I became aware of Rosie in the 2000’s from the legendary rap battle video, between Eli Porter and Envy - " yo i’ma let you know who da best by the hour, you’re like Rosie O’Donnell in a bisexual bridal shower ". - bars
TIL that nobody here knows the difference between Rosie O’Donnell and Roseanne Barr.
Jesus Christ people
New to Lemmy?
i never liked her. rosie o’donnell became the white oprah in the late 90s. she was the antidote to all the trashy daytime talk shows that saturated the airwaves at the time. she was pure and whole some. but there was a darkness underneath her everywoman, standup comedian charm.
she spoke the language of fearful, boring, white suburban moms; these were the type of moms who cut off their children if they were gay or smoked a doobie. she was never really funny or charming unless you spent a lot of time at the applebee’s happy hours and giggled when your male co-worker referenced the macarena in a lame joke that was 3 or 4 years out of fashion, but she could fool you.
her rise to fame and fortune is uniquely american in a very bad way. she doesn’t deserve celebration, only ridicule. lots of people dislike trump, at least 80% of the internet does.
Yeah, she always been disingenuous and obnoxious. Best I can say about her is at least she’s not Ellen DeGeneres - she’s got a notorious reputation in LA for being a horrible bitch.
These two should’ve duked it out on the lawn for the UFC event. I would’ve watched that.
Oh, Rosie would’ve won against President Bone Spurs. He’s a standard bully, and he’d crumple like a stack of cards.
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]
Thanks for taking the time to share this. I’ve never had any strong opinions about Rosie O’Donnell, but it’s nice to know she’s living life on the right side of history.
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.
She was exiled to Ireland. She had legit concerns about her safety.
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.
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.
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.
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The fact that you obviously didn’t read, or at least failed to comprehend, the point they were trying to make really concerns me…
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Awwww
Soft
Considering your apparent lack of reading comprehension, I’m not terribly concerned about what imaginary problems concern you.
This entire admin has been staffed by media personalities. It certainly is a problem but I don’t see any way to change it
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?
We’ve been doing this since television was invented
FDR would never get elected today. They’d talk about nothing but his disability.
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.
Wow. She seems a lot cooler than I thought.
Agreed.
I didn’t realize that I liked O’Donnell so much, or that Trump has been such a shithead in public for so long.
He’s been a public shit head since at least 1989 when he called for the death penalty for some innocent teens.
Before 1989 he was best known as sleazy and lower profile racist.
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…
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.
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
Where link?
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.
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?”
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.
It’s funny that Rosanne Barr ever got to be a darling of the right after the Barr-Mangled Banner
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.
Still nowhere near as bad as Fergie’s rendition.
Hah same. I was reading through these things going: wait what? Huh? Thanks for clearing this up for me
Yeah Rosie is pretty legit
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.
Haha, well… Roseanne is on diametrically opposite part of political spectrum and oh so very much pro trump :/
I wonder why so many of us were confused, the names aren’t that similar.
You’re missing all the parts where she’s obnoxious as hell and emits this loud shrieking noise that makes you want to ram a screwdriver into your ears to make stop.
Also… what the fuck is with all the links and broken source links? That might be the laziest copy/paste I’ve ever seen.
No, that’s Fran Drescher. Wrong sitcom. (also apparently another decent person IRL. Though she has more controversies being the lead of SAG-AFTRA).
Nah, I’m old. I definitely saw too much of Rosie shrieking.
It’s aging me how many of these comments are people unaware of Rosie O’Donnell’s came back 25 years ago. It’s all happening to me too fast.
Nothing like some 20 year olds on the internet telling you you’re wrong about things you lived through decades of. :)
I cant add what I didnt find on wikipedia
It was time consuming enough to read through it and i really didn’t have the time then so no i did not spend another 30 minuts pain stakingly removing wikipedias formatting on a phone.
Lazyness would have been to not bother making a comment at all.
Don’t mind them, I personally like when people post wiki articles because then I can read them inline without leaving the app.
Republicans brought back fascism. Don’t let them claim otherwise once Trump croaks.
Pretty sure anti vaxxers brought back measles but I’m not against blaming trump for everything
him putting a quack into the highest medical office surely counts for something at least
Anti vaxxers have been doing this crap for a while they don’t care whose in charge of highest medical office
Promoted ignorance for so long give birth to anti vaxxers, flat eathers and many types of wackos.
'Murica is the epicentre of it, but the whole world has to deal with the dribbling stupidity
Anti vaxxersv aren’t supposed to run the government or anything for that fucking matter.
We should stop them because their opinion is dog shit and harmful.
Didn’t trump suggest to drink bleach and get a UV light internally somehow? That man is balls deep in antivaxx lore
Antivaxers wouldn’t do shit if not for the help of all the murderers in charge of the institutions that suppose to prevent outbreaks.
She’s not my favorite, but she really got taken for a ride back then. They smeared the hell out of her for speaking out.
Didn’t she compare black people to apes, and then claim it wasn’t racist, just political?
Edit: Nevermind, that was Roseanne Barr. Rosie O’Donnell is the good Rosie.
“I love gay men. Without them, us fat chicks would have nobody to dance with.” -Roseanne Barr
Her descent into right-wingity was really tragic. Roseanne was one of the few series to genuinely show what life for working-class people is really like.
Ok now i get it, that’s why I confuse the two.
Thank you for reminding me, I had the same thought.
oh wow I’ve been conflating these two for years!
Only just realizing Rosanne Barr and Rosie O’Donnell are different people…
I’m not much a fan of either, but I really despise the one of them (Rosanne)
Wow I had the exact same mix-up.
and to think kathy griffins career got cancelled just by showing a faux severed head of trump.
Did she merge with Bannon?
She has to call him both “pedophile” and “rapist” before I board.
Solid joke, Rosie’s still got it
You can tell he’s actively shitting his pants in the thumbnail
Wasn’t she waxing him just a little bit ago?
Aren’t you thinking of Rosanne Bar? I thought Rosie was always anti trump
Rosanne Bar is who I am thinking of
And you really shouldn’t be. She’s not worth thinking about.
I doubt it. They’ve fucking hated each other for 20+ years.
How so?
Yeah they had a falling out and she continues to wiffle waffle to stay relevant.
This is Rosie O’Donnell, you’re thinking of Roseanne Barr.
Wouldn’t ya know it I think they were the same person in my brain until you corrected me. Thank you!
The number of times that has happened in this thread alone makes me very surprised, honestly
People are idiots.
And I’m people.
Yeah it’s kind of wild. It’s like literally half of the people here
I did that with Mel Gibson and Mel Brooks for years, don’t feel too bad. It happens.
what the fuck?
Lol. I bet you think Geoffrey Baratheon and Geoffrey the Giraffe are the same person too.
🎶I don’t wanna grow up, I’m a Toys R’ Us psychopath teenage tyrant!🎶
Oh yeah, the Butler from Fresh Prince! Love that guy!
