Rosie O’Donnell Tells CNN Trump Forced Her to Move to Ireland: ‘It Was Time For Me and My Non-Binary Child to Leave’
Rosie O’Donnell told CNN it’s “heartbreaking” watching President Donald Trump “destroy the country” from her new home of Ireland, where she fled just days before the president’s inauguration.
O’Donnell joined CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown on The Situation Room on Tuesday from her new home of Dublin. The comedienne and actress said she has “no regrets” about leaving the United States before Trump moved back into the White House.
O’Donnell and Trump have feuded for well over a decade. Their contentious relationship goes as far back as a 2006 interview on The View where Trump grew frustrated with O’Donnell’s persistent questions about his finances and more. Trump reignited the feud years later during a 2015 presidential debate where he was confronted about a number of personal insults he’d lobbed at women. Trump joked at the time that he’d only used comments like “pig and “slob” to refer to O’Donnell.
“I have no regrets, not a day has gone by that I thought it was the wrong decision. I was welcomed with open arms. I knew after reading Project 2025 that if Trump got in, it was time for me and my non-binary child to leave the country,” she said.
O’Donnell joined CNN to promote her new documentary, Unleashing Hope, which focuses on service dogs being used to help autistic children better socialize.
The comedienne claimed it’s been “heartbreaking” watching Trump’s administration from afar. The president has taken shots at O’Donnell since her move, even facetiously asking Ireland’s prime minister why he would “let” her into the country. When the Irish prime minister appeared not to know who O’Donnell is, Trump said, “You’re better off not knowing.”
O’Donnell said on Tuesday:
It’s been heartbreaking, I have to tell you. I knew that if i was in the United States and watched him destroy the country and the constitution and really pay no mind to any of the laws that the founders stood by and that our country stands for as a beacon of shining light and freedom for the rest of the world, that should he do what the Heritage Foundation said he was going to do in that Project 2025, that we were going to be in big trouble and it’s as bad as they promised and even a little bit worse and it’s been heartbreaking and personally very very sad to watch.
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