Trump threatened to revoke comedian's American citizenship in the most 'embarrassing' way

Donald Trump threatened to take away comedian Rosie O’Donnell’s American citizenship and the White House amplified it in the most “embarrassing” way.

Despite the comedian being American-born, US president Trump has once again threatened to revoke O’Donnell’s citizenship, after first doing so in July. The American now lives in Ireland and is an outspoken critic of Trump’s.

The newest threat came in a post on Truth Social, where the president wrote: “As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship. She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!”

He shared the words along with a close-up image of O’Donnell’s face that he presumably deemed unflattering.

Then, from the official X/Twitter page of The White House, the post was re-shared along with the same image.

The move is in line with the highly 'unserious' way the Trump administration has conducted itself, posting memes and jokes about serious issues.

Needless to say, the sentiment behind the post, as well as the post itself, have both been slammed.

Mehdi Hassan wrote: “This is the official government account of the White House. Not sure America will ever really recover from these years.”

“The White House account tweeting this is just - wow. Those [Epstein] files must be nuts,” suggested another.

Another said: “I will never understand how people aren’t embarrassed by this administration.”

Someone else wrote: “I’m all for the memes but this is not appropriate behavior for the official page of the most powerful nation on Earth. This is embarrassing.”

Another person suggested: “The Official Twitter Account of the White House. When the inmates run the asylum. Absolutely embarrassing.”

Someone asked: “Just why? Clearly there is a lack of seriousness and concern for Americans if this is [what] was important enough to post.”

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