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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 142 points 1 week ago (14 children)

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]

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 67 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 33 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] mystik@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week 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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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] clanker_victim_555@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case

[–] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

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

[–] tryitout@infosec.pub 12 points 1 week 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...

[–] raze2012@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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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[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow. She seems a lot cooler than I thought.

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[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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?”

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] protist@retrofed.com 7 points 1 week 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@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Loce@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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)

Wow I had the exact same mix-up.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Epp@lemmus.org 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Didn't she compare black people to apes, and then claim it wasn't racist, just political?

Edit: Nevermind, that was Roseanne Barr. Rosie O'Donnell is the good Rosie.

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[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TIL that nobody here knows the difference between Rosie O'Donnell and Roseanne Barr.

Jesus Christ people

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Antivaxers wouldn't do shit if not for the help of all the murderers in charge of the institutions that suppose to prevent outbreaks.

[–] YeahToast@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago

Didn't trump suggest to drink bleach and get a UV light internally somehow? That man is balls deep in antivaxx lore

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 week ago

Anti vaxxersv aren’t supposed to run the government or anything for that fucking matter.

We should stop them because their opinion is dog shit and harmful.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

Solid joke, Rosie's still got it

[–] whereitsat@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

i never liked her. rosie o'donnell became the white oprah in the late 90s. she was the antidote to all the trashy daytime talk shows that saturated the airwaves at the time. she was pure and whole some. but there was a darkness underneath her everywoman, standup comedian charm.

she spoke the language of fearful, boring, white suburban moms; these were the type of moms who cut off their children if they were gay or smoked a doobie. she was never really funny or charming unless you spent a lot of time at the applebee's happy hours and giggled when your male co-worker referenced the macarena in a lame joke that was 3 or 4 years out of fashion, but she could fool you.

her rise to fame and fortune is uniquely american in a very bad way. she doesn't deserve celebration, only ridicule. lots of people dislike trump, at least 80% of the internet does.

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[–] SteveLeo@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These two should’ve duked it out on the lawn for the UFC event. I would’ve watched that.

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[–] BlonksClown@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] cuerdo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Did she merge with Bannon?

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