Michael Cohen - Rosie O'Donnell and the Death of Citizenship [View all]

This isn’t about Rosie. It’s a litmus test of how far Trump can push the Constitution—and how many MAGA Americans are dumb enough to let him try.

I’m writing this not just as someone who once stood too close to the sun, but as a man who’s been burned by its fire, singed by its radiation, and still smells of smoke. Because what we’re witnessing right now isn’t just another unhinged social media tantrum by President Trump; it’s a calculated test. A litmus of lunacy. A dry run for dictatorship. This time, the target is Rosie O’Donnell. Next time, it could be you.

Let me be crystal clear: Trump’s threat to revoke the citizenship of Rosie—an American-born citizen, comedian, and longtime thorn in Trump’s side—isn’t just some off-the-cuff late-night post. No. It’s the probing of a system. A poke at the Constitution to see if it flinches. It’s not about Rosie. It never really was. It’s about finding the weak seams in American democracy and prying them open until the entire foundation splits apart.

I spent years by this man’s side. I know how he thinks. This wasn’t said in jest or hyperbole. It was a balloon floated into the ether to see who salutes, who shrugs, and who screams. And the silence, my Substack friends—the fuckin’ silence* from too many so-called patriots—is deafening. Because if Trump can get the courts, or even a whisper of legal standing, to strip Rosie of her citizenship because she “is not in the best interests of our Great Country,” what’s to stop him from doing it to you for tweeting the wrong meme? For disagreeing with a policy. For not liking how you look.

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