Rosie O’Donnell is sharing an update on her overseas move in the midst of President Donald Trump’s second term in office.
“I knew the best thing for me to do would be to leave until it all got worked out,” the former daytime TV host, 64, told Page Six in an interview published on Sunday, July 12, revealing that she “wasn’t nervous” about her decision to relocate to Ireland following the 2024 presidential election.
“I had read Project 2025 and I knew what they were planning and I knew if they were successful, that we were in very big trouble,” she explained.
In April 2025, O’Donnell opened up exclusively to Us Weekly about her decision to relocate to Ireland alongside her child, Clay, after Trump won the presidential election against then-Vice President Kamala Harris following then-President Joe Biden’s unprecedented withdrawal from the race.
Ellen DeGeneres is showing her support for friend Rosie O’Donnell as President Donald Trump erroneously claims to threaten her U.S. citizenship. “Good for you @rosie,” DeGeneres, 67, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, July 13, sharing screenshots of the president’s post on his social media app, Truth Social, and O’Donnell’s subsequent response. On Saturday, July 12, […]
“We chose Ireland and didn’t really know where to go,” O’Donnell revealed to Us at the time. “Someone said Salkey and I found a house online that was in Glengarry. But when the people who were helping us move in went there, there was mold in it. [We] could not move there, especially with an autistic child who has some allergy issues. And so, we ended up on Howth [at an Airbnb].”
She added, “There’s a great, great school there. And Clay has done very well. And they were really welcoming. And I love the little town, the little village. It’s in the heart of Dublin, but it’s still a village where you know the name of the grocer and you know the name of the cashiers. People are unbearably kind in a way that shocks me every single day.”
After O’Donnell’s across-the-pond move made headlines, President Trump erroneously threatened to revoke the comedian’s U.S. citizenship. (A sitting U.S. president does not have that authority, per multiple experts.)
“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,” the president wrote via his social media platform, Truth Social, in July 2025. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
O’Donnell responded to Trump’s social media threat, writing via Instagram that she lives “rent-free” in the president’s “collapsing brain” before claiming she is everything he fears — “a loud woman a queer woman a mother who tells the truth an american who got out of the country bf u set it ablaze.”
Rosie O’Donnell’s longstanding feud with President Donald Trump dates back nearly 20 years. While the two used to be friends — O’Donnell has even claimed to have attended Trump’s 1993 wedding to his ex-wife Marla Maples — a very public spat on The View in 2006 spiraled into a nasty war of words that carries […]
“You build walls – I build a life for my autistic kid in a country where decency still exists,” she continued in the post, which featured a picture of the president posting for a photo alongside convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. “You crave loyalty – I teach my children to question power. You sell fear on golf courses — I nurture, I create, I persist. You are everything that is wrong with america — and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it. You want to revoke my citizenship? Go ahead and try, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. I’m not yours to silence i never was.”
While speaking to Page Six, O’Donnell said she believes that people have “woken up in the United States” and now “understand.”
“His support has diminished significantly since I left,” she added.
According to six major polls, President Trump’s approval rating ranges from 35 percent to 43 percent following the nation’s 250th birthday celebration. His disapproval rating over the same six major polls ranges from 53 percent to 61 percent.
