After a self-imposed political exile to Eire after President Donald Trump’s re-election, Rosie O’Donnell quietly returned to the US.
Throughout an interview with Chris Cuomo on his new present, “SiriusXM’s Cuomo Mornings,” the 63-year-old actress revealed she just lately returned to the nation to go to her household. The actress moved to Eire together with her teenage daughter in January 2025, simply previous to President Trump’s second inauguration.
“I used to be just lately house for 2 weeks, and I didn’t actually inform anybody,” she advised Cuomo. “I simply went to see my household. I wished to see how laborious it might be for me to get in and in a foreign country. I wished to really feel what it felt like. I wished to carry my youngsters once more. And I hadn’t been house in over a yr.”
She then shared that she “wished to guarantee that it was protected” for her and her daughter to come back again over the summer season in order that they might be with household throughout her break from faculty.
When talking to Cuomo, she went on to debate how America “seems 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 celeb worship doesn’t exist,” she defined. “I’ve been in a spot the place there’s extra stability to the information. There’s extra stability to life. It’s not everybody making an attempt to get extra, extra, extra. It’s a really totally different tradition. And I felt the US in a very 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 little one and my sanity.”
“And I’m very completely satisfied that I’m not within the midst of it there as a result of the vitality that I felt whereas in the US was — if I might use the simplest phrase I can consider — it was scary,” she added. “There’s a sense that one thing is absolutely improper, and nobody is doing something about it.”
The dangerous 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 through the years, with O’Donnell telling the Irish radio present “Sunday with Miriam,” “He makes use of me as a punching bag and a method to form 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.Ok.’s Day by day Telegraph in October 2025.
“What nice information for America!” White Home spokesperson Abigail Jackson advised Fox Information Digital concerning the information on the time.
President Trump had beforehand threatened to revoke O’Donnell’s American citizenship twice earlier than by posts on Fact Social.
“Due to the truth that Rosie O’Donnell shouldn’t 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 great Nation of Eire, if they need her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
He later renewed the threats in September 2025, writing, “She shouldn’t be a Nice American and is, in my view, incapable of being so!”
O’Donnell fired again towards the president’s threats, utilizing the Structure as her protection towards the President.
“He can’t do this as a result of it’s towards the Structure, and even the Supreme Courtroom has not given him the correct 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 stated. “I’m a really proud citizen of the US.
“I’m additionally getting my citizenship right here so I can have twin citizenship in Eire and the US as a result of I get pleasure from residing right here,” she added. “It’s very peaceable. I really like the politics of the nation. I really like the folks and their beneficiant hearts and spirit. And it’s been superb for my daughter. However I nonetheless wish to preserve my citizenship in the US. My youngsters are there. I will probably be there visiting and go to see them. And I’ve the liberty to do this, as does each American citizen.”
Beneath the US Structure, a president doesn’t have the ability to strip the citizenship of somebody born within the nation, that means since O’Donnell was born in New York, her citizenship is protected by the 14th Modification.
