After Rosie O'Donnell's move to Ireland, Trump tells Irish PM he's 'better off not knowing' who she is

Just successful clip for St. Patrick’s Day, Rosie O’Donnell announced she has moved to Ireland.

The comedian, who shared the quality successful a TikTok video Tuesday, said she pulled up stakes and jumped the pond Jan. 15 with the youngest of her 5 kids. O’Donnell said she’s “in the process” of getting Irish citizenship arsenic she has Irish grandparents and intends to enactment overseas until “it is safe, you know, for each citizens to person adjacent rights there, successful America, that’s erstwhile we volition see coming back.”

The determination came little than a week earlier the inauguration of President Trump, who was O’Donnell’s sparring spouse and nemesis agelong earlier helium was archetypal elected.

Their rivalry started successful 2006, erstwhile O’Donnell accused Trump of utilizing an underage drinking ungraded involving Miss USA Tara Conner to beforehand the Miss USA pageant itself, calling him a “snake-oil salesman” and more. She mentioned his marital infidelities successful challenging Trump arsenic an arbiter of motivation behavior. He called her “fat” and “a pistillate retired of control.” Conner kept her title, portion Trump threatened to writer O’Donnell during appearances connected respective media outlets. He did not record suit.

The 2 continued to commercialized nationalist blows, including erstwhile O’Donnell’s amusement connected OWN was axed successful 2012. Trump crowed connected societal media that “Rosie O’Donnell has failed again. Her ratings were abysmal and Oprah cancelled her connected Friday night. When volition media executives larn that Rosie conscionable hasn’t got it.”

He besides told Fox News by telephone astatine the clip that “Rosie fails astatine everything. She had a assortment amusement that failed. ... Somebody else, immoderate moron, volition travel and prosecute her again to bash thing else, and that volition fail. At immoderate point, fto her rest. Let her spell away.”

When O’Donnell returned to “The View” for its 18th play successful 2014, Trump tweeted, “Rosie is crude, rude, obnoxious and dumb — different than that I similar her precise much!” That came aft helium posted, “Rosie is backmost connected the View which tells you however hopeless they indispensable be. It is the modular abbreviated word hole and agelong word disaster.”

Once helium was successful bureau successful 2017, aft helium fired FBI Director James Comey, Trump dug up an aged “FIRE COMEY” tweet from the comedian and cited the unit determination arsenic thing helium and O’Donnell yet agreed on. Later that year, O’Donnell called the president “Adolf Trump” connected societal media and said that anyone who stood with him oregon worked for him was a Nazi.

And erstwhile moderator Megyn Kelly challenged Trump successful a 2015 GOP statement implicit his past of calling women “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals,” Trump jumped successful with a qualifier: “Only Rosie O’Donnell,” helium said.

The comedian hasn’t relented successful taking shots astatine Trump via societal media implicit the years, though her erstwhile Twitter relationship has been decommissioned and tells nary tales. But successful December, aft Time named him its 2024 idiosyncratic of the year, O’Donnell said connected TikTok, “How astir about unsafe antheral of the year? How astir about transgression antheral of the year? How astir the worst president we’ve ever had … of the year.”

She added, “There wasn’t 1 idiosyncratic you could deliberation of that wasn’t that lying, transgression guy? Not 1 idiosyncratic of the year? Man of the twelvemonth should beryllium changed to quality of the year. Start looking astatine the women, you patriarchal f—. My God, it’s truthful frustrating.”

Then connected Wednesday, erstwhile Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin was gathering with the president astatine the White House, a newsman asked, “Why would you fto Rosie O’Donnell determination to Ireland?”

Trump said, “I similar that question!,” past asked Martin, “Do you cognize who she is?”

Martin did not.

“You’re amended disconnected not knowing,” the president said.

O’Donnell said successful her TikTok video that the radical successful Ireland person been welcoming to her and her nonbinary 12-year-old, who successful caller years changed their sanction from Dakota — deemed “too feminine,” her ma said — to Clay.

Clay’s work canine made the travel arsenic well. “Kuma is with america and doing large and loves, loves taking walks connected the cliffs overlooking the Irish sea,” O’Donnell said. “Kuma is successful heaven.”

But she’s bummed she didn’t bring her SLR camera overseas, due to the fact that seemingly she has recovered the scenery to beryllium photogenic. The iPhone camera is good, she said, but it’s not the SLR. And she’s besides learning what to bash connected Substack, she said, due to the fact that she couldn’t fig retired Facebook.

“I’m happy. Clay is happy,” O’Donnell said. “I miss my different kids. I miss my friends. I miss galore things astir beingness determination astatine home, and I’m trying to find a location here, successful this beauteous country.”

Celebrities including Barbra Streisand, Cher, Sharon Stone and Ellen DeGeneres besides threatened to permission the U.S. if Trump was reelected, but of that group, lone DeGeneres has made bully connected her promise, moving to England with woman Portia de Rossi aft buying a spot successful the Cotswolds earlier the 2024 election.