Comedian and actress Rosie O’Donnell responded to President Donald Trump‘s threats to take away her U.S. citizenship by calling him a “cornered rat” who cannot escape the allegations of being named in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Why It Matters
In a post to Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump wrote: “We are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship,” adding that she is “not a Great American.” The post echoed previous remarks from Trump, who in July wrote on social media that he was giving “serious consideration” to revoking her citizenship, saying that she was “not in the best interests of our great country.”
Trump also mentioned her by name to Irish prime minister, Micheál Martin, when he visited the Oval Office in March.
Trump and O’Donnell have been involved in a feud for nearly two decades, which began in 2006 when the former co-host of The View questioned Trump’s moral character during his tenure as owner of the Miss USA pageant. Trump fired back almost a decade later, invoking her name during a 2015 presidential debate when asked why he calls women he dislikes “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals,” drawing applause and laughter from the debate crowd.
What To Know
O’Donnell appeared on ex-CNN anchor and journalist Jim Acosta‘s podcast on Thursday, asked whether she was aware of Trump’s newest threats sent in her direction.
The actress, who said she heard about the threat from a friend in Los Angeles, moved to Ireland in January with her youngest child, Dakota, after Trump was reelected.
“It’s the Epstein files, it’s the testifying of the survivors that he tried to cover up with the planes, with the flyover,” O’Donnell told Acosta. “It’s unbelievable how obvious he is about everything that he does. Could you say, ‘I’m guilty without saying I’m guilty,’ more than having a flyover during their press conference?
“The time is up and he knows it. He’s like a cornered rat and he doesn’t know where to go or what to do. So, he goes into his bag of tricks, and one of his bag of tricks is, let’s make fun of Rosie O’Donnell and threaten her—even though he’s threatened me before but never done anything.”
She said that he’s threatened to sue her “for 20-something years,” and also threatened to take her wife away when she was married.
“He is deranged and I believe he’s suffering from dementia and other very serious medical complications. … I think there is a line in the sand with people raping children. This is a sex trafficking international cover-up, and he’s in the middle of it.”
Exclusive: @Rosie O’Donnell responds to Trump’s threat to revoke her U.S. citizenship. She says “he’s like a cornered rat” because of the Epstein files. Full interview on Substack, YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. See links in bio. pic.twitter.com/IxLLbHM1kI
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) September 5, 2025
During Trump’s last threat in July to pull her citizenship, O’Donnell also brought up his relationship to Epstein by posting a picture of the pair with a caption: “Hey Donald, you’re rattled again? 18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours.”
What People Are Saying
O’Donnell also used her social platform to respond to Trump, whose Truth Social post included a digitally altered image of O’Donnell that shows a stretched out face.
“Banishing me again? Logan Roy would be proud,” O’Donnell said on Instagram, referencing Brian Cox’s character in the HBO program Succession.
“EPSTEIN SURVIVORS are the reckoning and your gold lamé throne is melting,” she added.
What’s Next
Trump does not have the legal authority to revoke citizenship of someone born in the U.S., unless in cases of fraud. The 1967 Supreme Court decision in Afroyim v. Rusk ruled that the U.S. government cannot revoke an individual’s citizenship without their consent.
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