‘The View’ star Ana Navarro defends Rosie O’Donnell against Donald Trump

Republican political commentator Ana Navarro is sticking up for her View family days after President Donald Trump threatened to revoke the citizenship of one the talk show’s former moderators, Rosie O’Donnell.

Navarro kicked off Monday’s live show by voicing staunch opposition to Trump’s threat to O’Donnell, which she was quick to clarify wasn’t possible unless the actress had committed a serious federal offense.

The 53-year-old labeled Trump’s threat as “picking a fight with our former View cohost” as she recounted him “threatening to take way her citizenship” in an incendiary Truth Social post on Saturday.

“The base doesn’t like Rosie. Let me just say this: This is not North Korea, this is not a monarchy,” Navarro told the audience. “Donald Trump and no president has the authority or jurisdiction to unilaterally take anybody’s citizenship away.”

She then stressed that “Rosie O’Donnell is a natural-born U.S. citizen, born here, born in Long Island in 1962.”

Navarro observed that “there’s very few things that a citizen can do” to have their citizenship revoked through official channels, including “crimes or treason or trying to overthrow the government.”

With a clear nod to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Navarro then joked, “So, if anybody’s got to be careful, it ain’t Rosie.”

Navarro finished her thought by telling viewers that the process of revoking citizenship has “to be done in front of a judge,” and that the maneuver was likely a distraction from more serious political matters.

“Look at the shiny object they’re throwing here,” Navarro said.

On Saturday, Trump — who has engaged in a nearly two-decade feud with O’Donnell, dating back to her days on The View — informed the world that he was weighing the option of revoking O’Donnell’s citizenship after she moved to Ireland earlier this year.

“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,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her.”

Similarly, a White House representative told EW in a statement late last week that it found Navarro’s on-air comments criticizing Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention center to be “stupid.”

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O’Donnell responded to Trump’s threat on social media, telling her Instagram followers, “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. This is why i moved to ireland – he is a dangerous old soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy, compassion, and basic humanity.”

Following the development, fellow comedian Ellen DeGeneres voiced support for O’Donnell, writing, “Good for you,” and tagging O’Donnell on Instagram.

The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.