Rosie O'Donnell moved to Ireland before Trump's inauguration, may return when 'all citizens have equal rights'

Rosie O'Donnell has left the United States for greener pastures.

The famed comedian and former talk show host hinted last week that she had moved abroad with her 12-year-old, Clay. O'Donnell explained everything in a nine-minute video posted to her TikTok today, which began, "I'm here in Ireland, and it's beautiful, and warm... Moved here January 15, and it's been pretty wonderful, I have to say. The people are so loving, so kind, and so welcoming, and I'm very grateful."

Though O'Donnell admitted she "was never someone who thought I would move to another country," she decided to relocate five days before Donald Trump's second inauguration as president because "its been heartbreaking to see whats happening politically, and hard for me personally as well. The personal is political, as we all know."

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O'Donnell says she is pursuing Irish citizenship, as she has Irish grandparents. Though she's happy and says "Clay's happy" she also admits, "I miss my other kids, I miss my friends, I miss many things about life there at home. And I'm trying to find a home here in this beautiful country. When it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that's when we will consider coming back."

Trump and O'Donnell have a decades-long acrimonious relationship, stretching back to O'Donnell's brief time as a cohost of The View in the mid-2000s. The pair regularly fired vicious posts back and forth on the social media site formerly known as Twitter, with O'Donnell claiming as recently as 2020 that Trump "won't let it die."

"I just talked about him not being a self-made man, having money from his father, and saying he went bankrupt — and it made him go berserk," she said. "He went on a tirade for a good decade that hasn't ended today."

O'Donnell continues to criticize Trump as well, but she's left the personal attacks (mostly) to the side, focusing on substantive policy critique amid his rise to the top of the American political food chain. She celebrated Trump's conviction on 34 felony counts last May, thanking Trump's former lawyer who testified against him, Michael Cohen, for "turning away from the criminal cult - for taking responsibility for ur actions - for telling the truth."

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"I encourage everyone to stand up to use their voice to protest, to demand that we follow the constitution in our country, and not a king, not a man, and we don't have cruelty as part of our governing style," O'Donnell continued on TikTok.

The former Rosie O'Donnell Show host also suggested she may soon abandon TikTok for the self-publishing platform Substack and revealed her new photography hobby has her going through "rolls and rolls a day."

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Trump and his new administration have been widely criticized for, among other things, ordering a freeze on all new civil rights cases from the Justice Department, introducing a raft of policy changes designed to curtail LGBTQ+ rights, and attempting to deport a green card holder for exercising his constitutional right to public assembly.

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