Comedian Rosie O’Donnell claims she still has “no regrets” about moving out of the United States after reading the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.
O’Donnell has since moved to Ireland, joining a growing number of celebrities who have moved internationally since President Donald Trump’s historic win. The comedian turned television producer has been the most vocal about her move, prompting snide jokes from the Trump administration. O’Donnell explained that she does not plan to return to the U.S. until it’s “safe.”
“I have no regrets. Not a day has gone by that I thought it was the wrong decision. I was welcomed with open arms,” O’Donnell said on CNN’s The Situation Room Tuesday. “I knew, after reading Project 2025, that if Trump got in, it was time for me and my non-binary child to leave the country. And although I was not one of the celebrities who announced that that‘s what I would do, I made the decision within my family and my therapist, should he win. And then when he did, we made the plan into action, and we were gone before he was inaugurated.”
All five of O’Donnell’s children are adopted. Her comment about her non-binary child was a reference to her youngest child, Clay, who is 12 years old. O’Donnell is pursuing Irish citizenship. Still, she described the changes Trump has made as “heartbreaking.”
“I knew that if I was in the United States and watched him destroy the country, and the Constitution, and really pay no mind to any of the laws that the Founders stood by and that our country stands for as a beacon of shining light and freedom for the rest of the world, that should he do what the Heritage Foundation said he was going to do in that Project 2025, that we were going to be in big trouble,” O’Donnell said. “And it‘s as bad as they promised and even a little bit worse. And it‘s been heartbreaking and personally very, very sad to watch.”
ROSIE O’DONNELL SAYS LEAVING US WAS PART OF THERAPY PLAN FOR A SECOND TRUMP TERM
O’Donnell claims to be 100% Irish with Irish grandparents.
Musician Courtney Love is another celebrity who has left the U.S. She made London her home in 2019, during Trump’s first term. The San Francisco native, who was married to late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, earned her fame from singing and songwriting. Love has announced she is seeking British citizenship.
