Rosie O'Donnell admits secret return to US to 'see if it was safe' after Trump citizenship threat | Daily Mail Online
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Rosie O'Donnell has revealed she secretly returned to the United States to test the waters after President Trump threatened to revoke her citizenship following her move to Ireland last year.
The 63-year-old former talk show host announced in March 2025 that she had relocated to Ireland following Trump's second inauguration, saying she felt unsafe under his leadership and concerned for her family's wellbeing.
The move came amid a long-standing feud with Trump, dating back to her days as a co-host on The View. In July, the former president publicly threatened to strip O'Donnell of her citizenship.
Speaking on SiriusXM's Cuomo Mornings on Friday, O'Donnell revealed that she had quietly returned to the U.S. for a short visit.
'I recently went home for two weeks and I did not really tell anyone. I just went to see my family,' she said.
'I wanted to see how hard it would be for me to get in and out of the country. I wanted to feel what it felt like.'
Rosie O'Donnell has revealed she secretly returned to the United States to test the waters after President Trump threatened to revoke her citizenship following her move to Ireland last year; (pictured 20240
The former talk show host announced in March 2025 that she had relocated to Ireland following Donald Trump's second inauguration; (Trump in February)
She told Cuomo, 'I wanted to hold my children again.'
The mother of five left the US in January 2025 with her youngest, Clay, while her four older children - Parker, 29, Blake, 25, Chelsea, 27, and Vivienne, 22 - remained in America.
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'And I hadn't been home in over a year,' O'Donnell said. 'I also wanted to make sure that it was safe for me before I brought my daughter this summer, where we plan to spend the summertime off from her schooling here with my family.'
The star added that one of her adult sons is expecting his first child, leaving her 'very excited to be home.'
She spent the two-week visit in New York and described it as 'a very different country.'
'[It's] a very different place for me because, for a year, I haven't been watching the news. I haven't been watching American culture television. I've been in a place where celebrity worship does not exist,' she said, noting that her new life in Ireland provides 'more balance.'
'I don't regret leaving at all,' O'Donnell said. 'I think I did what I needed to do to save myself, my child and my sanity.'
She also admitted the energy she felt in the US was unsettling.
'I recently went home for two weeks and I did not really tell anyone. I just went to see my family,' O'Donnell said, adding, 'I wanted to see how hard it would be for me to get in and out of the country. I wanted to feel what it felt like'
'I don't regret leaving at all,' O'Donnell said, adding, 'I think I did what I needed to do to save myself, my child and my sanity'
'The energy that I felt while in the United States… it was scary,' she said. 'There's a feeling that something is really wrong and no one is doing anything about it.'
Despite her move abroad, Trump posted in July 2025 that he was 'giving serious consideration' to revoking her US citizenship.
'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 wrote.
'She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!'
O'Donnell fired back on Instagram, writing, 'The president of the USA has always hated the fact that I see him for who he is - a criminal con man sexual abusing liar out to harm our nation to serve himself.'
'This is why I moved to Ireland,' she continued. 'He is a dangerous old soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy, compassion and basic humanity - I stand in direct opposition [to] all he represents, so do millions of others.'
Meanwhile, O'Donnell has also been candid about her dramatic weight loss since moving to Ireland.
The 63-year-old revealed she has shed a significant amount of weight while taking the diabetes medication Mounjaro, crediting it as a major factor in her transformation.
'I've lost more weight here. I am on Mounjaro for my diabetes and one of the side effects is you lose weight,' she joked in a TikTok video.
The former Rosie O'Donnell Show host also shared her astonishment at her slimmer figure amid the health change.
'I'm one of those people who's always had a weight issue and now that I'm a size large, instead of an XL or a XXL, I find it shocking. I really do. I find it completely shocking,' she said.
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The lefts drama queen is back. As predicted …..
This bothers you, but the President of the United States threatening to revoke someone's citizenship - that doesn't bother you so much? If that's the case, please reexamine your priorities.
And in case you're unclear on this point, she was born in the United States. Her father was an immigrant, but her mother was also born here. There is no legal framework - even by extreme Right-wing, white supremacist standards - for revoking her citizenship, but Trump floated the idea anyway. I get that empathy is a dirty word for some on the Right, these days, but try to imagine if you were threatened like that. How might you react?
Meh, I leave the drama to my friends on the left. Especially when it comes to Trump. Give me a call when he actually has someone nasty like O’Donnells citizenship revoked for bullshit reasons and I’ll jump on your bandwagon.
Until then you can ride it alone with your fellow triggered.
If only he could. S/
You guys need to stop with this excuse. He hasn’t done this thing yet to this specific person, but he has done lots of other things he said he would do. So, it’s not hysteria or overreaction. And when he said he would do those things, you guys were all “call me when he actually does [x].”
He actually does the things he says he is going to do. But, if you want to make the argument that he doesn’t, and if his promises are so empty, then you shouldn’t be supporting and defending him.
He does a lot of things he’s not supposed to be able to do.
Give it a break. Stop giving Trump a rent free space in your head. You will be much happier if you can
Back on topic. Big mouth Rosie’s got the attention she wanted with the usual venomous tactics she employs and now she is back as predicted. Only the triggered prop up her actions like this. Only the triggered.
I think its sweet that so many people are concerned about Rosie's citizenship but I assure you she is in no danger of losing it.
Feel free to point out where he has revoked someone’s citizenship for exercising their first amendment rights.
Until such time, accusations like that are just a bunch of blah, blah, blah ….
But:
So many folks have problems with every word that comes out of his mouth. A little help :
LMAO You seeded the story. Holy shit, the lack of self awareness is staggering.
We’re talking about her tactics, now? Is Rosie the one who threatened to revoke her citizenship? Or was that Trump?
If it is tiring to witness I can only imagine how exhausting it is to do it.
I don’t like Rosie O, but it does bother me when the president threatens to revoke the citizenship of a natural born citizen. It should bother you, too. The fact that it doesn’t is a problem in this country. You shouldn’t have to like a person to give a shit about how our basic rights are treated by the government.
I already answered this disingenuous deflection.
Perhaps in your mind you have but not really. Not in the real world of normal communication.
See 1.0 above and I repeat:
The only staggering thing here is some folks fixation on everything Trump. Okay, well, staggering isn’t the right word. “Sad” is the right word.
And I think one of the biggest problems today is people getting their panties in a twist over things that will never happen and then expect everyone to follow their lead.
Again…YOU seeded the story.
this is what rightists worry about. Wow.