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Last week, right-wing broadcaster Mary Walter interviewed psychiatrist Carole Lieberman about her effort to convince the American Psychiatric Association to classify "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as an official illness and add it to the organization's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
"I put together a classification for mild, moderate, and severe TDS and I'm going to be bringing it into, walking it—literally walking it in—to the American Psychiatric Association very soon," Lieberman announced.
"Each level has approximately 8 to 10 symptoms and you have to have certain number in each category to be able to qualify," she explained. "For example, a mild case would include people who throw shoes at the television set when Trump comes on, or have a meltdown when they hear a song that is associated with Trump, like YMCA. The moderates—and there are many more symptoms, I can't really get into all of them—but for moderates, TDS has taken over more of their lives. And for severe, it's even at a higher level."
Lieberman claimed that people like Rosie O'Donnell, Mary Trump, Jimmy Kimmel, "would-be assassins," and "people who attack Teslas because of Elon Musk" would be classified as having "severe TDS" and therefore require psychotherapy so they can "work on the problems in them that make them hate Trump."
"For men, it has to do with men who have low self-esteem and they are envious of Trump because Trump has the stereotypically all the things that a man—an alpha male—would and should have," Lieberman said. "He has a great education, Ivy League education. He was successful before he became president. He's become president two times. He has a gorgeous wife. He has a wonderful family. All of these things that these men who have low self-esteem either don't have or don't have enough of or don't feel like they'll ever have. So somehow Trump is to blame for their not having these things."
"The women who have TDS are women who have problems with men, starting with the pussy hats," she continued. "So you would work with them to help them; Trump would be the man, like the worst man, the man that they would imagine it would be worse to be married to, because he's an alpha male and because that's what they can't deal with. So you would work with them to try to get them to not have so much hatred towards men, perhaps have good relationships with men. And so you're really not working on the [hatred toward Trump] because if you get into a conversation about like, 'Why do you hate Trump?' They tell you, 'Well, he does this, and this, and this.' It's not about that. Whatever they would say, whatever executive orders they might say, or whatever political thing or sociological thing, whatever they would say that he did that is bad; it's not really about that. It's about their feelings towards him as a man."
On Tuesday, Walter appeared on "The Todd Starnes Show" where, in addition to declaring that liberals are "usually ugly," she claimed that Lieberman is also working to convince Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. to make TDS a "diagnosable mental illness."
"[Lieberman] is actually helping with classifying TDS as an official diagnosable disease," Walter stated. "HHS Secretary Kennedy is working on doing this to make it a diagnosable mental illness."
"These people are mentally ill," Walter continued. "What do we do with these people? Can we fill up some empty malls in Jersey with them? Like instead of insane asylums, we get like a little mental health hospital going on and we just fill up the old Claire's and the old Bed, Bath and Beyonds and we put beds in there and we house people who are infected with the woke mind virus."
"I love this idea," replied Starnes. "Honestly, because these people, they need to be in some sort of a hospital, some sort of a home. They need professional help is what they need."
"Yes, 100 percent. Exactly," Walter agreed. "That's what Secretary Kennedy is trying to do. They're looking into doing this. And this woman [Lieberman] actually helped form the three levels of TDS and what the signs and symptoms are, what it constitutes. It's all very scientific. We joke about it, but it's actually really scientific."
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For Trump, Domestic Adversaries Are Not Just Wrong, They Are ‘Evil’
The president’s vilification of political opponents and journalists seeds the ground for threats of prosecution, imprisonment and deportation unlike any modern president has made.
By Peter Baker
Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent, is covering his sixth presidency. He reported from the Aspen Security Forum.
July 16, 2025
Updated
When the Pentagon decided not to send anyone to this week’s Aspen Security Forum, an annual bipartisan gathering of national security professionals in the Colorado mountains, President Trump’s appointees explained that they would not participate in discussions with people who subscribe to the “evil of globalism.”
After all the evils that the U.S. military has fought, this may be the first time in its history that it has put globalization on its enemies list. But it is simply following the example of Mr. Trump. Last week, he denounced a reporter as a “very evil person” for asking a question he did not like. This week, he declared that Democrats are “an evil group of people.”
“Evil” is a word getting a lot of airtime in the second Trump term. It is not enough anymore to dislike a journalistic inquiry or disagree with an opposing philosophy. Anyone viewed as critical of the president or insufficiently deferential is wicked. The Trump administration’s efforts to achieve its policy goals are not just an exercise in governance but a holy mission against forces of darkness.
The characterization seeds the ground to justify all sorts of actions that would normally be considered extreme or out of bounds. If Mr. Trump’s adversaries are not just rivals but villains, then he can rationalize going further than any president has in modern times. Last month, he told a cabinet secretary to consider throwing her Biden administration predecessor in prison because of his immigration policy. Last weekend, Mr. Trump said he might strip Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship for the crime of criticizing him.
Demonization, of course, has been at the core of Mr. Trump’s politics since he took the national stage in 2015 to announce his first successful presidential campaign and disparaged many immigrants crossing the border without permission as “rapists” and vowed to block all Muslims from entering the country. His rallies during that campaign rang with “lock her up” chants aimed at his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
But in returning to power, Mr. Trump has been more focused on rooting out the “enemy from within,” as he put it during last year’s campaign. He has devoted enormous energy in his second term to prosecuting perceived enemies, purging career officials deemed disloyal and destroying what he calls “the deep state” that he believes thwarted his policies last time and then persecuted him through criminal prosecutions after he left office.
During the first six months of his first term in 2017, according to a search of the Factbase compendium of his speeches, Mr. Trump regularly used the word “evil” to describe terrorists, Nazis and bigots, much as other presidents might have, as well as immigrants. He used it in a domestic political context only once, when complaining about news coverage. In the nearly six months of his second term, he has used it 11 times to describe Democrats or journalists.
Mr. Trump has said that former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was “an evil guy who wasn’t very smart” and ran a “very evil regime” surrounded by advisers and prosecutors who were also “so bad and so evil, so corrupt.”
“I knew that running was very dangerous, because I knew how evil these people were,” Mr. Trump said of Democrats on May 12, during an interview on Air Force One with Sean Hannity of Fox News. “I knew how they cheat, they steal, they lie. They’re a horrible group of people.”
Speaking with visiting foreign ministers in the Oval Office on June 27, he said: “We had a president that was incompetent. We had bad people circulating around this desk, this beautiful Resolute Desk. They had, I guess, evil intentions. They would — you couldn’t be that stupid. I mean, they had evil intentions.”
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President George W. Bush announcing the start of the war in Iraq in March 2003. He famously used the word “evildoers” to describe terrorists who had carried out the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, not domestic opponents or journalists.Credit...Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
This is a level of presidential discourse unusual in modern times. President George H.W. Bush once apologized for describing his challengers as “bozos” because it was seen as beneath the dignity of the office. His son, President George W. Bush, famously used the word “evildoers,” but he was describing terrorists who had hijacked airplanes and slaughtered Americans, not political opponents or reporters.
The Trump era has changed the standards, and his critics at times have followed his lead. Robert De Niro has called Mr. Trump an “evil” person. During the presidential campaign last year, Jill Biden used the word in criticizing Mr. Trump for disparaging military veterans, which he has denied. “His own chief of staff said he called P.O.W.s and those who died in war ‘losers’ and ‘suckers,’” Dr. Biden told an audience in Georgia. “He’s evil.” Discussing Mr. Trump’s nomination of his own former lawyer to be a federal judge, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, said last week that “the motives are evil ones.”
Mr. Trump’s allies complain that he has been unfairly targeted by partisan prosecutors, vilified as a fascist, a Nazi and a dictator, and compared to some of history’s most horrific villains like Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Benito Mussolini.
Yet lately, it is Mr. Trump’s own base that is seeing evil in the president’s circle as some of his allies erupt over the administration’s failure to release files that they assume would prove a broader conspiracy surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
“Evil forces are trying to take full control of the Trump administration and we must FIGHT to STOP them!!” Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist, wrote on social media.
But a president’s words are different than anyone else’s. They carry power and set the tone for national debate. More than any recent predecessor, Mr. Trump has encouraged the notion that his presidency is a battle of good versus evil, embracing images of himself as a king, a pope and Superman.
Those who question him, then, must be on the other side of that binary equation. When the president visited Texas last week to show concern over deadly floods there, a local CBS News reporter noted that families were upset that warnings had not gone out sooner, which might have saved loved ones who died.
“What do you say to those families?” she asked.
“I don’t know who you are, but only a very evil person would ask a question like that,” Mr. Trump replied.
At a White House Faith Office luncheon on Monday, he again excoriated Mr. Biden’s team. “We’re against an evil group of people, and they’re very smart, very smart,” he said. “He’s not, but they are. They took over the Oval Office. They actually took over the Oval Office.”
Mr. Trump has demonstrated willingness to use power against those he considers evil. On a single day two weeks ago, he threatened to arrest two political rivals and deport an estranged ally who had angered him.
Asked about the possibility that Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York mayor, might try to stop immigration arrests, Mr. Trump said, “Well, then, we’ll have to arrest him.”
Asked whether Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary under Mr. Biden, should be imprisoned because so many immigrants crossed the border, Mr. Trump told his own homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to “take a look at it,” implying that a policy disagreement merited criminal prosecution. Similarly, asked if he would deport the billionaire Elon Musk, who has broken with him, Mr. Trump said, “We’ll have to take a look.”
Mr. Musk was not the only one Mr. Trump threatened to throw out of the country in recent days, the kind of threat presidents do not typically make out of political spite. Last weekend, he lashed out at Ms. O’Donnell, the actress and longtime Trump critic who had moved to Ireland just before he resumed office. He did not call her “evil,” but he did call her a “Threat to Humanity” on social media and added, ”Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
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Such inflammatory threats would have been considered shocking in another era but passed with little notice because they have become business as usual under Mr. Trump. In the case of Ms. O’Donnell in particular, some strategists in Washington assumed it was an attempt to distract from the Epstein meltdown that is damaging Mr. Trump with his base and refocus ire on external enemies.
The Pentagon decision on Monday to pull a dozen officials from the Aspen Security Forum demonstrated how far the vilification of political discourse has trickled down from the Oval Office. Once a year, the forum brings together current and former government officials from both parties for relentlessly earnest, wonky and civil on-the-record discussions of issues like supply chains, artificial intelligence, energy security, China and the Middle East.
The leafy campus where the forum is held is usually teeming with secretaries of state and defense, national security advisers, C.I.A. directors, senators, foreign leaders, ambassadors and journalists. Among the scheduled participants this year are Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state under the second Mr. Bush, and Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser to Mr. Biden. They do not all agree with one another, which is the point.
In Mr. Trump’s first term, his advisers attended the forum at times to make the case for their administration’s policies and to talk with others to hear their ideas, including Mike Pompeo, then the C.I.A. director, and Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence. But the Pentagon pullout this week reflected an unwillingness in the second term to engage in dialogue with anyone other than Trump loyalists.
“The Department of Defense has no interest in legitimizing an organization that has invited former officials who have been the architects of chaos abroad and failure at home,” the Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson told Just the News, a Trump-friendly site.
“They are antithetical to the ‘America First’ values of this administration,” she added. “Senior representatives of the Department of Defense will no longer be participating in an event that promotes the evil of globalism, disdain for our great country and hatred for the president of the United States.”
Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The Times. He is covering his sixth presidency and sometimes writes analytical pieces that place presidents and their administrations in a larger context and historical framework.
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Roseann O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962) is an American talk show host, comedian, and actress.[1] She began her comedy career as a teenager and received her breakthrough on the television series Star Search in 1984. After a series of television and film roles that introduced her to a larger national audience, O'Donnell hosted her own syndicated daytime talk show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, between 1996 and 2002, which won several Daytime Emmy Awards. During this period, she developed the nickname "Queen of Nice", as well as a reputation for philanthropic efforts.
O'Donnell came out as a lesbian in 2002. An outspoken advocate for lesbian rights and gay adoption issues, she is a foster and adoptive mother. Named The Advocate's 2002 Person of the Year, she became a regular contributor to the magazine in 2023. O'Donnell also continues to be a television producer and a collaborative partner in the LGBT family vacation company R Family Vacations.
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 Donald Trump and on-air disputes regarding the Bush administration's policies with the Iraq War. She hosted Rosie Radio on Sirius XM Radio between 2009 and 2011, and from 2011 to 2012 hosted a second, short-lived talk show on OWN, The Rosie Show. O'Donnell returned to The View in 2014, leaving after a brief five-month run due to personal issues. From 2017 to 2019, she starred on the Showtime comedy series SMILF.
In addition to comedy, film, and television, O'Donnell has been a magazine editor, celebrity blogger, and author of several memoirs, including Find Me (2002) and Celebrity Detox (2007). She used the Find Me US$3 million advance to establish her For All foundation and promote other charity projects, encouraging celebrities on her show to take part.
In early 2025, shortly after Trump was inaugurated for a second term, O'Donnell moved to Ireland and applied for Irish citizenship through descent. Trump threatened in July 2025 to revoke US-born O'Donnell's birthright US citizenship.[2]
Early life
O'Donnell was born on March 21, 1962, in Commack, New York,[3] the third of five children of Roseann Teresa (née Murtha; 1934–1973) and Edward Joseph O'Donnell (1933–2015).[4] Her father immigrated from County Donegal, Ireland during his childhood, and her mother was Irish American.[1]
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O'Donnell at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival premiere for the I Am Because We Are documentary, about the millions of orphans in the African country of Malawi who lost parents and siblings to HIV and AIDS.
In September 2006, O'Donnell replaced Meredith Vieira as a co-host and moderator of The View, a daytime women-oriented talk show.[32] Star Jones, a co-host on the show, quit, with some speculating Jones's conservative views would be in constant tension with O'Donnell's more liberal counterpoint. O'Donnell had also disputed Jones's route of rapid weight loss, alluding that it must have been through gastric bypass surgery, rather than dieting and exercise alone as Jones had insisted, which also fed speculation about certain tension between the two. (Jones later confirmed that surgery was involved.) O'Donnell is credited with keeping the show's "buzz factor up".[33]
She is also credited with making it more news-focused, though it still embraced the "fluff" of daytime TV talk shows (celebrities, fashion, and food).[34] Despite an overall downward trend for most daytime broadcast shows, ratings rose by 27% during O'Donnell's first year on The View.[35] The show was the fourth-most-watched in all of daytime in the key demographic of women ages 18–49 and scored record ratings in the total viewer category with an average of 3.4 million viewers—up 15% versus the same time in 2005.[35] O'Donnell moderated the opening "Hot Topics" portion of the show, where news items were discussed. O'Donnell gave the show a more political slant, and she and fellow comic Joy Behar often gave strong opinions against former President Bush's domestic and foreign policies, including the Iraq War. As a conservative counterpoint, Elisabeth Hasselbeck would usually support the Bush administration's policies and the two would get into an adversarial give-and-take.
In November 2006, Rosie commented on Kelly Ripa's complaints to Regis Philbin about guest co-host Clay Aiken on Live with Regis and Kelly. Kelly said she was angry at Aiken for jokingly putting his hand over her mouth during an interview segment. Rosie told the other panelist on The View that Kelly made a homophobic comment about Clay. Kelly was watching the segment and quickly called into the live segment to tell Rosie that Kelly's complaint about Aiken was not about homophobia; the issue was it is flu season.[36] Kelly has in the past placed her hand over Regis' mouth as a joke during non-flu season.[37]
Encouraged by the show to be outspoken, O'Donnell sometimes provoked debate, at one time stating "radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam."[38] 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,[39] 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."[40]
O'Donnell joked about communion rituals alongside co-host Behar's drunk priest comments.[41] On April 19, 2007, the panel discussed the Supreme Court of the United States's ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart, a decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. O'Donnell cited a Florynce Kennedy quote, "If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament" and asked rhetorically "How many Supreme Court judges are Catholic?" and "How about separation of church and state?"[42] Some conservative commentators deemed her statements "anti-Catholic bigotry" and suggested that such statements against other religions would not be tolerated.[42][43][44][45] O'Donnell's outspokenness and spontaneousness sometimes led to her views being recirculated by other media outlets, often surprising The View co-hosts including O'Donnell.[46][47][48] Frequently portrayed unfavorably by conservative media outlets and what she deemed as Republican pundits,[49] O'Donnell lamented that they were focusing on her comments instead of more important national and world issues.[47]
On December 5, 2006, O'Donnell used a series of ching chongs to imitate newscasters in China.[50][51] Vanessa Hua of the San Francisco Chronicle expressed disappointment in O'Donnell, given the comedian's championing of LGBT rights.[52] On December 14, O'Donnell apologized to those she offended, explaining that "Some people have told me it's as bad as the n-word. I was like, really? I didn't know that."[53] O'Donnell warned that "there's a good chance I'll do something like that again, probably in the next week, not on purpose. Only 'cause it's how my brain works." Time called it a "pseudo-apology".[52][54] O'Donnell later wrote in Celebrity Detox that "I wish I had been a bit more pure in my public apology."[55]
:{:{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.[56][57] 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."[57]}:
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).[58] He called her names, insulted her by saying he'd "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.[58][59][60][61] Walters was stuck in the middle as a social acquaintance of Trump's, and said O'Donnell did not feel like Walters defended her enough, which led to what both women agreed was an unfortunate confrontation in one of the dressing rooms.[62] "I had pain and hurt and rejection," O'Donnell said, "sometimes [my emotions] overwhelm me. Sometimes I get flooded."[62] Walters denied that she was unhappy with O'Donnell, saying, "I have never regretted, nor do I now, the hiring of Rosie O'Donnell."[61] Rosie and Donald Trump have a history of feuding on social media and on television since December 2006.[63]}:
On April 25, 2007, ABC announced that O'Donnell would be leaving the show before the end of the year because of a failure to reach agreement on a new contract.[64]
:{O'Donnell condemned many of the Bush administration's policies, especially the war in Iraq and the resulting occupation.[65] She also questioned the official explanation for the destruction of the World Trade Center, and stating in one episode, "I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel".[66][67] She consistently mentioned recent military deaths and news about the war and criticized the U.S. media for its lack of attention to these issues compared to media coverage throughout the world. This led to a series of heated exchanges with co-host Hasselbeck, as well as "the most-discussed moment of her professional life."[62] On May 17, 2007, O'Donnell rhetorically asked, "655,000 Iraqi civilians dead. Who are the terrorists? ... if you were in Iraq and another country, the United States, the richest in the world, invaded your country and killed 655,000 of your citizens, what would you call us?"[68] Conservative commentators criticized O'Donnell's statements, saying that she was comparing American soldiers to terrorists.[49]
:{On May 23, 2007, a heated discussion ensued, in part, because of what O'Donnell perceived as Elisabeth Hasselbeck's unwillingness to defend O'Donnell from the criticisms; O'Donnell asked Hasselbeck, "Do you believe I think our troops are terrorists?" Hasselbeck answered in the negative but also stated "Defend your own insinuations."[49][69][70][71] O'Donnell was hurt and felt Hasselbeck had betrayed her friendship: "there's something about somebody being different on TV toward you than they are in the dressing room. It didn't really ring true for me."[62] O'Donnell stated that Republican pundits were mischaracterising her statements and the right-wing media would portray her as a bully, attacking "innocent pure Christian Elisabeth" whenever they disagreed.[49]
O'Donnell decided to leave the show that day, but afterwards stated that the reason was not the argument itself, but rather the fact that she saw on the studio monitor that the camera had shown a split screen, with her and Hasselbeck on either side. O'Donnell felt that the show's director and producer "had to prepare that in advance ... I felt there was setup egging me into that position. The executive producer and I did not gel."[62] O'Donnell and ABC agreed to cut short her contract agreement on May 25, 2007.[72] ABC News reported that her arguments with Hasselbeck brought the show its best ratings ever.[73] O'Donnell was replaced by Whoopi Goldberg as the moderator of The View.}:}:
In May 2007, Time magazine included O'Donnell in their annual list of the 100 most influential people.[74][75] O'Donnell was named "The Most Annoying Celebrity of 2007" by a PARADE reader's poll, in response she said, "Frankly, most celebrities are annoying ... and I suppose I am the most annoying, but, whatever."[76]
In 2008, The View won an Emmy for "Outstanding Special Class Writing" for a specially themed Autism episode that O'Donnell helped create. Janette Barber, O'Donnell's longtime friend and producer/writer of The Rosie O'Donnell Show, accepted the award on behalf of herself and the other two winners, Christian McKiernan and Andrew Smith.[77][78]
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Charitable work
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.[114] She used the money to seed her For All Kids Foundation to help institute national standards for day care across the country.[114]
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.[126] On October 30, 2006, she was honored by the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.[127] "It's our privilege to be honoring and hosting Rosie," said NYSPCC president David Stack in a statement.[127] "Her Rosie's for All Kids Foundation has awarded more than $22 million in grants to over 1,400 child-related organizations, and that's just one of her many impressive activities on behalf of children."[127] In November 2006, Nightline aired a video report about the opening of The Children's Plaza and Family Center in Renaissance Village, a FEMA trailer park in Louisiana.[128] This was an emergency response initiative of Rosie's For All Kids Foundation with the help of many local nonprofit organizations and for-profit businesses, all efforts were to assist the families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
San Francisco public relations firm Fineman Associates awarded top prize to Procter & Gamble's designation of O'Donnell as "unkissable" in a promotion for Scope mouthwash on the 1997 annual list of the nation's worst public relations blunders.[129] In response to the promotion, O'Donnell partnered with Warner–Lambert's competitor Listerine, who donated bottles of mouthwash to the studio audience and donated $1,000 to charity every time a hosted guest would kiss her in exchange for O'Donnell promoting their product.[3] On occasion, the guests would offer multiple kisses, and People reported O'Donnell "smooched her way to more than $350,000".[3]
In 2003, O'Donnell and Kelli O'Donnell collaborated with Artistic Director Lori Klinger to create Rosie's Broadway Kids, dedicated to providing free instruction in music and dance to New York City public schools or students. Rosie's Broadway Kids serves more than 4,500 teachers, students, and their family members at 21 schools.[130] Currently, programs are in Harlem, Midtown West, Chelsea, Lower East Side, East Village, and Chinatown. All net profits from O'Donnell's 2007 book Celebrity Detox are also being donated to Rosie's Broadway Kids.[55]
In December 2006, at a one-night charity event on the Norwegian Pearl cruise ship, Elizabeth Birch, executive director for the Rosie's For All Kids Foundation, confirmed that $50 million from O'Donnell's five-year contract were donated in an irrevocable trust to charity.[131] She is also reported to have contributed several hundred thousand dollars for rehabilitation therapies for war veterans who have lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan wars. On The Tyra Banks Show,[132] Banks brought up to O'Donnell that people don't realize that O'Donnell has given more than $100 million to charity.[133] In May 2007, O'Donnell and Pogo.com announced a joint effort to raise money for Rosie's All Kids Foundation.[134] EA, which owns Pogo.com, committed $30,000 and more money can be raised based on the amount of playing time people spend on certain games.[134] They also held a sweepstakes in which winners get to fly to New York and meet O'Donnell and attend a charity function as her guest.[134]
During the summer of 2007, O'Donnell was a guest on the multi-artist True Colors Tour, which traveled through 15 cities in the United States and Canada.[135] The tour, sponsored by the gay cable channel Logo, began on June 8, 2007. Hosted by comedian Margaret Cho and headlined by Cyndi Lauper, the tour also included Debbie Harry, Erasure, The Gossip, Rufus Wainwright, The Dresden Dolls, The MisShapes, Indigo Girls, The Cliks, and other special guests. Profits from the tour helped to benefit the Human Rights Campaign as well as P-FLAG and The Matthew Shepard Foundation.[136] She appeared again on True Colors Tour 2008.
Personal life
O'Donnell was a resident of Nyack, New York, after her 1996 purchase of "Pretty Penny", a Victorian river home previously occupied by Helen Hayes. O'Donnell later sold the home to businessman Edward M. Kopko in 2000.[137] She has lived in South Nyack, New York,[138] and owns a home in West Palm Beach, Florida.[139] O’Donnell relocated to the West Coast in the early 2020s.[140]
O'Donnell is a Democrat.[141] She has contributed funds to multiple political campaigns, including to the campaign to elect Senator Doug Jones of Alabama.[142]
On numerous occasions, O'Donnell has been outspoken about controversial topics. In 2007, she announced her opinion concerning the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, in which she questioned NIST conclusions, and alleged the United States government's involvement in the attacks.[143]
In March 2025, shortly after Trump was inaugurated for a second term, O'Donnell revealed in a TikTok video that she had moved to Ireland with her child, Clay, that January. She said "It's been heartbreaking to see what's happening politically, and hard for me personally as well. The personal is political, as we all know." She went on to say that she and Clay "just felt like we needed to take care of ourselves and make some hard decisions and follow through".[144] O'Donnell applied for Irish citizenship through descent.[145] Trump threatened in July 2025 to revoke US-born O'Donnell's birthright US citizenship.
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Learn about Rosie O'Donnell's life, from her childhood comedy tour to her successful talk shows and films. Discover how she founded Rosie's Theater Kids, a non-profit organization that helps children through the arts and education.
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Rosie O'Donnell details new life in Ireland, admits she's 'shocked ...
Apr 23, 2025Rosie O'Donnell has opened up about her new life in Ireland, saying she and her child couldn't be happier after fleeing the US. Rosie OâDonnell/TikTok After finding a home in Glengarry — a ...
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Trump says he is considering revoking Rosie O'Donnell's U.S ...
4 days agoPresident Trump and Rosie O'Donnell have criticized each other publicly for years, an often bitter back-and-forth that predates Mr. Trump's involvement in politics.
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Why Are Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump Feuding? All About Their 20 ...
TodayRosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump have been engaged in a feud since 'The View' host criticized him during a 2006 episode of 'The View.' Here's everything to know about Rosie O'Donnell and Donald ...
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Rosie O'Donnell is an American talk show host, comedian, and actress, known for her successful daytime talk show, "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," which aired from 1996 to 2002. She is also an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and has been involved in various charitable projects throughout her career.
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