Comedian, actor and Donald Trump nemesis Rosie O’Donnell has become the latest stand-up celebrity to flee the U.S. in the wake of the president’s reelection.
O’Donnell told fans on Tuesday that she and her 12-year-old child moved to Ireland on Jan. 15, just five days before Trump returned to the White House to begin his second term.
“When it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back,” the 62-year-old Long Island native said on TikTok. “It’s been heartbreaking to see what’s happening politically and hard for me personally as well. The personal is political, as we all know.”
O’Donnell and Trump have famously insulted one another over the years. Their nasty feud came to a head during the 2016 presidential debates when moderator Megyn Kelly noted Trump had called women “pigs, dogs, slobs,” and he interrupted to say “Only Rosie O’Donnell.”
The “League of Their Own” star confessed on Tuesday there are many things she misses about being in the U.S., and never thought she’d actually leave. But she said her time in Ireland has been “wonderful” and that she’s currently in the process of getting her citizenship as her grandparents are Irish.
O’Donnell’s announcement comes less than four months after comedian Ellen DeGeneres and actress Portia de Rossi decamped to the U.K. from their home in California. The couple reportedly became “very disillusioned” with Trump’s victory in the election and were determined to “get the hell out,” a source told TMZ.
