- - - Rosie O'Donnell slams Donald Trump as 'tangerine Mussolini' as feud escalates

Jay Stahl, USA TODAY July 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM

Rosie O'Donnell and President Donald Trump's decades-long feud continues to intensify.

The former cohost of "The View," 63, took aim at the president, 79, in social media posts July 15 and 16, days after Trump threatened to revoke the American-born actress and host's U.S. citizenship, despite the lack of constitutional power to do so.

During a 10-minute-long TikTok video July 15, O'Donnell took aim at the president, saying she is "safe here in Ireland, I'm out of the reach of the 'tangerine Mussolini'" in reference to disgraced Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. O'Donnell moved to Ireland earlier this year with her son Clay, 12, telling her fans that Trump's re-election inspired her relocation.

Rosie O'Donnell, pictured, and President Donald Trump's long-running feud is continuing to intensify with new comments from the former "View" host.

In her July 15 post, O'Donnell added that she was "expecting (Trump) to do something as absurd as he did" because "I've had 20 years of abuse from him, so I knew it wasn't going to stop."

The friends-turned-foes' feud date back to O'Donnell's days on the panel of ABC's "View" talk show, which she co-hosted from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2014 to 2015. On the show, O'Donnell infamously mocked Trump as "the moral authority" during a 2006 episode although he has multiple children with different women.

In her July 16 post, O'Donnell said that she moved to Ireland because "it got sad and scary for me with the election of the current president, so I knew I had to take care of my kid — my non-binary, Autistic kid. And the way that people marginalize and attack the Trans community, especially politically, is unfathomable to me, and so unbearably cruel."

In a Truth Social post July 12, Trump took aim at O'Donnell "because of the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship."

"She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!" Trump wrote. A rep for O'Donnell directed USA TODAY to her client's statement on Instagram, saying that "nothing else will be said."

In March O'Donnell said on TikTok that she is "in the process" of obtaining Irish citizenship through family descent. Under current U.S. law, Americans cannot lose their citizenship even if they obtain citizenship in a foreign country.

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