United States President Donald Trump has said he might revoke talk-show host Rosie O’Donnell’s US citizenship after she criticised his administration’s handling of weather forecasting agencies in the wake of the deadly Texas floods.
Trump’s threats are the latest salvo in a years-long feud the two have waged over social media.
“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” the US president wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Trump has long called for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, but in recent weeks, he has suggested that he would remove US citizens that he disagrees with from the country.
“She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” Trump wrote.
Under the law, a president cannot revoke the citizenship of an American born in the US. O’Donnell was born in New York state.
Trump’s latest jab at O’Donnell seemed to be in response to a TikTok video she posted this month, mourning the 119 deaths in the July 4 floods in Texas and blaming Trump’s widespread cuts to environmental and science agencies involved in forecasting major natural disasters.
“What a horror story in Texas,” O’Donnell said in the video. “And you know, when the president guts all the early warning systems and the weathering forecast abilities of the government, these are the results that we’re gonna start to see on a daily basis.”
The Trump administration, as well as local and state officials, have faced mounting questions about whether more could have been done to protect and warn residents in advance of the Texas flooding, which killed at least 120 people earlier this month.
Trump, on Friday, visited Texas and defended the government’s response to the disaster, saying his agencies “did an incredible job under the circumstances.”
O’Donnell responded to Trump’s threat in two posts on her Instagram account, saying: “the president of the usa has always hated the fact that i see him for who he is – a criminal con man sexual abusing liar out to harm our nation to serve himself.”
She added that he opposes her because she “stands in direct opposition with all he represents”.
O’Donnell has been a longtime target of Trump’s insults and jabs.
In 2014, when she opened up about her weight loss journey, Trump said on X that “she felt ‘shame’ at being fat-not politically correct! She killed Star Jones for weight loss surgery, just had it!”
During Trump’s first presidency, O’Donnell told W magazine that she feared whether she would be able to “live through” his presidency.
Following Trump’s inauguration for his second presidential term in January this year, she moved to Ireland earlier this year with her 12-year-old son.
In a March TikTok video, she said that she would return to the US “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America”.
Earlier this month, Trump said he may look at options to deport his former aide-turned-critic, Elon Musk, a naturalised US citizen.
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When Julian Cash sent down the irretrievable overhead smash that sealed a historic Wimbledon men’s doubles title, his partner Lloyd Glasspool’s reaction was somewhat unexpected.
Becoming a champion at the All England Club usually involves falling flat on your back on the turf, tears of joy or dashing to the coaching box to embrace loved ones.
But for Glasspool, it was a much more muted affair.
“My celebration is no celebration,” he told BBC Sport.
While Cash turned to his doubles partner and raised a fist before leaping in the air, Glasspool simply walked towards the net to shake their opponents’ hands with a blank look on his face.
“It’s a little flip on the norm,” Glasspool said.
“It stems from when I used to play with [Harri] Heliovaara – the winner here last year – because he was known for his massive celebrations.
“I always felt I’ve got to be the opposite otherwise it’s just too much and it’s just stuck with me. I kind of like it – I’ll keep it going.”
Cash and Glasspool made history by becoming the first all-British pair to win the men’s doubles title at Wimbledon for 89 years with a 6-2 7-6 (7-3) victory over unseeded team Rinky Hijikata and David Pel.
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Cash, 28, and 31-year-old Glasspool had already become the first all-British pair to reach the final since Mike Davies and Bobby Wilson in 1960.
But this is the first time since Pat Hughes and Raymond Tuckey at Wimbledon in 1936 that two Britons have been crowned men’s doubles champions at a Grand Slam.
“When you say it, it sounds incredible. I didn’t think too much about it,” Glasspool said after a thrilling match.
“We will never forget this day for all our lives.”
Cash added: “We had two goals this year – one was to make it to Turin [ATP Finals] and the other was to win a Slam.
Motorbikes, mortgages and sleeping with racquets
Cash and Glasspool watched on 12 months ago as their former partners won the title at SW19 – Cash has previously partnered compatriot Patten, while Glasspool was paired with Heliovaara.
Having immediately clicked with a similar game style and ambition, they have now had a taste of that success themselves with a maiden Grand Slam title less than one year after teaming up.
As a child, Brighton-born Cash immediately showed promise with a tennis racquet, obsessing over the sport to the point that his mum, Alison, says he would take his racquet to bed.
Both he and Glasspool attended university in the United States, with Cash only turning professional in the doubles in 2022, while Glasspool has competed on the Tour for the past decade.
The pair will split the £680,000 prize money and while Glasspool has been trying to “figure out his mortgage numbers”, Cash says he may use the money to buy a new motorbike.
“I think that shows where we’re at in our lives, one of us is responsible and the other one is not!” joked Cash.
British doubles success continues at SW19
Seven different British men have now won Grand Slam men’s doubles titles since 2012.
At Wimbledon, Cash and Glasspool’s triumph follows that of Neal Skupski winning the title alongside Dutch partner Wesley Koolhof two years ago before Henry Patten and Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara last year.
Last month, Cash and Glasspool became the first all-British partnership to win the men’s doubles title at Queen’s in the Open era.
They followed that up with victory at Eastbourne and have won 17 matches on grass this season, losing just one.
“We have played a crazy amount of tennis on the grass,” Cash said.
Abi Phillips, who played Liberty Savage on Hollyoaks, married her long-term fiancé Gav in a stunning ceremony at Lake Garda in Italy, where they had got engaged in 2023
Abi Phillips has married her long-term fiancé Gav (Image: abiphillipsuk/Instagram)
Hollyoaks star Abi Phillips has tied the knot in a lavish ceremony in Italy more than three years after her cancer battle.
The actress, who played Liberty Savage on the Channel 4 soap, married her long-term fiancé, Gav, in front of her closest family and friends at Lake Garda – the same location where the couple got engaged in 2023. Abi, who joined Hollyoaks in 2010 and departed the show three years later, took to Instagram to share snaps and videos of her happy day.
Her posts included clips of her getting her wedding hair done, as well as details of their reception being prepared. Abi also shared clips of her and Gav dancing in casual clothes before changing to their elegant wedding looks.
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The couple married on the Lake Garda in Italy(Image: abiphillipsuk/Instagram)
Alongside a carousel of photos of her and her now husband, Abi wrote: “Literally having to pinch myself these last couple of days because I can’t quite believe that I was lucky enough to marry the love of my life surrounded by all of the most important people in our lives in our dream venues… @gavgilly we bloody it!!!
“Our wedding day was the best type of rollercoaster and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to everyone who made the effort to come all the way to Italy to celebrate with us. We love you all so much.”
She added: “Also another HUGE thank you to all of our incredible suppliers who honestly now feel like family to us who made our day truly unforgettable.” Many fans took to the comment section to congratulate the newlyweds, with one saying: “Sensational!! So happy for the two of you.”
Another wrote: “Congratulations to you both!! You looked stunning adore your dress and the wedding looked perfect.” One more said: “Wowwe! So incredibly beautiful! The biggest congratulations, so much love and happiness for you both.”
“The most beautiful bride and groom!!!” a fan said, while the wedding planner commented: “I loved EVERY minute of planning your wedding with you.” Abi and Gav got engaged at Lake Garda in 2023 and she announced the happy news on social media, by sharing a selfie showing off her huge engagement ring.
Abi played Liberty Savage in Hollyoaks(Image: Marcus Queensborough )
Captioning her upload, she penned: “So this happened last night! The most magical week in Lake Garda, with my favourite person in the world @gavgilly ended with us getting engaged. The most perfect proposal at sunset at the edge of the lake.”
She went on to add: “The last 11 years together have been the best of my life and I’m so looking forward to forever together. Thank you for making this trip the most incredible week, it will forever hold a place in my heart. I love you so much!”
The couple’s engagement came just under a year after Abi revealed she had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. The actress, who auditioned for The Voice in 2017, explained that she had been diagnosed with the disease, telling fans: “I’d previously been sent away from the doctors after having found two lumps in my neck, they’d passed it off and said I was ‘young’ and it wouldn’t be anything and I was ‘probably getting over a cold’ or my body was ‘fighting something off’.
“As much as that’s what I wanted to hear I wanted to get everything checked for my own peace of mind. Fast forward two weeks and just before Easter weekend I had an appointment to see a consultant at the QE hospital who sat me down and told me that I had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and that I would need surgery and radiotherapy treatment.
“I never thought I would be told that I have cancer at the age of 28, you never think it’s going to happen to you. I wouldn’t have taken things further with seeing a specialist if I hadn’t seen @demijones1 post as her lumps were in the exact same place as mine.”
George Williams created a brilliant late try for Josh Thewlis to give Warrington victory just as it seemed Catalans Dragons had pulled off a remarkable comeback Super League win.
Skipper Williams had scored one try and made another for Jordy Crowther, while teenager Zack Gardner added another on his full debut to seemingly put Sam Burgess’ team in the driving seat with an 18-2 lead at half-time.
Catalans fought back impressively, however, with on-loan Hull FC hooker Denive Balmforth scoring two tries and full-back Guillermo Aispuro-Bichet – a late replacement for the injured Sam Tomkins – another to edge the French side ahead 20-18 with six minutes to go.
Williams had the last word by leading a Warrington break and then producing a delicate kick with the outside of his boot to feed Thewlis for the winning try and make it three successive wins for the Wolves.
Great Britain’s Olympic medallist Beth Potter claimed bronze at the World Triathlon Championship Series in Hamburg, Germany.
Potter, who won two bronzes at the Paris Games last summer, finished third in 56 minutes 32 seconds, seven seconds behind French winner Leonie Periault.
Periault’s compatriot and reigning Olympic and world champion Cassandre Beaugrand finished three seconds ahead of Potter in second.
GB’s Kate Waugh completed the race in sixth position.
It was the fourth event of the World Triathlon Championship Series which marks the halfway point of the competition.
Potter currently leads the overall standings, with Periault second and Germany’s Lisa Tertsch third.
The men’s race was won by Australia’s Matt Hauser, with Max Stapley the leading Briton in seventh and Connor Bentley 12th.
In a rare interview, Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh has opened up about her role within the Royal Family – and the sometimes emotional toll of her hard-hitting work championing women caught up in war
The Duchess of Edinburgh has revealed her pride in being able to give her utmost support to the King – and her true feelings about being called the Royal Family’s ‘secret weapon’.
In a rare interview, Sophie also told the Mirror about what it really means to have the Duchess of Edinburgh title – one once held by her beloved mother-in-law, the late Queen – as well as the emotional toll of her hard-hitting work highlighting the plight of women caught up in conflict. This week, the Duchess has been in Bosnia for a three-day trip to mark the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, where some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were brutally murdered in July 1995 during the Bosnian War.
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Sophie with some of the mothers of those killed during the Srebrenica genocide during the Bosnian War on the 30th anniversary of the massacre (Image: PA)
On the visit, she was entrusted to deliver a personal message on behalf of the King to the mothers of Srebrenica, who lost sons in the devastating conflict, comforting them as she listened intently to the stories of their fight for justice.
It is all part of her hard-hitting work highlighting the plight of women, including that of the survivors of sexual violence in conflict, which she admits are “not easy subject matters”.
Over the past two years, she has carved out an at times gritty role travelling to the likes of Iraq, Chad and even Ukraine – mainly to champion women and the role she believes they can play in delivering peace across the world.
It all coincides with her being made the Duchess of Edinburgh just over two years ago after her husband Prince Edward became Duke of Edinburgh. In a light-hearted exchange when asked about her previous title of Countess of Wessex, she joked: “I quite liked her.”
But talking about becoming Duchess of Edinburgh and how she will shape the role, she added: “First of all it was quite large shoes to fill because not as many of the population alive today will remember but the Queen was Duchess of Edinburgh for the first few years when she and my father in law first married.
Sophie lays flowers at the Srebrenica Cemetery (Image: AP)
“For me, it was quite an emotional thing to sort of step into her shoes [as being Duchess of Edinburgh], it felt like quite a big moment.
“But of course being practical my role and my husband’s role is to support the King as it was to support the Queen and we are fortunate because we are able to not be in front and centre role, so it allows us the flexibility to explore our own interests and then also be available to do things like this where the King asked if I would represent him here, it so happens it also covering an area of interest personally for me too. But yes, we are there to support and that will continue.”
In recent years, courtiers and charity bosses have hailed Sophie as a dependable figure in the slimmed-down working monarchy – earning her the often-used description of the Royal Family’s ‘secret weapon’.
And revealing her thoughts about that label she explained: “I like to fly under the radar. It’s all very well being a secret weapon but if no one knows, maybe it’s too secret.”
However, after a pause, she added: “I suppose I should take it as a backhanded compliment. I don’t see myself in a frontline position per se, that said admittedly there are fewer working members of the family these days so I suppose more and more I’m becoming less secretive. I just wonder what they are going to describe me as next!”
Sophie delivers a message on behalf of the King at the commerations of the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide (Image: PA)
But when asked what she would like her own description to be, she quickly replied: “I don’t know, I am going to leave that for others, it would be very presumptuous for me to suggest something, that could go badly wrong.”
With her role travelling the world and facing hard-hitting subjects head-on, Sophie admits sometimes it can “take its toll on emotions, that’s for sure”.
But even though the subject matters, such as rape, may not be easy to hear about and the scale of the problems may be too much for just one person such as her to solve alone, the Duchess say it just strengthens her resolve to do as much as she can, especially when it comes to issues facing women.
She explained: “I have absolute faith in the women of the world to solve so many issues that we have alongside men of course, we can’t do it without.
Sophie during a visit to a church in Sarajevo’s Old Town during her three-day trip to Bosnia (Image: PA)
“But it does seem to be wherever I go it’s so often the women on the ground who are the ones that are starting make the difference, who are the ones who are starting to build peace, who are the ones who are going to have to take the resolutions and turn them into actions on the ground. So it is always emotional, of course, it is always emotional, but you have to see through the emotion to find the strength and it is always there.
“When I was in Chad next to the Sudanese border, the Sudanese refugees for everything that they’ve been through for everything they’ve witnessed, the women in those camps were incredibly strong, they were supporting each other all they need is opportunity.
“There is always very straightforwardness in what everybody wants. They want shelter they want obviously food, they want water and they want education for their children. And I think it is through education that we can change things.
The Duchess of Edinbrugh with the King (Image: Getty Images)
“It’s from bottom up and top down, it always is. But I hope that my activity in this area creates continuity. I always work alongside the FCDO [Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office] on the principal things they are focusing on so I’m trying to not go off on a tangent.
“But I hope that I make a difference. It’s very hard because sometimes these issues are very overwhelming because of the scale.”
Sophie spoke to the Mirror after laying a flower at the Srebrenica Memorial Cemetery, just metres from an old battery factory in the town where many sought refuge during the war before the men and boys were picked off by Bosnian Serb forces and killed – with many of them never found.
After paying her respects, she met a group of mothers whose sons were killed in the genocide, which is Europe’s worst war crime since the Second World War.
Describing what she saw as thousands descended on Srebrenica to pay their respects on the 30th anniversary of the massacre, she said: “Outside these walls where we are now there are 8,000 graves. The scale of that is enormous. You look at what is happening in Ukraine, in Sudan, in DRC, these conflicts are huge and the scale is enormous and I’m just one person.
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“But I think if I can keep banging the drum it perhaps creates traction somewhere. It would be too easy to give up. It does take its toll emotionally. But then I see the strength of the mothers and they are telling me their story, I haven’t lived through it, they have.
“I can be emotional but that’s not going to help them I have to be able to take their message and amplify it and that’s what I am here to do.”
