Mark Hamill considered an international move after the 2024 presidential election.
“I still believe there are more honest, decent people than there are the MAGA crowd,” the Star Wars star, 73, told The Times in an interview published on Saturday, August 16, referring to the political movement made popular by current President Donald Trump.
Hamill, known for sharing his political beliefs online, added that after Trump won the 2024 presidential election he told his wife, Marilou York, to choose: move to London, or move to Ireland.
“She’s very clever,” he continued. “She didn’t respond right away but a week later she said, ‘I’m surprised you would allow him to force you out of your own country.’ That son of a bitch, I thought. I’m not leaving.”
Ellen DeGeneres is showing her support for friend Rosie O’Donnell as President Donald Trump erroneously claims to threaten her U.S. citizenship. “Good for you @rosie,” DeGeneres, 67, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, July 13, sharing screenshots of the president’s post on his social media app, Truth Social, and O’Donnell’s subsequent response. On Saturday, July 12, […]
While Hamill decided to stay put despite the country’s current political climate, other Hollywood A-listers and celebrities have decided to leave the United States and its diplomatic upheaval behind, including Rosie O’Donnell and Ellen DeGeneres.
“We chose Ireland and didn’t really know where to go,” O’Donnell, 63, exclusively told Us Weekly earlier this year, admitting that she relocated with her child, who has autism, because of Trump’s 2024 presidential election win.
“And someone said Dalkey and I found a house online that was in Glengarry. But when the people who were helping us move in went there, there was mold in it.”
O’Donnell later told Us that she was surprised to learn that her fellow former daytime talk show host, DeGeneres, had also relocated for political reasons.
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“I’ve never really known Ellen to say anything political in her life, so I was surprised to read that she left because of President Trump. Like, that shocked me, actually,” she told Us. “I’ve been a political person my whole life, for better or worse, it’s just a different way to be in the world. I was very clear about the reason why I was leaving, and I don’t think it came as a surprise to anyone. We’re not really in each other’s worlds, and it’s been kind of awkward but you know what? I wish her the best. I [hope] that she has peace and love in her life and that she is OK.”
She continued, “I don’t want to fight against another gay woman. It’s not like we’re tenaciously opposed to each other. We’re just very different people. We have had some stuff in the past that we never resolved. And not in any way as, as partners or lovers or anything like that, just as friends and comedians, but I wish her the best. I seriously do. I think that there’s enough room in the world for all of the gay comedians and we all need to stick together because gay people are the next group to be threatened. And the way they attack trans people is absolutely terrifying. If people don’t understand that they’re a vital part of the LGBTQIA+ community, that’s tragic because we protect our own, especially the most vulnerable.”
As President Trump and the Republican party leadership continues to promote and pass anti-trans legislation aimed primarily at trans youth, the president has also publicly attacked O’Donnell via his social media website, Truth Social.
“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interest of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote via the platform in July. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
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(According to expert Julia Gelatt, who spoke to The New York Times, a president does not have the power to take away a U.S-born citizen’s citizenship.)
O’Donnell responded to the president’s threats shortly after via Instagram.
“Hey donald — you’re rattled again? 18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours. You call me a threat to humanity – but I’m everything you fear: a loud woman a queer woman a mother who tells the truth an american who got out of the country b4 u set it ablaze,” O’Donnell wrote at the time, sharing a photo of the president posing next to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. “You build walls — I build life for my autistic kid in a country where decency still exists. You crave loyalty – I teach my children to question power. You sell fear on golf courses — I nurture, I create, I persist. You are everything that is wrong with america — and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it. You want to revoke my citizenship? Go ahead and try, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. I’m not yours to silence i never was.”
