Ellen DeGeneres has shown support for Rosie O’Donnell after President Donald Trump threatened to revoke O’Donnell’s U.S. citizenship. The former talk show host shared a message on Instagram on Sunday, July 13, just one day after Trump’s social media post about O’Donnell.
According to People, Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday that he was “giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship” because O’Donnell was “not in the best interests of our Great Country.” The president called O’Donnell “a Threat to Humanity” and suggested she should “remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her.”
DeGeneres responded to the news with a carousel post on Instagram featuring screenshots of Trump’s post and O’Donnell’s response. “Good for you,” DeGeneres wrote, tagging O’Donnell in the post.
Trump and O’Donnell continue decades-long public feud
The threat from Trump escalated a two-decade public feud between him and O’Donnell. The New York-born actor and comedian moved to Ireland earlier this year after Trump won a second White House term. O’Donnell told RTÉ Radio’s Sunday with Miriam show that she was the latest in a long list of artists, activists, and celebrities to be threatened by the U.S. president.
O’Donnell responded strongly to Trump’s threat on Instagram. She posted a 1980s-era photograph of Trump with Jeffrey Epstein and wrote that Trump was “everything that is wrong with America.” She challenged the president directly, saying, “You want to revoke my citizenship? Go ahead and try, King Joffrey with a tangerine spray tan, I’m not yours to silence, I never was.”
In a separate post, O’Donnell called Trump “a dangerous old soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy, compassion, and basic humanity.” She explained that she moved to Ireland with her 12-year-old child, Clay, because of Trump’s return to office. Rosie O’Donnell has been a longtime critic of Trump and his administration’s policies, recently questioning everything from his ear injury recovery to his fitness for office.
Legal experts say Trump does not have the power to revoke O’Donnell’s citizenship under the 14th Amendment, which protects citizenship for all people born on U.S. soil. The Trump administration has previously questioned the citizenship of some critics, including people born in the U.S., like O’Donnell.
DeGeneres also recently moved from the U.S. to the English countryside with her wife, Portia de Rossi. A source told PEOPLE in November that DeGeneres told friends her move was motivated by the presidential election, though some insiders suggest the move may have been driven by marital issues and Ellen’s need for control over Portia. O’Donnell later said she was “shocked” that DeGeneres had a similar idea to move, noting that she had never known Ellen to say anything political before.
