Two months after threatening to revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship — one thing, to be clear, U.S. presidents don’t have the ability to do — Donald Trump is again at it, solely this time pairing the risk with a petty visible insult.
In a submit Wednesday night on his Twitter clone, Fact Social, Trump shared a closely altered picture of O’Donnell, manipulated to appears extraordinarily unflattering. The picture was coupled with the message, “as beforehand talked about, we’re gicing severe thought to taking away Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship. She is just not a Nice American and is, in my view, incapable of being so!”
See that beneath, shared on X (previously Twitter) by Yashar Ali:
It’s unclear what, if something, prompted Trump to make the assertion Wednesday evening. However the risk comes amid a number of ongoing Trump administration controversies, amongst them the deployment of navy forces to cities in Blue States and the continued scandal over paperwork linked to Jeffrey Epstein, in addition to the widespread conspiracy theories about his well being that unfold over the vacation weekend.
Trump beforehand made this risk in July, which like Wednesday’s remarks didn’t seem to have an instantaneous trigger. O’Donnell and Trump have lengthy publicly feuded nevertheless, and in March the comic revealed she had moved to Eire after the 2024 election, and that she was trying to acquire Irish citizenship.
Talking of that, there are only a few circumstances underneath which a pure born citizen can lose their citizenship, and none of them contain selections by the president.
A 1967 Supreme Court docket resolution held that individuals born with American citizenship can solely relinquish it voluntarily. And as defined on the official State Division web site, this could doubtlessly happen if somebody turns into a naturalized citizen of one other nation after age 18, ought to duties to that nation battle with their responsibility as a U.S. citizen. It might additionally happen if somebody swears allegiance to a different nation after age 18, in the event that they be part of the navy of a rustic at conflict with america, in the event that they formally resign U.S. citizenship, or in the event that they settle for jobs with a overseas authorities (underneath extraordinarily particular circumstances).
As well as, being convicted in court docket “of performing an act of treason towards the Authorities of america or for trying by pressure to overthrow, or bear arms towards, the Authorities of america” also can depend.
However america additionally acknowledges twin citizenship with many countries, together with Eire, so long as twin residents “keep their obligations to america.”
In any occasion, as we famous, not one of the triggering situations for dropping U.S. citizenship contain selections by the president.
