{"id":64337,"date":"2025-07-14T07:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/64337\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T07:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:53:08","slug":"ellen-degeneres-supports-rosie-odonnell-after-trump-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/64337\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen DeGeneres supports Rosie O’Donnell after Trump threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ellen DeGeneres stepped up in support of comedic colleague Rosie O\u2019Donnell on Sunday with an Instagram shout-out after Donald Trump threatened to revoke her citizenship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood for you Rosie,\u201d DeGeneris wrote, tagging her, alongside a screenshot of one of the scathing comebacks O\u2019Donnell issued after Trump\u2019s Truth Social\u00a0 labeling her a \u201cthreat to humanity\u201d and declaring he was \u201cgiving serious consideration to taking away her citizenship<\/a>\u201d (which he cannot in fact do).<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s threat, fueled by a near-20-year feud between the two<\/a> \u2014 O\u2019Donnell has long been an outspoken critic of his, both in and out of office \u2014 sparked a string of rebukes from his nemesis. DeGeneres displayed a post that began, \u201cHey Donald \u2014 you\u2019re rattled again? Eighteen years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Donnell replied that far from being a threat to humanity, she was \u201ceverything you fear: a loud woman, a queer woman,\u2028a mother who tells the truth,\u2028an American who got out of the country before you set it ablaze.\u201d She set it next to a photo of Trump with the late convicted pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, whom the president has by turns called \u201ca terrific guy<\/a>,\u201d and distanced himself from, declaring he was \u201cnever a fan<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The now ex-pat comedian ended with a quasi-dare and a nod to \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d: \u201cYou want to revoke my citizenship? Go ahead and try, King Joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. I\u2019m not yours to silence. I never was.\u201d<\/p>\n

While both comedians have moved to the U.K. since the 2024 presidential election \u2014 DeGeneres to England<\/a> and O\u2019Donnell to Ireland<\/a> \u2014 they have not been in direct touch, according to reports. And O\u2019Donnell never appeared on DeGeneres\u2019s show. The reason, O\u2019Donnell revealed as recently as two years ago, is a hurtful remark DeGeneres made<\/a> back in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

On \u201cWatch What Happens Live\u201d in September 2022, O\u2019Donnell recounted a 1990s interview DeGeneres did with CNN host Larry King in which he asked, \u201cWhatever happened to Rosie O\u2019Donnell? She came out as a lesbian and disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Ellen said, and I\u2019m quoting, \u2018I don\u2019t know Rosie. We\u2019re not friends.\u2019 \u201d O\u2019Donnell told host Andy Cohen. \u201cIt hurt my feelings like a baby, and I never really got over it.\u201d<\/p>\n

While O\u2019Donnell had been invited to appear on \u201cThe Ellen DeGeneres Show\u201d to promote the Showtime series \u201cSMILF,\u201d O\u2019Donnell declined, she told Cohen, because they wouldn\u2019t let her bring someone on with her. But there was no animosity, she added.<\/p>\n

That goodwill, though hand-in-hand with ongoing distance, persisted when DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi left the U.S. for political reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not really in each other\u2019s worlds<\/a>, and it\u2019s been kind of awkward but you know what? I wish her the best,\u201d O\u2019Donnell told Us Weekly in April. \u201cI wish that she has peace and love in her life and that she is OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

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