A post on the 'America's Last Line of Defense' Facebook page that claims Irish officials have denied Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship application has racked up tens of thousands of reactions despite being fake.
The December 6 post claims O'Donnell, who moved to Ireland earlier this year and is applying for Irish citizenship, learned that her relatives were not from Ireland but instead were "an infamous crime family that fled Wales."
The post goes on to claim that O'Donnell now has "no citizenship anywhere and has to apply for asylum as a refugee if she wants to gain entry to another country."
A post on the 'America's Last Line Of Defense' Facebook page on December 6, 2025.
Of course, the biggest tip-off to this claim being fake is that there is no 'Alexander Joseph McBarron' currently serving as Ireland's Minister of Immigration.
In fact, 'Minister of Immigration' is not a real title in Irish Government. The closest equivalent would be Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, a role which is currently held by TD Jim O'Callaghan.
Most crucially, the claim was posted on a Facebook page that describes itself as "The flagship of the ALLOD [America's Last Line of Defense] network of trollery and propaganda for cash."
The page's bio adds: "Nothing on this page is real."
Despite being fake, the post about O'Donnell's Irish citizenship application has racked up a staggering 42k reactions, 6.2k comments, and 4.9k shares on Facebook as of Thursday afternoon.
The post even caught the attention of the fact-checkers at Snopes, who debunked the claim on Thursday.
Rosie O'Donnell's Irish citizenship
The fake Facebook post was published the same day that the Washington Post ran a story about O'Donnell's "life in exile" in Ireland.
In March, O'Donnell revealed that she and her daughter Clay moved to Ireland in January, just five days before Trump's second inauguration. She said in part at the time: “And when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.”
The Washington Post article highlights how, in July, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he was giving "serious consideration" to taking away O'Donnell's citizenship because she is "not in the best interests of our Great Country" and a "threat to humanity."
O'Donnell responded with her own social media post, which said in part: "you are everything that is wrong with america – and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it."
(The Washington Post notes how experts agreed that US Presidents have no such power to 'take away citizenship.')
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While the December 6 Facebook post about O'Donnell's Irish citizenship application was false, it was correct in one aspect - O'Donnell is applying for Irish citizenship.
Announcing her move to Ireland in March, O'Donnell told her followers that she was in the process of getting her Irish citizenship via her Irish grandparents.
O'Donnell's great-grandfather on her mother's side was from Rathmore in Co Kildare, and her late father Edward Joseph O'Donnell, with whom she had a strained relationship, was born in Co Donegal.
The Washington Post now reports that O'Donnell's brother Eddie has been "helping her get her citizenship paperwork in order."
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