Rosie O’Donnell, the outspoken liberal comedian and perennial thorn in the side of conservative America, has finally made good on a promise that many on the right have been eagerly awaiting: she’s left the United States.
On March 11, 2025, O’Donnell confirmed in a TikTok video that she relocated to Ireland with her 12-year-old daughter Dakota on January 15, just five days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration for his second term.
Hey guys, Trump Deranged psychopath Rosie O’Donnell has had enough of all the white supremacists in America, so she is moving to Ireland, one of the whitest countries on planet Earth 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/7QZ22ZzSB4
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) March 11, 2025
The move comes after Trump’s decisive victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, a result that evidently pushed O’Donnell over the edge. For years, she’s been a vocal critic of Trump, often using her platform to lambaste him and his supporters, so it’s no surprise to those on the right that she’d rather flee than face the reality of a thriving America under his leadership again.
O’Donnell’s departure isn’t just a personal choice—it’s a symbolic win for conservatives who’ve long grown tired of Hollywood elites threatening to abandon the country every time an election doesn’t go their way.
She’s not the first to make such a grand exit; she joins the likes of Ellen DeGeneres and James Cameron, who’ve also reportedly sought greener pastures abroad since Trump’s return to power. In her video, O’Donnell gushed about Ireland’s “loving and kind” people and revealed she’s in the process of securing Irish citizenship, thanks to her grandparents’ heritage.
To many on the right, this smacks of hypocrisy—here’s a woman who’s spent decades preaching about equality and justice in America, only to ditch it the moment her side loses. It’s a move that proves what conservatives have argued all along: the left’s loyalty to the nation is conditional at best.
What’s particularly galling to the right is O’Donnell’s stated reason for leaving. She claims she’ll only return “when it’s safe for all citizens to have equal rights,” a statement that reeks of melodrama and ignores the fact that the United States remains one of the freest nations on Earth. Under Trump’s first term, the economy boomed, unemployment hit record lows, and the country saw a resurgence of national pride—hardly the dystopia O’Donnell paints.
Conservatives see her exit as less about principle and more about petulance, a refusal to accept that the American people chose a vision of strength and sovereignty over the progressive agenda she’s championed. Ireland may welcome her with open arms, but to the right, her departure is a self-inflicted exile from a country she never truly understood.
The irony isn’t lost on conservatives that O’Donnell, once a fixture of daytime TV and a self-proclaimed voice of the common man, now finds herself tooling around the Irish countryside in a used car, as she boasted in a recent Instagram post. While she adjusts to driving on the “wrong side of the road,” the America she left behind continues to move forward without her.
For the right, this is a moment of vindication—proof that the cultural tide is shifting, and that the loudest voices of the left are losing their grip. O’Donnell’s move to Ireland isn’t just a personal retreat; it’s a tacit admission that the America she wanted, one molded in her image, isn’t the America that exists today. Good riddance, they say—let her stew in her self-imposed exile while the nation gets back to business.
