Ellen DeGeneres is exhibiting her help for good friend Rosie O'Donnell as President Donald Trump erroneously claims to threaten her U.S. citizenship.
“Good for you @rosie,” DeGeneres, 67, wrote by way of Instagram on Sunday, July 13, sharing screenshots of the president's publish on his social media app, Fact Social, and O'Donnell's subsequent response.
On Saturday, July 12, President Donald Trump threatened to revoke O'Donnell's U.S. citizenship, regardless of having no constitutional authority to take action.
“Due to the truth that Rosie O'Donnell shouldn't be in the perfect pursuits of our Nice Nation, I'm giving severe consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote on the social media platform. “She is a Menace to Humanity, and will stay within the fantastic Nation of Eire, if they need her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
In line with professional Julia Gelatt, who spoke to The New York Times, a president doesn't have the ability to remove a U.S-born citizen's citizenship.
“U.S residents can relinquish their citizenship voluntarily, and federal courts can strip naturalized residents of their citizenship if there may be confirmed fraud or misrepresentation or different main trigger,” Gelatt, an affiliate director of the immigration program on the Migration Coverage Institute, instructed the publication. “However U.S.-born residents can't have their citizenship taken away.
O'Donnell promptly reacted to the president's menace, taking to social media to reply.
“Hey donald — you're rattled once more? 18 years later and I nonetheless dwell rent-free in that collapsing mind of yours. You name me a menace to humanity – however I'm all the things you concern: a loud lady a queer lady a mom who tells the reality an american who received in a foreign country b4 u set it ablaze,” O'Donnell 63, wrote by way of Instagram on Saturday.
“You construct partitions – I construct a life for my autistic child in a rustic the place decency nonetheless exists,” she continued within the publish, which featured an image of the president posting for a photograph alongside convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. “You crave loyalty – I educate my kids to query energy. You promote concern on golf programs — I nurture, I create, I persist. You're all the things that's flawed with america — and I'm all the things you hate about what's nonetheless proper with it. You need to revoke my citizenship? Go forward and take a look at, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. I'm not yours to silence i by no means was.”
O'Donnell introduced in March that she moved to Eire and was within the means of getting her citizenship. DeGeneres and her spouse, Portia de Rossi, relocated to the English countryside final 12 months. O'Donnell confessed to Us Weekly in an unique interview that she hasn't been in contact with DeGeneres, 67, and was “shocked” by her choice to depart the U.S.
“I've by no means actually recognized Ellen to say something political in her life, so I used to be stunned to learn that she left due to President Trump. Like, that shocked me, really,” O'Donnell instructed Us. I've been a political particular person my entire life, not higher or worse, it's only a totally different technique to be on the planet. I used to be very clear in regards to the cause why I used to be leaving, and I don't assume it got here as a shock to anybody. We're probably not in one another's worlds, and it's been form of awkward however you realize what? I want her the perfect. I want that she has peace and love in her life and that she is OK.”
Regardless of not having the strongest relationship with DeGeneres, O'Donnell doesn't have any “malice” in the direction of her in any way.
“I don't need to combat in opposition to one other homosexual lady. It's not like we're tenaciously opposed to one another. We're simply very totally different individuals. We now have had some stuff prior to now that we by no means resolved. And never in any manner as, as companions or lovers or something like that, simply as buddies and comedians, however I want her the perfect. I significantly do,” she instructed Us. “I believe that there's sufficient room on the planet for the entire homosexual comedians, and all of us want to stay collectively as a result of homosexual individuals are the subsequent group to be threatened. And the best way they assault trans individuals is completely terrifying. If individuals don't perceive that they're an important a part of the LBGTQIA+ group, that's tragic as a result of we shield our personal, particularly probably the most weak.”
