Actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell has made it clear that she does not like President Donald Trump, and he feels the same way about her.
In fact, O’Donnell was so upset by Trump’s 2024 victory, she packed up and moved to Ireland.
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But she has returned at least once since she relocated there in January 2025, and she continues to make appearances on U.S.-based political news programs.
On Friday, for instance, she appeared on Jake Tapper’s CNN program to claim, without any evidence, that Trump’s health was declining the way Joe Biden declined during his term.
O’Donnell predicted that Trump would die before the end of his term because his demise is visible and apparent to everyone who is not willfully blind.
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Tapper had asked O’Donnell if she intended to return to the United States once Trump leaves office in January 2029.
The comedian then responded that she didn’t think he would last that long, claiming his alleged cognitive decline is obvious.
To support her claim, she pointed to Trump’s mistakenly referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “Putin” during the NATO summit last week in Ankara, Turkey.
“He makes the kind of mistakes that you would forgive at Thanksgiving dinner, but you would never let grandpa cut the turkey — because it might be dangerous because he doesn’t know what he’s saying,” she said.
Tapper noted that Trump also appeared to refer to Iran as the “Islamic Republic of Japan” in recent remarks.
O’Donnell claimed that was further evidence of what she called his “dementia.”
Neither O’Donnell nor Tapper applied the same standard during President Biden’s very obvious mental decline while in office, however.
The actress also falsely claimed that under Trump “fascism has already arrived” in the U.S., while criticizing left-wing Democrats for not treating the current situation as emergent, the Washington Times reported.
The latest remarks add to the long-running public feud between O’Donnell and Trump.
Trump has repeatedly criticized O’Donnell on Truth Social and has threatened to revoke her citizenship, referring to her as a “Threat to Humanity.”
O’Donnell’s comments mirror similar accusations from other prominent Democrats.
Earlier this month, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker suggested in an interview with CNN that Trump’s rhetoric reflected “dementia.”
The White House rejected the claim, calling it a “desperate” attempt to gain attention and defending the president’s health as “exceptional.”
O’Donnell “quietly” returned to the U.S. in February unannounced. At one point during her visit, she gave former CNN host Chris Cuomo an interview for his SiriusXM show “Cuomo Mornings.”
“I was recently home for two weeks, and I did not really tell anyone,” she told Cuomo.
“I just went to see my family. I wanted to see how hard it would be for me to get in and out of the country,” she said, hinting that it was somehow harder to do since Trump came back into office.
“I wanted to feel what it felt like. I wanted to hold my children again. And I hadn’t been home in over a year,” she said.
O’Donnell then said she “wanted to make sure that it was safe” to return before summer when her daughter was on school break.
She then said America “feels like a very different country” to her than when she lived here.
That’s because she hasn’t “been watching the news” or keeping up with “American culture television” while living in Ireland, she said.
“I’ve been in a place where celebrity worship does not exist,” she said.
“I’ve been in a place where there’s more balance to the news. There’s more balance to life,” O’Donnell went on.
“It’s not everyone trying to get more, more, more. It’s a very different culture. And I felt the United States in a completely different way than I ever had before I left,” she said.
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