Rosie O’Donnell has revealed that she has moved from the United States to Ireland, where she is standing to request citizenship after President Trump’s second term.
“If you know it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights in America there, then we will consider coming back,” said O’Donnell in nine minutes Video Shared on Tiktok. She said that she is “very grateful” to have found a new home in Ireland, and added that the “people here are so loving, friendly and hospitable.”
Although O’Donnell made it clear that her move was due to the state of politics in the US, the Emmy winner President Trump never mentioned by name. She said about the current state of American politics: “It has been heartbreaking to see what is happening there politics and difficult for me personally.”
O’Donnell also called her nerves around Tiktok possibly “gone” and the state of media under the hostility of the new administration towards them as reasons to leave the States.
“The regular media have dropped us all in America, where the fourth estate is needed to maintain a democracy,” she said. “They didn’t do their work.”
She continued: “I encourage everyone to get up, use their voice, to protest, to demand that we follow the constitution in our country, and not a king and not a man and we have no cruelty as part of our style of administrative style.”
O’Donnell closed her message by encouraging her followers not to be packed in the constant and often chaotic, coverage of politics.
“Protect your common sense as much as possible, and don’t try to swim in the chaos if possible,” said O’Donnell. “But I know it’s almost impossible when you’re in the middle of it.”