Ireland‘s Prime Minister Micheal Martin appeared a bit perplexed today by a question posed to him during an Oval Office visit with President Donald Trump.
Brian Glenn, chief White House correspondent for Real America’s Voice, a Trump supporting news outlet, asked him “why in the world would you let Rosie O’Donnell move to Ireland? I think she is going to lower your happiness level.”
Trump responded, “Thank you I like that question.”
Martin chuckled but appeared to not quite understand the question or how to respond.
“Do you know who she is?” Trump asked.
Glenn could be heard saying, “I’m joking,” before Trump added, “You are better off not knowing.”
During the Oval Office meeting last month between Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, Glenn asked the Ukrainian leader why he didn’t wear a suit.
O’Donnell said in a TikTok video this week that she moved to Ireland in January and was in the process of getting Irish citizenship. “When it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that is when we will consider coming back,” O’Donnell said. She has long been a Trump nemesis, and appeared at a rally in front of the White House during his first term.
Trump’s team quickly amplified the moment on social media accounts.
It’s been a couple of weeks since the White House took control of which reporters would be allowed to be members of the press pool, the smaller group of correspondents who cover events in the Oval Office and other limited spaces. The pool selection and scheduling process had been previously handled for decades by the White House Correspondents’ Association. Since the Trump White House took control, TV networks and other mainstream outlets have continued to be a part of the pool, but the White House has increasingly drawn on right-wing media publications for such access.
