Rosie O’Donnell opened up about her one remaining friendship with a Donald Trump regardless of her decades-long feud with the president.
“Effectively you recognize, I don’t actually have any folks in my life who assist him. I believe it could be very tough to do this,” O’Donnell mentioned in an interview on “The Tangle with Kyle Ridley” podcast earlier this week.
“Now, I’m buddies with Wynonna Judd, who I really like very a lot and I’ve identified her for a lot of, a few years. And he or she is a supporter of Trump,” the comic added. “And one way or the other, we by no means deliver it up.”
“I sort of give her a grace in a method,” O’Donnell added, explaining that the nation singer has “had a lot in her life together with her mother taking her personal life and simply the sophisticated nature of her upbringing.”
Wynonna Judd’s mother, the nation music legend Naomi Judd, died by suicide in 2022.
“And I actually love her and I care about her, and ― for some cause ― I’m in a position to put that apart once we work together,” she mentioned.
“However apart from Wy, I can’t consider anybody else in my life who helps him, and I don’t perceive the individuals who do,” she defined. “His cruelty is so blatant. His legal habits is so apparent. His misogyny, his racism, his homophobia. He’s only a very darkish spirit, and I don’t know why that’s not apparent to the world.”
Trump and O’Donnell have traded barbs during the last 20 years, with the comic just lately providing up a principle as to why she will get beneath the 80-year-old’s pores and skin.
“My principle is — and I don’t know if that is correct, however it’s my private opinion — there have been so many comedians who’ve mentioned issues about him, however I’m from the identical space that he’s from,” O’Donnell informed Selection final month, including that the 2 “each sound alike.”
“I believe I’m a kind of robust women from elementary college and junior excessive that mentioned to him, ‘Shut the hell up! You’re not taking part in with us. Get out of right here, you freakin’ fool!’ And he by no means received previous it,” she theorized. “I believe I set off him like a PTSD response of all his failures in his life as a child.”
