Rosie O’Donnell has confirmed that she is within the strategy of getting her Irish citizenship amid President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to revoke her U.S. citizenship.
“I am applying and about to be approved for my Irish citizenship as my grandparents were from there and that’s all you need,” the comic stated in a new interview with The Each day Telegraph, revealed on Monday
O’Donnell added, “It will be good to have my Irish citizenship, especially since Trump keeps threatening to take away mine.”
The White Home, after all, discovered the information thrilling.
“What great news for America!” White Home spokesperson Abigail Jackson advised Fox Information Digital on Monday.
Trump first threatened to remove O’Donnell’s citizenship in July, as he referred to as the “A League of Their Own” actor a “threat to humanity.”
“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,” he stated on the time. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
He as soon as once more threatened O’Donnell’s citizenship in September, alongside a digitally altered photograph of the comic.
“As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship,” Trump wrote on his social community, Reality Social.
“She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!” he added.
Paul A. Gowder, a professor of regulation at Northwestern College’s Pritzker Faculty of Regulation, beforehand advised HuffPost that Trump’s citizenship threats are “unadulterated dictator behavior” and “a familiar practice of authoritarians.”
“He seems to view it not as an inalienable right but as a status that he can grant and take away at will, a meaningless instrument of his personal public policy,” Gowder added.
