Rosie got a second wind thanks to Trump

10 hours ago by VetOfTheSeas to c/politicalmemes

webghost0101 94 points 9 hours ago

I didn't recognize this person and people in the comments seem skeptical about this person:

I looked her up, i believe this is Rosie O'Donnell, comedian turned tv show presenter.

Relevant bits according to wiki on politics, ideology and Trump.

O'Donnell came out as a lesbian in 2002. An outspoken advocate for lesbian rights and gay adoption issues, she is a foster and adoptivemother.

From 2006 to 2007, O'Donnell endured a controversial run as the moderator on the daytime talk show The View, which included a public feud with future president Donald Trumpand on-air disputes regarding the Bush administration's policies with the Iraq War.

In early 2025, shortly after Trump was inaugurated for a second presidential term, O'Donnell moved to Ireland and applied for Irish citizenship through descent.[2] In July 2025, Trump threatened to revoke her U.S. birthright citizenship.[3]

After the Columbine shootings, O'Donnell became an outspoken supporter of gun control

O'Donnell sometimes provoked debate, at one time stating "radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam."[40] On the February 24, 2003, episode of Phil Donahue's talk show, O'Donnell referred to the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston resulting in $157 million awarded to 983 claimants,[41] stating "I hope the Catholic Church gets sued until the end of time. Maybe, you know, we can melt down some of the gold toilets in the Pope's Vatican and pay off some of the lawsuits because, the whole tenet of living a Christ-like life, has been lost in Catholicism."[42]

In December 2006, O'Donnell criticized Donald Trump for holding a press conference to reinstate Miss USA Tara Conner, who had violated pageant guidelines, accusing him of using her scandal to "generate publicity for the Miss USA Pageant" (to which he owned the rights) by announcing he was giving her a second chance.[58][59] O'Donnell commented that due to Trump's multiple marital affairs and questionable business bankruptcies, he was not a moral authority for young people in America. She stated, "Left the first wife, had an affair. Left the second wife, had an affair – but he's the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America."[59]In response, Trump began a "vicious" mass media blitz in which he appeared on various television shows, either in person or by phone, threatening to sue O'Donnell (he never did).[60]He called her names, insulted her by saying he would "send one of my friends to pick up her girlfriend [Kelli] and I think it would be easy", and claimed that Barbara Walters regretted hiring her.[60][61][62][63]

Over her career, O'Donnell has developed a reputation for raising funds and her own philanthropy to charitable causes. In May 1996, Warner Books advanced O'Donnell $3 million to write a memoir.[116] She used the money to seed her For All Kids Foundation to help institute national standards for day care across the country.[116]

Since 1997, Rosie's For All Kids Foundation, overseen by Elizabeth Birch, has awarded more than $22 million in Early Childhood Care and Education program grants to over 900 nonprofit organizations.[128] On October 30, 2006, she was honored by the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.[129] "It's our privilege to be honoring and hosting Rosie," said NYSPCC president David Stack in a statement.

O'Donnell is a Democrat.[143] She has contributed funds to multiple political campaigns, including to the campaign to elect Senator Doug Jones of Alabama.[144][145]

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WhoIzDisIz 47 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, she gets a little overboard at times, but it all comes from the right place in her heart. She kept a fairly low profile (comparatively speaking) over the past couple decades, but she's always been doing good things. I don't know that I'd want her in any position that required significant diplomacy and tact, but I'd definitely back her if she ever wanted to do anything political.

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Canconda 18 points 9 hours ago

I don't know that I'd want her in any position that required significant diplomacy and tact

I find it genuinely concerning that Americans are more frequently looking towards entertainers for civic leadership.

Allowing democracy to fully become a popularity contest is an overlooked, and IMO underweighted contributor to the problems they're facing.

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WhoIzDisIz 26 points 9 hours ago

I'm not looking for any particular background, but rather the type of person someone is. The fact celebrities are inevitably more well-known than obscure local politicians probably has much more to do with the effect you're probably conflating than anyone deliberately looking just for celebrities to lead.

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Canconda -25 points 8 hours ago
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protist 1 point 4 hours ago

We've been doing this since television was invented

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mystik 16 points 8 hours ago

I almost wish she didn't keep a low profile and kept picking at Trump to distract him from all the other crap he's trying to push him.

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wonderingwanderer 15 points 6 hours ago

What could be more tactful and diplomatic than saying "You brought me back — just like you did with fascism and the measles."

It's so brilliant.

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JasonDJ 36 points 9 hours ago

I didn't realize that I liked O'Donnell so much, or that Trump has been such a shithead in public for so long.

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clanker_victim_555 52 points 9 hours ago

He's been a public shit head since at least 1989 when he called for the death penalty for some innocent teens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

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fritobugger2017 9 points 5 hours ago

Before 1989 he was best known as sleazy and lower profile racist.

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tryitout 6 points 5 hours ago

Colin Moore, one of the attorneys defending one of the Central Park defendants, said that the ad "proved that anything is possible in America", and that "even a fool can become a multi-millionaire."

A fool can become so much more now...

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raze2012 6 points 4 hours ago

He's been a shit head for so long that 90's films called it out. I'm sure I can find SNL skits older than I am taking the piss out of him.

... yup. 1988.

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chad 2 points 3 hours ago

Where link?

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raze2012 2 points an hour ago

here's one: https://vimeo.com/378669826 (I'll update the other post too)

was semi-annoying to find because the original NBC archive doesn't load anymore, and ofc its not on Youtube. But if people ask for it, I gotta try harder, since I brought it up.

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binarytobis 18 points 7 hours ago

I just realized I’ve been conflating O’Donnell and Barr as the same person my whole life. Every time I heard something shitty about Barr I thought “But wasn’t she kinda cool?”

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4am 9 points 7 hours ago

It’s funny that Rosanne Barr ever got to be a darling of the right after the Barr-Mangled Banner

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protist 3 points 4 hours ago

To become a darling of the right, you have to spout right-wing/MAGA talking points. That's it. They don't care about what you believe, what you've done, or what you said before.

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grue 16 points 9 hours ago

Thanks, that helps a lot. I think what's going on is that people (including me, until I read your comment) had her confused with Roseanne Barr.

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Loce 16 points 8 hours ago

Haha, well... Roseanne is on diametrically opposite part of political spectrum and oh so very much pro trump :/

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riquisimo 11 points 4 hours ago

Wow. She seems a lot cooler than I thought.

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Abyssian -7 points 6 hours ago

You're missing all the parts where she's obnoxious as hell and emits this loud shrieking noise that makes you want to ram a screwdriver into your ears to make stop.

Also... what the fuck is with all the links and broken source links? That might be the laziest copy/paste I've ever seen.

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raze2012 3 points 4 hours ago

No, that's Fran Drescher. Wrong sitcom. (also apparently another decent person IRL. Though she has more controversies being the lead of SAG-AFTRA).

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Abyssian 1 point 4 hours ago

Nah, I'm old. I definitely saw too much of Rosie shrieking.

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Dozzi92 2 points 3 hours ago

It's aging me how many of these comments are people unaware of Rosie O'Donnell's came back 25 years ago. It's all happening to me too fast.

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webghost0101 2 points 3 hours ago

I cant add what I didnt find on wikipedia

It was time consuming enough to read through it and i really didn’t have the time then so no i did not spend another 30 minuts pain stakingly removing wikipedias formatting on a phone.

Lazyness would have been to not bother making a comment at all.

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ceenote 46 points 9 hours ago

Republicans brought back fascism. Don't let them claim otherwise once Trump croaks.

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Donjuanme 31 points 8 hours ago

Only just realizing Rosanne Barr and Rosie O'Donnell are different people....

I'm not much a fan of either, but I really despise the one of them (Rosanne)

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not_so_handsome_jack 16 points 7 hours ago

Wow I had the exact same mix-up.

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slothrop 25 points 10 hours ago

She has to call him both "pedophile" and "rapist" before I board.

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protist 9 points 3 hours ago

Rosie O’Donnell Calls Trump a ‘Pedophile’ and ‘Convicted Sexual Rapist’

One moment at the UFC Freedom 250 event that left the former talk show host fuming was hearing UFC fighter Josh Hokit declare in a post-fight interview with Joe Rogan that “Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right, America?”

When asked if she saw the disparaging comment, O’Donnell replied, “ Yes, and that’s exactly what Trump is and that’s exactly what his fans are — racist, homophobic, un-American.”

https://www.usmagazine.com/...

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db2 17 points 6 hours ago

She's not my favorite, but she really got taken for a ride back then. They smeared the hell out of her for speaking out.

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Malyca 16 points 8 hours ago

Solid joke, Rosie's still got it

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Polisheocket 9 points 3 hours ago

Pretty sure anti vaxxers brought back measles but I’m not against blaming trump for everything

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baguettefish 5 points 2 hours ago

him putting a quack into the highest medical office surely counts for something at least

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Polisheocket 1 point 2 hours ago

Anti vaxxers have been doing this crap for a while they don’t care whose in charge of highest medical office

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BlonksClown 8 points 8 hours ago

You can tell he's actively shitting his pants in the thumbnail

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Tollana1234567 8 points 4 hours ago

and to think kathy griffins career got cancelled just by showing a faux severed head of trump.

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Sanctus 6 points 10 hours ago

Wasn't she waxing him just a little bit ago?

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BonsaiBoo 70 points 10 hours ago

Aren't you thinking of Rosanne Bar? I thought Rosie was always anti trump

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Sanctus 24 points 9 hours ago

Rosanne Bar is who I am thinking of

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Lost_My_Mind 20 points 7 hours ago

And you really shouldn't be. She's not worth thinking about.

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ThePowerOfGeek 22 points 9 hours ago

I doubt it. They've fucking hated each other for 20+ years.

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valar 6 points 10 hours ago

How so?

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EmpathicVagrant -17 points 10 hours ago

Yeah they had a falling out and she continues to wiffle waffle to stay relevant.

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blackbelt352 21 points 9 hours ago

This is Rosie O'Donnell, you're thinking of Roseanne Barr.

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EmpathicVagrant 6 points 8 hours ago

Wouldn’t ya know it I think they were the same person in my brain until you corrected me. Thank you!

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4am 13 points 7 hours ago

The number of times that has happened in this thread alone makes me very surprised, honestly

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despoticruin 2 points 7 hours ago

I did that with Mel Gibson and Mel Brooks for years, don't feel too bad. It happens.

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Ariselas -44 points 10 hours ago

I'm glad she's comparing herself to fascism and the measles, it says a lot about where she stands.

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WhoIzDisIz 28 points 9 hours ago

I'm glad you made this comment. It allows me to know how to tag you in my Lemmy client. I don't like to block people unless they give me little choice, but I do like to know when I'm likely wasting my time talking to certain types.

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Whostosay 7 points 5 hours ago

And I'm glad you made this comment. I just found out voyager supports tagging.

You will be tagged as the lightbringer for giving me this knowledge to sort through idiots and bad actors.

Edit: it works and is well implemented

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SaharaMaleikuhm 1 point 2 hours ago

Ohhh this also works in boost. Nice

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SlyLycan 1 point 5 hours ago

Oh thanks! I miss RIF quite a lot. That looks very promising. I particularly like the different colored lines for the nested comments. I think that's the real reason I still use Sync

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ElChinchilla 1 point 5 hours ago

Wish I wasn't a dumbass and could implement cool stuff like this in my life.

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SlyLycan 3 points 6 hours ago

What client do you use? I think I what to switch to a new one that supports tagging users. Is it a paid or free feature (not a deal breaker if paid)?

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Whostosay 3 points 5 hours ago

Voyager supports it and has a very RIF is fun feel to it with the right settings.

Please reference my other comment on this thread, it's got a picture

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slothrop 24 points 9 hours ago

Reading comprehension and simple logic at all time lows.

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blackbelt352 11 points 6 hours ago

This is Rosie O'Donnell, not Roseanne Barr.

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SwingingTheLamp 3 points 6 hours ago

As somebody that MAGA lumps under the name "lib," am I supposed to feel "owned" by this comment? As the pedophile-hater here, I'm not feeling it.

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