Rosie O’Donnell says she hopes there’s an investigation into Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, saying “it’s curious to me” how Trump won every single swing state and beat Kamala Harris, who was filling stadiums while Trump “was not able to do that.”
Appearing on The Late Late Show in Ireland, where O’Donnell moved ahead of Trump’s inauguration, she said “as an American and a believer in democracy, I would hope that we would be able to look at all of the reasons why this happened in our country.”
O’Donnell noted that Trump’s campaign for a second term was powered by one of his “best friends” and “biggest donors,” seeming to refer to Elon Musk, whose name she did not say, but hinting that “a man who owns and runs the internet” may have used unfair influence to put Trump back into the Oval Office.
‘He uses me as a punch line’
Asked why she decided to leave the US for Ireland in the days before Trump’s second inauguration, O’Donnell said “the president of the United States has it out for me and has for twenty years when I told the truth about him on a program called The View.”
“He uses me as a punch line whenever he feels the need,” O’Donnell said.
Trump’s fixation with O’Donnell goes back decades, and even came up during a presidential debate in 2016, when a moderator began a question to Trump by noting that he had called women “pigs, dogs, slobs” only for Trump to interrupt and say “only Rosie O’Donnell.”
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O’Donnell apologized to the Irish prime minister after Oval Office meeting
During a St. Patrick’s Day meeting with Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin, the country’s prime minister, Trump mocked O’Donnell’s move to Ireland, telling the Taoiseach he was “better off not knowing” her.
O’Donnell said that after the awkward moment in the White House, she wrote an apology letter to Martin. “I felt very troubled that they put the Taoiseach in that position and didn’t treat him with the respect that a leader of that kind deserves when they’re visiting the White House,” she said.
She said she sent the letter to the prime minister’s office and received a thank you in response. “I just wanted him to know the history and what happened and why (Trump) seems to be out to get me in ways that are startling to most.”
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O’Donnell says she is ‘sleeping better’ in Ireland ‘without the stress and anxiety’ of politics back home
O’Donnell is Irish on both sides of her family and told Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty she was in the process of applying for citizenship. She said the first weeks of Trump’s second term have been “terrifying.”
“The biggest reason that it was different than the first time he was in office,” O’Donnell said, “is because of the Supreme Court giving him ultimate power, the powers of a king or a monarch. And that’s not what the United States is all about. And it’s a terrifying prospect. And in fact, what has happened since he’s taken office has been terrifying, I think for the world and definitely for the United States of America.”
O’Donnell announced her move to Ireland on TikTok earlier this month, saying “it’s not easy to move to another country, and we really felt as a family this was the safest and best thing for us to do, and it looks like sadly we were correct,” she said, describing recent events as “overwhelmingly depressing.”
Since her move, O’Donnell said she is “sleeping better without the stress and anxiety over what was happening politically in the country.”
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