After a self-imposed political exile to Eire after President Donald Trump’s re-election, Rosie O’Donnell quietly returned to the USA.
Throughout an interview with Chris Cuomo on his new present, “SiriusXM’s Cuomo Mornings,” the 63-year-old actress revealed she not too long ago returned to the nation to go to her household. The actress moved to Eire along with her teenage daughter in January 2025, simply previous to President Trump’s second inauguration.
“I used to be not too long ago residence for 2 weeks, and I didn’t actually inform anybody,” she instructed Cuomo. “I simply went to see my household. I needed to see how laborious it could be for me to get in and in another country. I needed to really feel what it felt like. I needed to carry my youngsters once more. And I hadn’t been residence in over a 12 months.”
She then shared that she “needed to be sure that it was secure” for her and her daughter to return again over the summer time in order that they might be with household throughout her break from faculty.
When chatting with Cuomo, she went on to debate how America “appears like a really totally different nation” to her than when she lived right here as a result of she hasn’t “been watching the information” or maintaining with “American tradition tv” whereas residing in Eire.
“I’ve been in a spot the place superstar worship doesn’t exist,” she defined. “I’ve been in a spot the place there’s extra steadiness to the information. There’s extra steadiness to life. It’s not everybody attempting to get extra, extra, extra. It’s a really totally different tradition. And I felt the USA in a totally totally different approach than I ever had earlier than I left.”
O’Donnell claimed she doesn’t “remorse leaving in any respect” and feels she did “what I wanted to do to save lots of myself, my baby and my sanity.”
“And I’m very pleased that I’m not within the midst of it there as a result of the vitality that I felt whereas in the USA was — if I may use the simplest phrase I can consider — it was scary,” she added. “There’s a sense that one thing is basically fallacious, and nobody is doing something about it.”
The unhealthy blood between O’Donnell and President Trump goes again 20 years, when she criticized him whereas on “The View.” They continued to throw jabs at one another over time, with O’Donnell telling the Irish radio present “Sunday with Miriam,” “He makes use of me as a punching bag and a option to kind of rile his base.”
After asserting she had moved to Eire, the star shared she was making use of for Irish citizenship throughout an interview with the U.Okay.’s Every day Telegraph in October 2025.
“What nice information for America!” White Home spokesperson Abigail Jackson instructed Fox Information Digital concerning the information on the time.
President Trump had beforehand threatened to revoke O’Donnell’s American citizenship twice earlier than via posts on Fact Social.
“Due to the truth that Rosie O’Donnell will not be in the most effective pursuits of our Nice Nation, I’m giving severe consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” he wrote in July 2025. “She is a Menace to Humanity, and may stay within the fantastic Nation of Eire, if they need her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
He later renewed the threats in September 2025, writing, “She will not be a Nice American and is, for my part, incapable of being so!”
O’Donnell fired again in opposition to the president’s threats, utilizing the Structure as her protection in opposition to the President.
“He can’t try this as a result of it’s in opposition to the Structure, and even the Supreme Courtroom has not given him the suitable to do this. … He’s not allowed to do this. The one approach you’re allowed to remove somebody’s citizenship is that if they surrender it themselves, and I’ll by no means surrender my American citizenship,” the “Now and Then” star mentioned. “I’m a really proud citizen of the USA.
“I’m additionally getting my citizenship right here so I can have twin citizenship in Eire and the USA as a result of I take pleasure in residing right here,” she added. “It’s very peaceable. I really like the politics of the nation. I really like the individuals and their beneficiant hearts and spirit. And it’s been excellent for my daughter. However I nonetheless need to preserve my citizenship in the USA. My youngsters are there. I might be there visiting and go to see them. And I’ve the liberty to do this, as does each American citizen.”
Below the USA Structure, a president doesn’t have the facility to strip the citizenship of somebody born within the nation, which means since O’Donnell was born in New York, her citizenship is protected by the 14th Modification.
