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Rosie O’Donnell says her long-running feud with Donald Trump has unexpectedly given her career a boost, joking that the U.S. president has made her “re-famous.”
Speaking on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, O’Donnell said, “I feel like recently I’m re-famous. That’s what I feel. I told my kids, ‘Well kids, hold on because mommy’s re-famous.’” She attributed the renewed attention to Trump, whom she referred to as “Mango Mussolini,” adding, “He didn’t know. If he knew how much he was helping my career and my life, he would shut up about me because, you know, he’s a horrible creature.”
The conversation turned to Trump’s public appearances, with O’Donnell expressing disbelief at his demeanor during speeches. “I’m stunned by it. Like I go, is everyone looking at the same speech he just gave? Did we hear what he just said? He is asleep again, ladies and gentlemen! Like what is it going to take?” Poehler called the subsequent gaslighting “so stressful.”
O’Donnell and Trump’s animosity reignited after the comedian moved to Ireland following Trump’s 2024 election win. In March 2025, she announced on TikTok that she was living there with her youngest child and pursuing Irish citizenship through her grandparents. She said she misses her family and friends but would only consider returning “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America.” She described the political climate as “heartbreaking” and urged Americans to protest and defend the Constitution, saying, “not a king, not a man, and we don’t have cruelty as part of our governing style.”
In July 2025, O’Donnell criticized Trump’s mental acuity in a TikTok video, saying, “You can’t deny his mental decline. You can’t deny that that’s supposed to be the best and the brightest that America has to offer. He is definitely in a decline and if you can’t see that I don’t know what to tell you.” She challenged viewers to stop “wilful blindness” toward a “con man who’s a cult leader.”
The next day, Trump posted on Truth Social that he was giving “serious consideration” to revoking her U.S. citizenship, calling her “a Threat to Humanity” and suggesting she should stay in Ireland. O’Donnell fired back on Instagram, calling him “a criminal con man sexual abusing liar out to harm our nation to serve himself” and said she moved to Ireland because he is “a dangerous old soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy compassion and basic humanity.” She added, “U gonna deport all who stand against ur evil tendencies – ur a bad joke who cant form a coherent sentence. #nevertrump.”
Last September, Trump repeated the threat, writing that he was still giving “serious thought” to revoking her citizenship because she is “not a Great American.” O’Donnell responded by referencing the Epstein survivors and mocking Trump’s “gold lamé throne,” then posted a selfie saying, “stripping my citizenship? Cute — the capital is shaking because Epstein survivors are speaking — I volunteer as tribute… to remind you how terrified you are.”
In a July 2026 Variety interview, O’Donnell offered her theory on why their feud persists. She believes she triggers him because they both come from the New York area and sound alike, but she reminds him of “tough girls from elementary school and junior high that said to him, ‘Shut the hell up! You’re not playing with us. Get out of here, you freakin’ idiot!’ And he never got past it. I think I trigger him like a PTSD response of all his failures in his life as a kid.”
