Kathy Griffin is keenly conscious of what it’s prefer to publicly beef with the U.S. president — and he or she has a daring idea about Rosie O’Donnell‘s feud with President Donald Trump.
For practically twenty years, O’Donnell, 63, and Trump, 79, have exchanged sharp phrases. The A League of Their Personal actress regularly criticized the previous Apprentice star whereas internet hosting The View. And Trump has typically slammed O’Donnell on social media and within the press. Most not too long ago, he advised he may revoke her U.S. citizenship, to which she issued a scathing takedown of the menace.
Through the August 28 episode of Chelsea Handler‘s Expensive Chelsea podcast, Griffin opened up in regards to the notorious picture she printed in 2017 depicting herself holding Trump’s severed head and the way it pertains to “Trump and his machine” concentrating on O’Donnell.
“When my incident occurred, it was three days after Robert Mueller was appointed,” Griffin defined of the previous FBI director overseeing the investigation into doable Russian interference within the 2016 election.
“I feel that’s why he used me as that deflection,” she continued earlier than making her blunt declaration. “I feel he went after Rosie final weekend as a result of he’s on videotape with Jeffrey Epstein dancing at a celebration with minors.”
On July 12, Trump took to Reality Social with a head-turning put up in regards to the former Rosie O’Donnell Present host.
“Due to the truth that Rosie O’Donnell just isn’t in the very best pursuits of our Nice Nation, I’m giving critical consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” he wrote, per the Each day Mail. “She is a Risk to Humanity, and will stay within the fantastic Nation of Eire, if they need her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
The subsequent day, O’Donnell, who moved to Eire in January 2025, responded to the POTUS on Instagram. “Hey Donald — you’re rattled once more? 18 years later and I nonetheless reside rent-free in that collapsing mind of yours,” she wrote subsequent to a photograph of Trump together with his arm round Epstein.
She continued, “You name me a menace to humanity — however I’m every part you concern: a loud lady a queer lady a mom who tells the reality an American who acquired in another country b4 u set it ablaze,” she continued. “You construct partitions — I construct a life for my autistic child in a rustic the place decency nonetheless exists. You crave loyalty — I train my kids to query energy. You promote concern on golf programs — I make artwork about surviving trauma. You lie, you steal, you degrade — I nurture, I create, I persist. You might be every part that’s unsuitable with America — and I’m every part you hate about what’s nonetheless proper with it.”
In conclusion, O’Donnell name-dropped a broadly hated Sport of Thrones character, writing, “You wish 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 🇮🇪 Rosie.”