Donald Trump posted on Saturday that he’s giving “severe consideration” to revoking Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship.
The president posted on Reality Social, “Due to the truth that Rosie O’Donnell will not be in the perfect pursuits of our Nice Nation, I’m giving severe consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Risk to Humanity, and will stay within the fantastic Nation of Eire, if they need her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
The president can’t revoke the citizenship of somebody born within the U.S., one thing that authorized students have lengthy famous. The 14th Modification to the Structure says, “All individuals born or naturalized in the USA and topic to the jurisdiction thereof, are residents of the USA and of the State whereby they reside. No State shall make or implement any legislation which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of residents of the USA.”
O’Donnell, who was born in New York, is a longtime Trump nemesis. She moved her household to Eire earlier this 12 months, saying in a TikTok video that “when it’s protected for all residents to have equal rights there in America, that’s once we will contemplate coming again.”
O’Donnell has continued to be crucial of Trump on TikTok and different social media, posting earlier this week that Trump “has put this nation in peril” along with his “horrible choices.” She stated that the cuts to the Nationwide Climate Service to the deaths within the flash floods in Texas. “These are the outcomes that we’re going to see every day,” she stated.
After Trump’s Reality Social publish, O’Donnell wrote on TikTok, “the potus girls n gents is a shame to all our lovely nation stands for – he’s a hazard to the nation – a mentally in poor health untreated legal who lied to america for a decade on the apprentice – thanks mark burnett – and u fell for it – its so tragic – had u grown up in Ny – as i did and he did – u too would know what a complete idiot he’s – add me to the listing of people that oppose him at each flip – its now or by no means america 🇺🇸 – my little posts from dublin upset him – go arrest just a few brown folks u actually evil man youngster.”
Trump has sought to finish the observe of “birthright” citizenship by way of govt order. That has been challenged within the courts, and this previous week a decide blocked Trump’s effort.
Regardless of signing an govt order earlier this 12 months to make sure that the federal authorities wouldn’t have interaction in “any conduct that might unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen,” Trump has sought to sanction dissenting voices. Amongst different issues, he just lately threatened to prosecute CNN for reporting on an app that tracks sightings of ICE brokers, and earlier this 12 months barred AP reporters and photographers from the Oval Workplace and different White Home venues as a result of their Stylebook didn’t acknowledge the president’s change of the title of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
In Might, Trump referred to as for a “main investigation” of Bruce Springsteen, alleging that Kamala Harris paid for his endorsement throughout her 2024 marketing campaign. Her marketing campaign has denied that declare. Springsteen has been crucial of Trump whereas on a European tour, calling the president’s administration “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous.”
