Earlier this year, we reported that Rosie O’Donnell had fled the United States to move to Ireland. She reportedly did so in response to President Donald Trump taking office for a second time.
Now, O’Donnell is speaking out to reveal that she’s officially applied for foreign citizenship months after fleeing America.
O’Donnell Sounds Off
O’Donnell, 63, is currently in Sydney, Australia. There, she’s performing two comedy shows at the Sydney Opera House.
While promoting these shows, O’Donnell confirmed that she’s in the process of getting Irish citizenship. She also revealed that she has no plans to return to the United States anytime soon.
“I am applying and about to be approved for my Irish citizenship as my grandparents were from there and that’s all you need,” O’Donnell said. “It will be good to have my Irish citizenship, especially since Trump keeps threatening to take away mine.”
“What’s coming is fascism in the United States, pure and simple,” she continued. “Christian white nationalism, and that’s not democracy, and that’s not a democratic republic, and you know, that’s not who we are. I feel that if we let them continue on, we are doomed as a democracy.”
O’Donnell’s Therapist Questions Her Anti-Trump Hatred
This comes one week after O’Donnell admitted that even her own therapist is tired of hearing about how much she obsessively despises Trump. She made this humiliating confession while being interviewed by the MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on her podcast “The Best People.”
“What he’s done now hasn’t even hit us yet,” whined O’Donnell. “And if he’s not stopped now, we have lost our country. I don’t know, Nicolle, how it is that some people cannot see it. My therapist said, ‘Why are you so upset?’ And I said to her, ‘Why are you not?”
Check out O’Donnell’s full comments on this in the video below.
O’Donnell Flees America
We can certainly understand why O’Donnell’s therapist would be tired of hearing about her hatred for Trump. Indeed, O’Donnell has long made no secret of just how obsessive she is when it comes to disliking the current president.
Back in June, O’Donnell admitted to the former CNN host Chris Cuomo that she fled America because of Trump’s second presidential victory. She even described this move as being one of “self-preservation,” since she greatly struggled during Trump’s first presidency.
“During his first go-round, it was very difficult, and I got myself into some bad places,” said O’Donnell. “You know, I was very, very depressed. I was overeating, I was overdrinking. I was so depressed, Chris.”
Trump Threatens O’Donnell’s Citizenship
O’Donnell has been feuding with Trump for decades. Though she instigates many of their battles, Trump has taken his shots at her as well. Last month, he threatened to revoke O’Donnell’s American citizenship for the second time this year.
“As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!”
O’Donnell fired back the next day on her Substack.
“He can’t do that because it’s against the Constitution, and even the Supreme Court has not given him the right to do that … he’s not allowed to do that, the only way you’re allowed to take away someone’s citizenship is if they renounce it themselves, and I will never renounce my American citizenship,” O’Donnell wrote. “I am a very proud citizen of the United States.”
Here’s hoping that Ireland approves O’Donnell’s citizenship as soon as possible, and that she stays there for many years to come. In the end. America is better off without Rosie O’Donnell in it. Good riddance!