Rosie O’Donnell claims Trump made her ‘re-famous’ after decades-long feud
Rosie O’Donnell says that U.S. President Donald Trump has made her “re-famous” following their longstanding feud.
While appearing on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast this week , 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.'”
“I don’t know how it happened. I think it’s Mango Mussolini,” O’Donnell added, referring to Trump.
She said that she thinks it’s Trump “who did it” and brought her back into the public eye.
“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,” O’Donnell added.
Poehler and O’Donnell went on to watch clips of Trump appearing to close his eyes during public 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?”
“The looking around and the almost, the gaslighting that’s afterwards is so stressful,” Poehler added.
O’Donnell and Trump reignited their feud after the comedian moved to Ireland following Trump winning a second term in the White House in 2024.
In March 2025, O’Donnell revealed her international move in a TikTok video , saying that she now lives in Ireland with her youngest child, Clay.
O’Donnell said she was in the process of getting her Irish citizenship, revealing that she has Irish grandparents.
“I miss my other kids. I miss my friends. I miss many things about life there at home and I’m trying to find a home here in this beautiful country and when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back,” she said.
O’Donnell said that it’s been “heartbreaking to see what’s happening politically” and hard for her personally.
The 64-year-old actor encouraged Americans “to protest, to demand that we follow our constitution and our country.”
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