As I noted yesterday, Rosie is back, and she is guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live while he is on vacation.
When most people think of Rosie nowadays, they think of her feud with Donald Trump. She has referred to him on all three nights of her guest-hosting gig, but she hasn't spent a lot of time fixated on Trump. Last night, she started her monologue by saying, "A special hello to those of you watching from home and from the White House, but I do have some bad news for President Petty Roosevelt. That's all I'm gonna say about you tonight, sweetheart."
She finished by saying, “You got to realize it’s time to hang up your wig and let Natalie tuck you in. Time to go nighty-night!”
On Monday, she called Trump "Mango Mussolini," and on Tuesday, "President Oompa J. Loompa."
O'Donnell said she left America for Ireland in 2025 after the election, all because of "Mango Mussolini." She said, "I read that Project 2025 and said, 'Got to get myself out of here.’”
On Tuesday, she said, “He is watching us this evening from inside a catering cart.” She sarcastically thanked Trump for bringing her back, saying, “You know, I couldn’t have done it without you, sweetie. You brought me back, just like you did with fascism and the measles.”
O'Donnell and Trump's feud goes back to 2006 when she called Trump a "snake oil salesman" on The View. Trump has constantly made derogatory comments and posts about her. During the 2016 primary debates, when he was asked about his sexist and misogynistic comments about women, he said he only made those about Rosie, as if that made it OK.
After Rosie moved to Ireland, Trump threatened to revoke her U.S. citizenship. She has referred to Trump as "everything that is wrong with America."
The White House issued a comment this week, accusing Rosie of being obsessed with Trump, though it was last September when Trump posted a manipulated image of Rosie out of the blue, and for apparently no reason at all, and wrote, “As previously mentioned, we are giving serious thought to taking away Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship. She is not a Great American and is, in my opinion, incapable of being so!”
Yesterday, someone asked on my Facebook page if Rosie was taping the show from Ireland or if she had snuck back into the country. The thing is, people, Rosie is still a United States citizen, and she does not have to sneak into the country. Donald Trump cannot take away her citizenship, and especially not just because he doesn't like her. A president has the power to pardon white nationalist terrorists who attacked the Capitol building, but he does not have the power to revoke any American’s citizenship.
And while Trump claims that Rosie is not a great American, she has never ignored a pandemic to the point that it killed over a million Americans. She has never tried to steal an election. She never asked a state’s top election official to find her 11,780 votes. She has never created a war with Iran. She's never threatened to invade Greenland. She's never cozied up to Kim Jong-un while insulting our NATO allies. She has never chosen communist dictators over democratically elected leaders. She's never threatened to annex Canada. She's never threatened to invade Cuba. She has never neglected an aircraft carrier for over nine months in the Mediterranean Sea. She has never ruined an American economy. She has never destroyed half the White House to build a ballroom. She has never had her name placed on the Kennedy Center. She has never allowed Elon Musk to gut the United States government. She has never chosen Putin over America. She has never monetized the Oval Office. She has never taken a bribe. Rosie does not have 34 felony convictions. She has never pushed the United States debt to go above $40 trillion. And she has never attempted a coup or instigated a white nationalist terrorist attack against the United States of America. She has never pardoned over 1000 white nationalist terrorists who attacked the United States of America.
Fox News has joined the White House in claiming that Rosie is obsessed with Trump, and today, White House spokesgoon Davis Ingle told PEOPLE magazine in a statement, “Rosie O’Donnell is a nasty woman and a total slob whose brain has been completely destroyed by Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
But throughout her week guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live, Rosie has yet to mention his name. By their standard, they have Rosie Derangement Syndrome. Keep giving them hell, Rosie.
There are 75 days left until the midterms.
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Trump is so easily intimidated by strong women, and heaving insults at them is the only ammunition he's got. Pathetic.
This sofa cartoon and the other two you had links to make a funny threesome! There seems to be a really strong attraction to the sofa! JD is probably getting pretty antsy right about now! Not sure how the drippy Jergens bottle fits in--and not sure I want to know!
All of this, and then some. 👏👏👏 If I had to have a celebrity with zero political experience as President of the United States, I think Rosie would do a far better job than the deranged Sofa King. For one thing, she'd have the intelligence and humility to recognize her lack of experience, and she'd make it a priority to surround herself with experienced, knowledgeable people in her cabinet.
Also: Is Don Boy melting into the floor? 🤣🤣🤣 I suppose he's lying on his stomach under the sofa, but the thought of him melting away like the Wicked Witch he is makes me smile.