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Famous Trump Nemesis Says Feud Made Her A Star All Over Again

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Rosie O'Donnell
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Rosie O’Donnell says President Trump’s attacks have backfired by giving her a new burst of attention.

The 64-year-old comedian told Amy Poehler that the president, who has threatened her citizenship and traded insults with her for years, has somehow made her famous all over again.

“I feel like recently I’m refamous. That’s what I feel like,” O’Donnell said on Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast, released Tuesday.

The “A League of Their Own” star said her children had already been put on alert.

“I told my kids, ‘Well, kids, hold on, because mommy’s refamous,’” O’Donnell said.

She put the credit on Trump without using his name first.

“I don’t know how it happened. I think it’s Mango Mussolini,” O’Donnell said.

“I think it’s him who did it,” she added.

The feud O’Donnell now sees as useful to her career stretches back to 2006. Trump has called her a “threat to humanity,” while the former “The View” co-host has called him a “criminal.”

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The fight took on new stakes after O’Donnell said she moved to Ireland because of the “heartbreaking” political situation in the United States.

Trump answered last year with a social media post raising the possibility of stripping her citizenship.

“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote.

O’Donnell, however, told Poehler that Trump may have handed her exactly the kind of attention he would never want her to enjoy.

On the same podcast, O’Donnell ridiculed Trump’s public appearances, saying she was shocked by his remarks and by clips in which he appeared to close his eyes during events.

“I’m stunned by it,” O’Donnell said.

“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?” she said.

Poehler said the response after those moments made the experience worse.

“The looking around and the almost, the gaslighting that’s afterwards is so stressful,” Poehler said.

O’Donnell then turned to Marco Rubio, who was questioned at a House Foreign Relations Committee hearing about whether he had ever seen Trump dozing off during a Cabinet meeting.

“How about [Marco] Rubio saying, ‘I have never seen him fall asleep,’” O’Donnell said.

“Oh dear God in heaven, it’s beyond willful blindness,” she said.

“It’s really like cult programming,” O’Donnell added.

Her dislike of Trump also came up on Wednesday’s episode of “The Tangle with Kyle Ridley,” where O’Donnell said country star Wynonna Judd remains one of the only Trump supporters she keeps close.

“Now, I am friends with Wynonna Judd, who I love very much, and I’ve known her for many, many years and she is a supporter of Trump. And somehow, we never bring it up,” O’Donnell said.

The comedian said she does not “really have any people in my life who support Trump” and admitted it would be hard for her to do that.

Judd, O’Donnell said, gets more grace because of what she has endured.

“I kind of give her a grace in a way,” O’Donnell said.

“She’s had so much in her life with her mom taking her own life, just the complicated nature of her upbringing, and I really love her and I care about her and for some reason I’m able to put that aside when we interact,” she said.

“But aside from Wy, I can’t think of anyone else in my life who supports him and I don’t understand the people who do,” O’Donnell added.

Judd visited the White House during Trump’s first term in 2019 to advocate for criminal justice reform and prison reintegration initiatives.

In 2017, she separated herself from anti-Trump remarks made by her sister Ashley Judd, who recited Nina Donovan’s poem “I Am A Nasty Woman” at the Women’s March on Washington.

“I am not my sister’s keeper. The end,” Wynonna wrote on social media.

O’Donnell’s Poehler interview also included a more personal admission about her 13-year-old daughter, who was named Dakota and changed her name to Clay after beginning to identify as nonbinary in 2024.

The comedian said she has struggled to stop using “she” after her daughter told her to use “they/them.”

Her daughter’s first fix was low-tech and hard to miss. “And so they wrote on a cardboard paper ‘they,’ and then they would hold it up above their head every time I said ‘she,’” O’Donnell said, laughing, “like John Cusack in ‘Say Anything’ with the boom box, just staring at me, you know.”

O’Donnell said the correction mattered enough that she later had “they” tattooed on her wrist in her daughter’s handwriting.

“I had it tattooed on my wrist so that I would never forget, that it would remind me,” she said.

The gesture did not impress Clay the way O’Donnell thought it would.

“I thought she’d be very touched, and she didn’t give two s**ts. She could not care less,” O’Donnell said.

She immediately caught herself slipping again.

“And I just said ‘she.’ I just did it again in the ‘they’ story,” O’Donnell said. “I messed it up.”

But the biggest joke of O’Donnell’s recent run was still Trump, who she said had accidentally helped “my career and my life” by keeping her name in his mouth.

“If he knew how much he was helping my career and my life, he would shut up about me because he’s a horrible creature,” O’Donnell said.

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