President Donald Trump criticized actress Rosie O’Donnell and her choice to maneuver to Eire throughout his White Home assembly with Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin on Wednesday.
When a reporter requested Irish Prime Minister Martin why he allowed the American comic to maneuver to the nation, Trump was fast to reply.
“Eire is understood for very completely happy, fun-loving folks,” a reporter famous to Martin on the White Home.
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Throughout a White Home press convention, President Donald Trump blasted comic and actress Rosie O’Donnell after she fled the U.S. to maneuver to Eire. (Getty Photographs)
“Why on this planet would you let Rosie O’Donnell transfer to Eire?” the reporter requested. “I believe she goes to decrease your happiness.”
Earlier than Martin may reply, Trump chimed in and replied, “That’s true, I like that query. Have you learnt you have got Rosie O’Donnell? Have you learnt who she is? You’re higher off not realizing.”
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Reps for O’Donnell didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
Trump made the feedback after the comic revealed she has been residing in Eire and is within the technique of making use of for Irish citizenship.
“It’s been fairly fantastic, I’ve to say,” the 62-year-old stated in a video on TikTok. “And the folks have been so loving, so sort and so welcoming. And I’m very grateful.”
Rosie O’Donnell stated she left the nation on Jan. 15, 5 days earlier than President Trump’s inauguration. The comic took to Instagram to share a selfie in Eire. (Rosie O’Donnell/Instagram)
O’Donnell stated she left the nation on Jan. 15, 5 days earlier than President Trump’s inauguration.
“Though I used to be somebody who by no means thought I might transfer to a different nation, that’s what I made a decision could be one of the best for myself and my 12-year-old youngster,” she defined.
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O’Donnell and Trump have been concerned in a feud since 2006 after she criticized him on “The View” about his leniency towards a Miss USA winner who had been accused of drug use and different unhealthy habits.
Trump responded to the criticism by calling O’Donnell a “actual loser.”
Rosie O’Donnell and President Donald Trump have been concerned in a feud since 2006 after she criticized him on “The View” about his choice to be lenient towards a Miss USA winner, Tara Conner, who had been accused of drug use and different unhealthy habits. (Michael Loccisano/FilmMagic)
On the time, in reference to Miss USA Tara Conner, Trump stated he was a “believer in second probabilities. Tara is an efficient particular person. Tara has tried onerous. Tara goes to be given a second probability.”
In 2014, O’Donnell claimed her feud with Trump resulted within the “most bullying I ever skilled in my life.”
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Since Trump’s first presidential run and win, O’Donnell joked to “Late Night time” host Seth Meyers about how she spends “about 90% of my working hours tweeting hatred towards this administration.”
Discuss present host Rosie O’Donnell on her present in New York Metropolis in 1996. (Frank Micelotta/Getty Photographs)
In 2015, Trump harshly replied to a query relating to O’Donnell throughout the Republican main debate.
When Trump was requested about having referred to as girls disparaging names like “fats pigs” and “slob,” he laughed and answered, “Solely Rosie O’Donnell.”
Throughout final 12 months’s election, Trump introduced up O’Donnell’s identify once more when he informed a crowd on the October Al Smith dinner that “The View” had gotten “so unhealthy” that showrunners “really want to deliver Rosie O’Donnell again.”
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Comic Rosie O’Donnell addresses a protest towards President Donald Trump in entrance of the White Home in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 6, 2018. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Regardless of her ongoing sparring with Trump, O’Donnell stated she and her daughters are “completely happy” in Eire.
“I miss my different children,” she added of her 5 grown kids. “I miss my mates. I miss many issues about life there at dwelling. And I’m looking for a house right here on this stunning nation. And when it’s protected for all residents to have equal rights there in America, that’s once we will think about coming again.”
The “Flintstones” star moreover stated she thinks concerning the U.S. day by day, and “I hope that we are able to flip issues round. I’m relying on you, all of you, to do what’s proper. And I believe deep down inside everyone knows what that’s.”
Fox Information Digital’s Brie Stimson contributed to this report.
