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[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 131 points 19 hours ago

I didn't recognize this person and people in the comments seem skeptical about this person:

I looked her up, i believe this is Rosie O'Donnell, comedian turned tv show presenter.

Relevant bits according to wiki on politics, ideology and Trump.

O'Donnell came out as a lesbian in 2002. An outspoken advocate for lesbian rights and gay adoption issues, she is a foster and adoptivemother.

From 2006 to 2007, O'Donnell endured a controversial run as the moderator on the daytime talk show The View, which included a public feud with future president Donald Trumpand on-air disputes regarding the Bush administration's policies with the Iraq War.

In early 2025, shortly after Trump was inaugurated for a second presidential term, O'Donnell moved to Ireland and applied for Irish citizenship through descent.[2] In July 2025, Trump threatened to revoke her U.S. birthright citizenship.[3]

After the Columbine shootings, O'Donnell became an outspoken supporter of gun control

O'Donnell sometimes provoked debate, at one time stating "radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam."[40] On the February 24, 2003, episode of Phil Donahue's talk show, O'Donnell referred to the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston resulting in $157 million awarded to 983 claimants,[41] stating "I hope the Catholic Church gets sued until the end of time. Maybe, you know, we can melt down some of the gold toilets in the Pope's Vatican and pay off some of the lawsuits because, the whole tenet of living a Christ-like life, has been lost in Catholicism."[42]

In December 2006, O'Donnell criticized Donald Trump for holding a press conference to reinstate Miss USA Tara Conner, who had violated pageant guidelines, accusing him of using her scandal to "generate publicity for the Miss USA Pageant" (to which he owned the rights) by announcing he was giving her a second chance.[58][59] O'Donnell commented that due to Trump's multiple marital affairs and questionable business bankruptcies, he was not a moral authority for young people in America. She stated, "Left the first wife, had an affair. Left the second wife, had an affair – but he's the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America."[59]In response, Trump began a "vicious" mass media blitz in which he appeared on various television shows, either in person or by phone, threatening to sue O'Donnell (he never did).[60]He called her names, insulted her by saying he would "send one of my friends to pick up her girlfriend [Kelli] and I think it would be easy", and claimed that Barbara Walters regretted hiring her.[60][61][62][63]

Over her career, O'Donnell has developed a reputation for raising funds and her own philanthropy to charitable causes. In May 1996, Warner Books advanced O'Donnell $3 million to write a memoir.[116] She used the money to seed her For All Kids Foundation to help institute national standards for day care across the country.[116]

Since 1997, Rosie's For All Kids Foundation, overseen by Elizabeth Birch, has awarded more than $22 million in Early Childhood Care and Education program grants to over 900 nonprofit organizations.[128] On October 30, 2006, she was honored by the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.[129] "It's our privilege to be honoring and hosting Rosie," said NYSPCC president David Stack in a statement.

O'Donnell is a Democrat.[143] She has contributed funds to multiple political campaigns, including to the campaign to elect Senator Doug Jones of Alabama.[144][145]

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah Rosie is pretty legit

[-] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 14 hours ago

Wow. She seems a lot cooler than I thought.

[-] Epp@lemmus.org 3 points 8 hours ago
[-] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 60 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, she gets a little overboard at times, but it all comes from the right place in her heart. She kept a fairly low profile (comparatively speaking) over the past couple decades, but she's always been doing good things. I don't know that I'd want her in any position that required significant diplomacy and tact, but I'd definitely back her if she ever wanted to do anything political.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 20 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

What could be more tactful and diplomatic than saying "You brought me back — just like you did with fascism and the measles."

It's so brilliant.

[-] Canconda@lemmy.ca 24 points 19 hours ago

I don't know that I'd want her in any position that required significant diplomacy and tact

I find it genuinely concerning that Americans are more frequently looking towards entertainers for civic leadership.

Allowing democracy to fully become a popularity contest is an overlooked, and IMO underweighted contributor to the problems they're facing.

[-] architect 2 points 5 hours ago

Well, yea, but this is a human thing. Not an American thing. The president of Ukraine is an entertainer should we go through the rest of the world?

[-] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 32 points 19 hours ago

I'm not looking for any particular background, but rather the type of person someone is. The fact celebrities are inevitably more well-known than obscure local politicians probably has much more to do with the effect you're probably conflating than anyone deliberately looking just for celebrities to lead.

[-] protist@retrofed.com 2 points 14 hours ago

We've been doing this since television was invented

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

FDR would never get elected today. They'd talk about nothing but his disability.

[-] mystik@lemmy.world 18 points 18 hours ago

I almost wish she didn't keep a low profile and kept picking at Trump to distract him from all the other crap he's trying to push him.

[-] binarytobis@lemmy.world 26 points 17 hours ago

I just realized I’ve been conflating O’Donnell and Barr as the same person my whole life. Every time I heard something shitty about Barr I thought “But wasn’t she kinda cool?”

[-] DakRalter 4 points 9 hours ago

Same, I associate the name Rosie with Roseanne Barr because of the Little Rosie cartoon. I'm really bad with faces, which doesn't help.

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 2 points 9 hours ago

Hah same. I was reading through these things going: wait what? Huh? Thanks for clearing this up for me

[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 13 points 17 hours ago

It’s funny that Rosanne Barr ever got to be a darling of the right after the Barr-Mangled Banner

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Still nowhere near as bad as Fergie's rendition.

[-] protist@retrofed.com 5 points 14 hours ago

To become a darling of the right, you have to spout right-wing/MAGA talking points. That's it. They don't care about what you believe, what you've done, or what you said before.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 44 points 19 hours ago

I didn't realize that I liked O'Donnell so much, or that Trump has been such a shithead in public for so long.

[-] raze2012@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

He's been a shit head for so long that 90's films called it out. I'm sure I can find SNL skits older than I am taking the piss out of him.

... yup. 1988.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

Basically every 90s film called it out.

Watch the Some More News "movie" where they go into how basically every villain from that period was based on Donald Trump

[-] chad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago
[-] raze2012@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

here's one: https://vimeo.com/378669826 (I'll update the other post too)

was semi-annoying to find because the original NBC archive doesn't load anymore, and ofc its not on Youtube. But if people ask for it, I gotta try harder, since I brought it up.

[-] clanker_victim_555@lemmy.world 61 points 19 hours ago

He's been a public shit head since at least 1989 when he called for the death penalty for some innocent teens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case

[-] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago

Before 1989 he was best known as sleazy and lower profile racist.

[-] tryitout@infosec.pub 10 points 15 hours ago

Colin Moore, one of the attorneys defending one of the Central Park defendants, said that the ad "proved that anything is possible in America", and that "even a fool can become a multi-millionaire."

A fool can become so much more now...

[-] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago

Thanks, that helps a lot. I think what's going on is that people (including me, until I read your comment) had her confused with Roseanne Barr.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I wonder why so many of us were confused, the names aren't that similar.

[-] Loce@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago

Haha, well... Roseanne is on diametrically opposite part of political spectrum and oh so very much pro trump :/

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