‘Out of Attain of Tangerine Mussolini’

The comic and activist reassured followers by way of TikTok Tuesday that she’s “good” and “protected right here in Eire,” after Trump threatened to revoke her U.S. citizenship. “I am out of the attain of the Tangerine Mussolini,” she quipped.

The (reheated) drama started over the weekend, when Trump took purpose at her on social media, claiming O’Donnell “shouldn’t be in one of the best pursuits of our Nice Nation” and that he was “giving critical consideration to taking away her Citizenship.” He continued, “She is a Menace to Humanity, and may stay within the fantastic Nation of Eire, if they need her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

Rosie, who settled into life on the Emerald Isle after quietly shifting to Eire in January, wasn’t bowled over nonetheless, telling her followers: “I’ve to say that I used to be anticipating him to do one thing as absurd as he did. Primary, I learn Venture 2025. Quantity two, I’ve had 20 years of abuse from him… And quantity three, I do know myself nicely sufficient to know that I wasn’t gonna shut up.”

O’Donnell echoed an identical sentiment on Eire’s RTÉ Radio 1, telling the outlet in a brand new interview that she first reacted with a “little publish that I jotted off in 5 minutes” which she stated has been getting a “lot of consideration on-line.”

“I am all the pieces you concern. A loud girl,
a queer girl,
a mom who tells the reality,
an American who obtained in another country earlier than you set it ablaze. You might be all the pieces that’s unsuitable with America—and I am all the pieces you hate about what’s nonetheless proper with it,” O’Donnell wrote on Instagram.

“You need to revoke my citizenship?
Go forward and check out, King Joffrey with a tangerine spray tan,” she concluded, reference to the villainous child-king from the hit HBO sequence Sport of Thrones. “I am not yours to silence. I by no means was.”

Whereas talking with RTE, O’Donnell stated she’s “very proud to be opposed to each single factor he says and does and represents.”

The pair’s feud dates again practically 20 years, to 2006, when she criticized his dealing with of the Miss USA controversy on The View. She sarcastically labeled him as a media ethical authority, saying: “He annoys me on a large number of ranges… however he is the ethical compass for 20-year-olds in America. Donald, sit and spin, my buddy. I do not take pleasure in him.”

Trump hit again, calling O’Donnell “a girl uncontrolled.”

As for Trump’s threats on O’Donnell’s American citizenship, authorized specialists have shortly dismissed these, stressing {that a} president can’t revoke the citizenship of somebody born within the U.S., citing protections below the 14th Modification and Supreme Court docket precedents. And that is one thing the humorous girl is assured in as nicely, regardless of the “unbridled energy” she says the Supreme Court docket has given him in his second time period.

O’Donnell additionally stood her floor, including in her TikTok video, “I’ll by no means surrender my American citizenship… I’m ready fortunately for my Irish citizenship in order that I is usually a twin citizen, however I’ll by no means surrender my American citizenship, ever.”

She additionally opened up about her transfer, saying, “I knew that coming to Eire would maintain me protected, and getting out of the USA was a necessity as a result of my coronary heart could not take the ache of what he was going to do and what he, in truth, has achieved.”

One thing she additionally advised RTÉ, “I left as a result of I really like the USA of America, not as a result of I do not. I really like democracy and what it stands for. I really like the Structure. I really like what our founding fathers represented and made on this world as a beacon of hope and freedom for the remainder of the world.”

She continued, “Now, there are a lot of issues with the USA. The truth that we predict we are able to butt into each different nation’s enterprise and alter regimes. You understand, we now have made super errors as a rustic. However till we personal what’s true about our nation and ourselves, we’re by no means going to have the ability to transfer ahead — and till we personal what’s true about Donald Trump.”

Elsewhere in her practically 10-minute TikTok video, O’Donnell took some pictures at Trump, notably with regards to his psychological health.

“I consider that his dementia forces him to suppose that he truly is a king… We do not have kings in America. That is why we began America… Liberty and justice for all,” she insisted. “You do not let grandpa, at 80 years previous, use the electrical knife on the turkey, proper? However we’re gonna give this man the nuclear codes.”

O’Donnell ended her scathing critique by calling Trump a “man who thinks he can subvert the Structure… a prison convicted felon, sexual abuser… a person with no morals.”