Rosie O’Donnell revealed she secretly traveled to the USA after leaving the nation amid Donald Trump’s second time period as president.
“I used to be just lately dwelling for 2 weeks and I didn’t actually inform anybody,” O’Donnell, 63, mentioned after calling into SiriusXM’s Cuomo Mornings on Friday, February 13. “I simply went to see my household. I needed to see how exhausting it might be for me to get in and overseas. I needed to really feel what it felt like. I needed to carry my kids once more. And I hadn’t been dwelling in over a 12 months.”
O’Donnell relocated to Eire in January 2025, simply days earlier than Trump’s second presidential inauguration.
“(I’m) within the technique of getting my Irish citizenship, as I’ve Irish grandparents,” the previous TV host defined by way of Instagram in March 2025. “And that’s what’s happening, and that’s the place I’ve been and what I’ve been doing. And though I used to be by no means somebody who thought I might transfer to a different nation, that’s what I made a decision can be finest for myself and my 12-year-old baby. And right here we’re.”
Rosie O’Donnell’s longstanding feud with President Donald Trump dates again almost 20 years. Whereas the 2 was buddies — O’Donnell has even claimed to have attended Trump’s 1993 marriage ceremony to his ex-wife Marla Maples — a really public spat on The View in 2006 spiraled right into a nasty disagreement that carries (…)
Months later, President Trump threatened to make use of his presidential powers to revoke O’Donnell’s citizenship. (In line with political students, the president doesn’t have the ability to strip a U.S. citizen of their authorized standing.)
“Due to the truth that Rosie O’Donnell just isn’t in one of the best pursuits of our Nice Nation, I’m giving critical consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump claimed by way of Reality Social in July 2025. “She is a Risk to Humanity, and may stay within the fantastic Nation of Eire, if they need her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
O’Donnell replied to the president’s risk by way of Instagram.
“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. Because of this I moved to Eire.” (Trump, who’s allegedly named within the Epstein recordsdata greater than one million instances and has been accused of sexual abuse and/or harassment by over a two dozen ladies, has denied all allegations of sexual misconduct.)
On Friday, O’Donnell reiterated that she has no regrets about her choice to depart the USA for Eire amid Trump’s second presidential time period.
Ellen DeGeneres is exhibiting her help for buddy Rosie O’Donnell as President Donald Trump erroneously claims to threaten her U.S. citizenship. “Good for you @rosie,” DeGeneres, 67, wrote by way of Instagram on Sunday, July 13, sharing screenshots of the president’s publish on his social media app, Reality Social, and O’Donnell’s subsequent response. On Saturday, July 12, (…)
“I’ve to let you know, it looks like a really totally different nation, a really totally different place to me as a result of for a 12 months I haven’t been watching the information,” she mentioned. “I haven’t been watching American tradition tv. I’ve been in a spot the place movie star worship doesn’t exist. I’ve been in a spot the place there’s extra stability to the information. There’s extra stability to reside. It’s not everybody making an attempt to get extra, extra, extra. It’s a really totally different tradition. And I felt the USA in a very totally different method than I ever had earlier than I left.”
She continued, “So I don’t remorse leaving in any respect. I feel I did what I wanted to do to save lots of myself, my baby, and my sanity. And I’m very glad that I’m not within the midst of it there as a result of the power that I felt whereas in the USA was, if I may use the simplest phrase I can consider, it was scary. There’s a sense that one thing is admittedly unsuitable and nobody is doing something about it.”