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U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he is contemplating revoking the U.S citizenship of talk show host Rosie O’Donnell over her criticism of his administration’s handling of weather forecasting agencies ahead of the deadly Texas floods.
This is the latest outburst in a years-long spat between the two on social media.
Trump invoked the deportation rhetoric in a post on his Truth Social platform: “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
The administration has consistently used such in attempts to deport foreign-born protesters from the country.
“She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!,” he added.
According to U.S. laws, a president cannot revoke the citizenship of an American born in the United States.
O’Donnell, a longtime target of Trump’s insults and barbs was born in New York state.
She moved to Ireland earlier this year with her 12-year-old son after the start of the president’s second term. In a video post on TikTok, she said she would return to the U.S. “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America.”
O’Donnell responded to Trump’s threat in two posts on her Instagram account, saying that the U.S. president opposes her because she “stands in direct opposition with all he represents.”
Trump took umbrage at O’Donnell’s mockery in 2006 when O’Donnell, a comedian and host on The View at the time, mocked Trump over his handling of a controversy concerning a winner of the Miss USA pageant, which Trump had owned.
Trump’s latest salvo at O’Donnell seemed to be in response to a TikTok video she posted this month mourning the 119 deaths in the July 4 floods in Texas and blaming Trump’s widespread defunding of environmental research and science agencies involved in forecasting major natural disasters.
“What a horror story in Texas,” O’Donnell said in the video. “And you know but, when the president guts all the early warning systems and the weathering forecast abilities of the government, these are the results that we’re gonna start to see on a daily basis.”
Trump has faced mounting questions over whether more could have been done to protect and warn residents ahead of the Texas flooding, which hit with astonishing speed in the pre-dawn hours of the U.S. Independence Day holiday on July 4 and killed at least 120, including dozens of children.
On Friday, the president visited Texas and defended the government’s response to the disaster, saying his agencies “did an incredible job under the circumstances.”
