Rosie O’Donnell hit back at Donald Trump on Friday after the president reignited his longtime feud with the comedian by threatening to revoke her U.S. citizenship again.
“He’s like a cornered rat and he doesn’t know where to go or what to do,” said O’Donnell on “The Jim Acosta Show.”
“So he goes into his bag of tricks and one of his tricks is, ‘Let’s make fun of Rosie O’Donnell and threaten her,’ even though he’s threatened me before and never done anything.”
Moments earlier, O’Donnell — who now lives in Ireland, having moved there in January — accused Trump of using the post about her to distract Americans from his administration’s handling of the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files.
“It’s unbelievable how obvious he is about everything that he does,” she explained, noting that the post — which Trump shared alongside a wonky distorted photo of her — occurred hours after victims of the late convicted sex offender spoke on Capitol Hill.
“Could you say I’m guilty without saying I’m guilty more than having a flyover during their press conference? As if he’s going to hold the tide?” she said.
O’Donnell — who said that the “time is up” for Trump and “he knows it” — claimed that the president has threatened to sue her for decades and to have “thugs” take away her wife.
“He is deranged,” O’Donnell stressed.
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She later turned her attention back to the Epstein saga, declaring that America will not stand for someone like Trump — who was found liable for sexual abuse — dismissing the victims of Epstein.
“This makes Watergate look like a joke!” she said.
“This is unbelievable! And the fact he would say Rosie O’Donnell is not a good American, she never can be. Well, I don’t think you’re a good American if you did what you did, Donald Trump!”
On Friday, the president again dismissed the Epstein saga as a “Democrat HOAX” and claimed that the Justice Department “has done its job” on the matter amid a bipartisan push to force the House to vote on a bill that would require the DOJ to release the files in their entirety.