Comedian Rosie O’Donnell – who has a long-standing feud with President Trump – told CNN on Tuesday that his re-election is what forced her to flee to Ireland, adding that it’s “very very sad” to see what his administration has done to the country.
The former host of “The View” on Tuesday told journalists Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown that she had planned to leave the US if Trump won the election after reading Project 2025.
Rosie O’Donnell told CNN that President Trump’s re-election is what forced her to flee to Ireland. CNN
The comedian said she knew she had to leave the country with her non-binary child after she read Project 2025. CNN“I knew after reading Project 2025 that if Trump got in, it was time for me and my non-binary child to leave the country,” O’Donnell said of her 12-year-old child Clay.
“I have no regrets. Not a day has gone by that I thought it was the wrong decision. I was welcomed with open arms,” she said, adding that she made the choice with her family and therapist.
O’Donnell said “it’s been heartbreaking” to watch the Trump administration at work in the US while she builds her new life in Ireland.
Trump has paid “no mind to any of the laws that the founds stood by and that our country stands for and that is a beacon of shining light and freedom for the rest of the world,” O’Donnell continued.
“It’s bad as they promised and even a little bit worse and it’s been heartbreaking and personally very very sad to watch.”
President Trump and comedian Rosie O’Donnell have a long-standing feud. SAMUEL CORUM/POOL/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockO’Donnell and Trump have exchanged biting remarks back and forth for nearly two decades, dating back to a comment the actress made on “The View” in 2006.
At the time, she ridiculed Trump for acting like a “moral authority” when he “left the first wife, had an affair, left the second wife, had an affair, had kids both times.”
Trump hit back, and the two have kept on leveling insults at one another, with tensions only heating up during his first presidential campaign.
In August 2015, during the Republican primary debate, then-Fox host Megyn Kelly asked Trump about his use of language like “fat pigs,” “dogs,” “slobs” and “disgusting animals” to describe women.
“Only Rosie O’Donnell,” he retorted.
In a since-deleted social media post, O’Donnell called Trump an “orange anus.”
After his election, in 2017, she called him a “madman” and argued his win put the nation “on the brink of nuclear war.”
