{"id":6695,"date":"2026-08-24T10:06:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=6695"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:06:51","slug":"trump-is-still-haunted-by-a-20-year-nemesis-who-just-came-back-armed-with-a-blowtorch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=6695","title":{"rendered":"Trump is still haunted by a 20-year nemesis \u2014 who just came back armed with a blowtorch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHey, can’t you see?<\/em><\/em><\/p>

I’m terrific at everything!<\/em><\/em><\/p>

No star shines so bright as me\u2014Rosie!<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>Believe me!\u201d<\/em><\/em><\/p>

— \u201cReally Rosie,\u201d Carole King<\/em><\/em><\/p>

I feel sorry for anyone who wasn\u2019t around in the ’90s to witness the pure joy that was The Rosie O\u2019Donnell Show<\/em><\/em>. <\/p>

Read more Trump\u2019s \u2018cheerleader\u2019 has a new White House role \u2014 and it exposes his biggest weakness<\/a><\/p>

The daytime talk show premiered in 1996 and ran until 2002, a time long before social media, and was an instant smash. Rosie\u2019s unabashed fandom for her guests was a breath of fresh air, and her true joy in giving away free stuff to her audience instantly earned her the title \u201cThe Queen of Nice.\u201d Her desk was covered with toys, she often shot Koosh balls into the audience, and her favorite nickname for everyone she loved was, and still is, \u201cCutie Patootie.\u201d <\/p>

Fully filterless, she shared everything from her life in her pre-interview chats with bandleader John McD (shout out to the DLT\u2019s!), from which Broadway show she\u2019d just seen, to her obsessions with Barbra Streisand, Elton John, and Tom Cruise, to documenting the growth, and eventually beading, of a very long chin hair<\/u>.<\/p>

Her \u201cQueen of Nice\u201d moniker began to fade towards the end of her show\u2019s run, as she bravely came out as a lesbian and started telling more truths about the people she knew, stories that weren\u2019t as exuberant and fun as in the earlier years of the show. But people should\u2019ve had an inkling of who Rosie really was in May of 1999, barely a month after the tragic Columbine school shooting, when she challenged gun-loving Tom Selleck on his NRA membership instead of letting him promote his new project.<\/p>

Four years after her show went off the air, Rosie joined the panel on The View<\/em><\/em>, and that\u2019s when her legendary 20-year feud with Donald Trump first began. <\/p>

There are no lies detected anywhere in this 2006 clip, including her spot-on impression of Trump.<\/p>

Some of you may not be old enough to remember, but 20 years ago, Trump was rightfully the butt of everyone\u2019s jokes. His persona at the time was of a louche, chauvinistic playboy who was encouraged to say the grossest possible things about women. Rosie nailed everything that made Trump anathema to decent people, and he couldn\u2019t handle the truth because he\u2019s always been a thin-skinned, short-fingered vulgarian.<\/p>

Trump can\u2019t stand it any when women reject him or call him out on his behavior, even when it\u2019s a woman he doesn\u2019t find attractive. But his vulgar, body-shaming attacks on Rosie went far beyond anything she\u2019s ever said about him, and even when she wasn\u2019t talking about him, he\u2019d find ways to assail her in the press. And once he had a Twitter account, he got even worse, with increased juvenile name-calling (\u201ca nasty, disgusting pig\u201d was a favorite. Projection language much, Donny?) along with shaming her for her sexuality. <\/p>

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Confident men let things roll off of them. Trump just overcompensates, and it shows in everything he says and does.<\/p>

Trump\u2019s odd obsession with Rosie goes beyond being reactive, and he would often go after her unprovoked at the weirdest of times. People forget that he brought her up during a presidential debate in September 2016 against Hillary Clinton, and bragged about bullying her: \u201cRosie O\u2019Donnell, I said very tough things to her and I think everyone would agree that she deserves it and nobody feels sorry for her.\u201d<\/p>

Read more Republicans sound alarms as Trump\u2019s economy has Americans \u2018seeing the contrast\u2019<\/a><\/p>

When Rosie announced last year that she was moving to Ireland with her youngest child, Trump seemed to take it personally. <\/p>

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Yeah, that whole \u201cevery accusation is a confession\u201d thing is glaringly obvious, because there\u2019s never been a threat to humanity quite like Donald Trump. Aside from not having the power to revoke her citizenship, he posted this because he never emotionally matured beyond fourth grade.<\/p>

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That\u2019s your guy, MAGA. He\u2019s all yours. <\/p>

Thankfully, Rosie was coaxed back to America, and to the talk show format she revolutionized, this past week when she guest-hosted on Jimmy Kimmel Live. <\/em><\/em>She kicked off the week with oblique references to Trump, knowing he\u2019d be watching. But more importantly, she brought back warmth and joy at a time when there\u2019s very little of either going around.<\/p>

GenX was in full nostalgia mode all week long, with demands all over social for Rosie to come back to our airwaves, perhaps on an endless loop as the ultimate comfort zone during our current garbage fire.<\/p>

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All the classic Rosie show vibes were there, from the toys on the desk to the fun giveaways to the exuberance she showed for every single guest. I smiled for the entire segment she did with Hannah Waddingham, fangirling over how they were fangirling over each other. <\/p>

Rosie shared delightful stories about her new life in Ireland with her non-binary, autistic teenager, Clay, and used the moment to talk about how she\u2019s still working on using their proper pronouns.<\/p>

She could\u2019ve talked about anything, but because she\u2019s Rosie, she told the world about hitting on her pharmacist, Joan, who turned out to be married\u2026to a man. Rosie later encountered the couple in the local pub, and when Joan introduced Rosie to her husband, he said, \u201cShe\u2019s not a lesbian, Rosie, she\u2019s just got short hair.\u201d<\/p>

Does anyone remember laughter? We had a full week of it, even as she kept poking at her not-very-presidential nemesis.<\/p>

Rosie wrapped up her all-too-brief residency with an old Irish folk song, updated and dedicated to the empty head in which she lives rent-free.<\/p>

Read more Trump snubbed at GOP convention as his own party won\u2019t say his name: report<\/a><\/p>

“We know you’ll never be Obama. Resign and make this country great again.”<\/em><\/em><\/p>

We are all Shawn Hatosy right now, Rosie. <\/p>

REALLY.<\/p>

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