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 shouldn’t be in the most effective pursuits of our Nice Nation, I’m giving severe consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Menace to Humanity, and will stay within the fantastic Nation of Eire, if they need her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
The president can not 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 yr, saying in a TikTok video that “when it’s secure 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 selections.” She mentioned 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 each day,” she mentioned.
Trump has sought to finish the follow of “birthright” citizenship by way of government order. That has been challenged within the courts, and this previous week a choose blocked Trump’s effort.
Regardless of signing an government order earlier this yr 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 lately threatened to prosecute CNN for reporting on an app that tracks sightings of ICE brokers, and earlier this yr 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 known 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.”
