Rosie O'Donnell moved to Ireland the moment Donald Trump won re-election.
Now she is back in America giving interviews and handing Trump the biggest laugh of his second term.
What she just told Amy Poehler about Trump is something Democrats are going to want to forget.
Rosie O'Donnell Credits Trump Feud for Making Her Re-Famous
Rosie O'Donnell appeared on the Good Hang podcast this week and made a confession that answered a question conservatives have been asking for years.
"I feel like recently I'm re-famous," she told host Amy Poehler. "That's what I feel. I told my kids, well kids, hold on 'cause mommy's re-famous. I don't know how it happened. I think it's Mango Mussolini."
She was talking about Donald Trump.
"I think it's him who did it. 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."
That quote tells the whole story. O'Donnell despises the man. She packed up and moved to a different country to get away from him. Millions of podcast listeners just heard her call him a "horrible creature." And she admitted – out loud, on tape – that he is the only reason anyone still knows who she is.
The White House was ready. When Fox News Digital asked for a response, staffers pointed to a Trump Truth Social post from June – four images of O'Donnell with Trump appearing in thought bubbles near her head. The caption: O'Donnell "is obsessed."
Hard to argue with that.
O'Donnell is everywhere right now – and she is not doing these interviews from Ireland. She sat across from Seth Meyers on NBC in late July. She is booked to guest host Jimmy Kimmel's show for a full week starting next week. The Good Hang interview with Amy Poehler happened on American soil. Every single interview circles back to the same subject.
Donald Trump.
On a podcast, O'Donnell said Trump "grew up with girls like me – tough, probably gay Irish girls who didn't take s— from no stupid rich boy wannabe."
She told Variety their shared New York roots are why the feud never dies. O'Donnell's theory: she reminds Trump of the girls who made him feel small.
The washed up comedian cannot talk about anything else.
The feud began in December 2006, when O'Donnell was co-hosting The View and attacked Trump on air over his handling of a Miss USA controversy.
Donald Trump returned fire in every media appearance he could find and the war ran for months. It exploded onto the national stage at the first 2015 Republican primary debate – when moderator Megyn Kelly pressed Trump about calling women names, and Trump fired back, "Only Rosie O'Donnell."
The crowd roared. O'Donnell's name became shorthand for everything Trump's supporters despised about celebrity liberals who believed their fame gave them authority to lecture the rest of the country.
Nobody booking O'Donnell for these interviews is asking the obvious question. Before Trump, she had spent nearly two decades sliding out of the national conversation. Her daytime talk show ended in 2002. The View tenure blew up in acrimony. Hollywood had largely moved on.
It was the Trump feud – and the wall-to-wall liberal sympathy it generated – that put her back on magazine covers, back on podcasts, back on late-night couches. Liberal Hollywood did not rally around her talent. It rallied around her hatred of one man.
The View Shuts Down Rosie O'Donnell Return as Jimmy Kimmel Guest Host Week Approaches
O'Donnell also told anyone who would listen that she would not set foot in America while Trump was in office. She quietly slipped back for a two-week visit in early 2026, keeping it secret until she was safely back in Ireland.
Now she is not even pretending. O'Donnell is openly back in the United States – doing NBC talk shows, guest hosting on ABC, recording podcasts – while Donald Trump sits in the White House.
O'Donnell told interviewers she would be coming back to The View for the show's 30th anniversary season despite a tense history with host Whoopi Goldberg.
The View's own producer shut that down within hours.
Producer Brian Teta posted on X that no official invitations for the anniversary had gone out. "We love seeing all the excitement about The View's 30th, lots of plans are in the works, but no invites have gone out," Teta wrote.
In July 2025, Trump posted on Truth Social that O'Donnell is "not in the best interests of our Great Country" and is "a Threat to Humanity." He told Ireland they could keep her.
Ireland could not keep her.
And now, on a Golden Globe-winning podcast in the country she swore she was done with, she confirmed what conservatives knew from the beginning.
Rosie O'Donnell does not have a career without Donald Trump. She knows it – and so do her kids and Amy Poehler.
The only person she cannot afford to have know it is the man she crossed the Atlantic to escape – because the moment he stops talking about her, she disappears again.
Sources:
- Hanna Panreck, "Rosie O'Donnell credits Trump for making her 're-famous' as White House calls her 'obsessed,'" Fox News, August 11, 2026.
- Hanna Panreck, "Rosie O'Donnell reveals return to 'The View' for anniversary, details tension with Whoopi Goldberg," Fox News, August 4, 2026.
- Lauryn Overhultz, "Rosie O'Donnell fires back after Trump renews threat to revoke her US citizenship," Fox News, September 4, 2025.
- "Trump says he is considering revoking Rosie O'Donnell's U.S. citizenship," CBS News, July 12, 2025.