Ellen DeGeneres stepped up in help of comedic colleague Rosie O’Donnell on Sunday with an Instagram shout-out after Donald Trump threatened to revoke her citizenship.
“Good for you Rosie,” DeGeneris wrote, tagging her, alongside a screenshot of one of many scathing comebacks O’Donnell issued after Trump’s Fact Social labeling her a “threat to humanity” and declaring he was “giving serious consideration to taking away her citizenship” (which he can not the truth is do).
Trump’s menace, fueled by a near-20-year feud between the 2 — O’Donnell has lengthy been an outspoken critic of his, each out and in of workplace — sparked a string of rebukes from his nemesis. DeGeneres displayed a submit that started, “Hey Donald — you’re rattled again? Eighteen years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours.”
O’Donnell replied that removed from being a menace to humanity, she was “everything you fear: a loud woman, a queer woman, a mother who tells the truth, an American who got out of the country before you set it ablaze.” She set it subsequent to a photograph of Trump with the late convicted pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, whom the president has by turns referred to as “a terrific guy,” and distanced himself from, declaring he was “never a fan.”
The now ex-pat comic ended with a quasi-dare and a nod to “Game of Thrones”: “You want to revoke my citizenship? Go ahead and try, King Joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
Whereas each comedians have moved to the U.Okay. because the 2024 presidential election — DeGeneres to England and O’Donnell to Eire — they haven’t been in direct contact, in line with studies. And O’Donnell by no means appeared on DeGeneres’s present. The rationale, O’Donnell revealed as lately as two years in the past, is a hurtful comment DeGeneres made again within the Nineties.
On “Watch What Happens Live” in September 2022, O’Donnell recounted a Nineties interview DeGeneres did with CNN host Larry King wherein he requested, “Whatever happened to Rosie O’Donnell? She came out as a lesbian and disappeared.”
“And Ellen said, and I’m quoting, ‘I don’t know Rosie. We’re not friends.’ ” O’Donnell informed host Andy Cohen. “It hurt my feelings like a baby, and I never really got over it.”
Whereas O’Donnell had been invited to seem on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” to advertise the Showtime collection “SMILF,” O’Donnell declined, she informed Cohen, as a result of they wouldn’t let her deliver somebody on together with her. However there was no animosity, she added.
That goodwill, although hand-in-hand with ongoing distance, continued when DeGeneres and spouse Portia de Rossi left the U.S. for political causes.
“We’re not really in each other’s worlds, and it’s been kind of awkward but you know what? I wish her the best,” O’Donnell informed Us Weekly in April. “I wish that she has peace and love in her life and that she is OK.”
