Show.”
She remembered her daughter hitting her hands on the table in anger and saying, “He forced us to move for our own safety… and now he’s destroying the country.”
Rosie O’Donnell fumes after Trump threatens to revoke her US citizenship
O’Donnell accepted the challenge of protecting his child from political turmoil while facing the realities of his situation.
“She lives here. She hears what I’m telling you,” O’Donnell said. She explained that her daughter “recognizes what’s happening.”
The comedian also emphasized, “I’m thinking I have to stand up to that somehow. No, no… I don’t want to. Someone could take advantage of me, you know. Yes. I spent 22 years. I don’t really need to do anything else. And I don’t want my child to be so affected by it.”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson criticized O’Donnell after the comedian’s latest attack on Trump, telling Fox News Digital, “Rosie O’Donnell is clearly suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome and it is better for the entire country that she decided to step away.”
O’Donnell relocated to Ireland after Trump threatened to strip her of her US citizenship.
In October, she announced she was applying for Irish citizenship, citing her grandparents’ roots in Ireland and self-described “self-imposed (political exile)”.
O’Donnell moved to Ireland in January, just five days before President Trump’s 2025 inauguration. (Getty Images)
In an interview with the UK’s Daily Telegraph, the 63-year-old said, “I’m applying for my Irish citizenship and it’s going to be approved because my grandparents were from there, and that’s all you need. It would be nice to have my Irish citizenship, especially since Trump keeps threatening to take away my citizenship.”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson responded at the time, telling Fox News Digital, “What great news for America!”
O’Donnell revealed her international move in March, revealing that she had relocated to Ireland just five days before President Trump’s 2025 inauguration.
Sharing the news with her TikTok followers, she described the change as “pretty amazing.”
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The tension between the two dates back nearly two decades, beginning in 2006 when O’Donnell criticized Trump while co-hosting “The View.” (Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images)
The feud between O’Donnell and Trump flared up again in July, when he warned in Truth Social that he was considering stripping the comedian of her US citizenship.
“Due to the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our great country, I am seriously considering stripping her of her citizenship,” he wrote. “He is a menace to humanity, and if they want him, they should live in the wonderful country of Ireland. God bless America!”
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Rosie O’Donnell on her talk show in New York City in 1996. (Frank Michelotta/Getty Images)
O’Donnell fired back on social media, saying Trump “has always hated the way I see him the way he is.”
Under the United States Constitution, the President does not have the power to take away the citizenship of anyone born in the country, meaning that since O’Donnell was born in New York, his citizenship is protected by the 14th Amendment.
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The tension between the two dates back nearly two decades, beginning in 2006 when O’Donnell criticized Trump while co-hosting “The View.”
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