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Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Rosie O'Donnell announced she has moved to Ireland. The comedian, who shared the news in a TikTok video Tuesday, said she pulled up stakes and jumped the pond Jan.
15 with the youngest of her five kids. O'Donnell said she's "in the process" of getting Irish citizenship as she has Irish grandparents and intends to stay overseas until "it is safe, you know, for all citizens to have equal rights there, in America, that's when we will consider coming back." The move came less than a week before the inauguration of President Trump, who was O'Donnell's sparring partner and nemesis long before he was first elected.
Their rivalry started in 2006, when O'Donnell accused Trump of using an underage drinking scandal involving Miss USA Tara Conner to promote the Miss USA pageant itself, calling him a "snake-oil salesman" and more. She mentioned his marital infidelities in challenging Trump as an arbiter of moral behavior. He called her "fat" and "a woman out of control.
" Conner kept her title, while Trump threatened to sue O'Donnell during appearances on several media outlets. He did not file suit. Advertisement The two continued to trade public blows, including when O'Donnell's show on OWN was axed in 2012.
Trump crowed on social media that "Rosie O'Donnell has failed again. Her ratings were abysmal and Oprah cancelled her on Friday night. When will media executives learn that Rosie just hasn't got it.
" He also told Fox News by phone at the time that "Rosie fails at everything. She had a variety show that failed. .
.. Somebody else, some moron, will come and hire her again to do something else, and that will fail.
At some point, let her...
Christie D'Zurilla.
