Ellen DeGeneres is supporting Rosie O'Donnell. Over the past weeks, O'Donnell has been involved in an escalating feud with President Donald Trump, with the two sending each other messages through social media. In a new post, DeGeneres has shared her support for O'Donnell.
DeGeneres shared two screenshots on her Instagram, showing the exchange between Trump and O'Donnell, with the former threatening O'Donnell's citizenship, suggesting that she stay in Ireland, where she's now based and in the process of acquiring a citizenship.
"Good for you, Rosie," wrote DeGeneres.
Trump's message was shared on his app, Truth Social. "Because of the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interest of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!" reads his message.
For her part, O'Donnell argued that she represented everything he feared. "A loud woman, a queer woman, a mother who tells the truth," she wrote. "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."
O'Donnell and DeGeneres' complicated relationship
The rift between O'Donnell and DeGeneres began when DeGeneres told Larry King that she didn't know O'Donnell and wasn't her friend. O'Donnell discussed the exchange in 2023, saying that she was offended by the comment, especially since she considered herself and DeGeneres to be friends in the '90s.
"It would never occur to me to say 'I don't know her' about somebody whose babies I held when they were born. It wouldn't be in my lexicon of choices to ever say that," said O'Donnell to The Hollywood Reporter in 2023.
In 2024, the two appeared to have a better relationship. "We're just very different people. We have had some stuff in the past that we never resolved. And not in any way as, as partners or lovers or anything like that, just as friends and comedians, but I wish her the best. I seriously do," said O'Donnell to Us Weekly.