Rosie O'Donnell posted a TikTok video singing a vulgar parody song about President Trump, just days after publicly claiming he is the one fixated on her.
The 64-year-old former host of The View, who left the United States for Ireland and now broadcasts her political grievances from abroad, recorded herself singing a reworked version of a Wizard of Oz tune aimed squarely at the president. The lyrics mock Trump's body, call him insane, and appear to reference the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, that left former fire chief Corey Comperatore dead.
O'Donnell introduced the performance by saying she wrote the song after watching "a review of the White House Correspondents' dinner." She then launched into lines about Trump's "approval rate," his personal hygiene, and his intelligence, or alleged lack of it. Breitbart News published the lyrics and video on July 27.
Among the lines O'Donnell sang:
"His approval rate is 30, his diaper's always dirty. I think the guy's insane, da da, duh duh, da da da."
She also sang that Trump "ain't no stable genius" and has a "teeny tiny" anatomy, language that, whatever one thinks of the president, reads less like political commentary and more like a grade-school taunt set to music.
One lyric stood out for a different reason. O'Donnell sang that Trump "grew a magic ear" and "stole billions in a year, 'cause he doesn't have a brain." The "magic ear" line appears to reference the Butler rally shooting, where Trump was struck in the ear and Comperatore was killed shielding his family. Treating an assassination attempt that took a man's life as a punchline is a choice that speaks for itself.
O'Donnell moved to Ireland on January 15, 2025, with her 12-year-old daughter Dakota, days before Trump's inauguration. She has said she is pursuing Irish citizenship through her grandparents' heritage. In a TikTok confirming the move, the New York Post reported, O'Donnell told followers to "protect your sanity" and said she would consider returning "when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America."
Leaving the country, however, did not mean leaving the fight. O'Donnell has continued posting political videos on TikTok from overseas. On June 20, Breitbart reported that she claimed Trump would use "an assassination attempt or terrorist bombing" to cancel midterm elections. On July 18, barely a week before the parody video surfaced, she declared that Trump is "obsessed" with her.
The timeline undercuts that claim. O'Donnell is the one producing a steady stream of content about the president, not the other way around. She ended her latest song by addressing Trump directly: "I hope you enjoy that, Donald. That's for you."
The friction between O'Donnell and Trump dates to 2006, when she criticized him on The View over his handling of a Miss USA controversy. The back-and-forth escalated over the years and sharpened after Trump entered politics. Fox News noted that O'Donnell has appeared on Ireland's Late Late Show, telling the audience, "The President of the United States has it out for me and has for 20 years."
O'Donnell has also posted a video in which she said she forgives Trump supporters, blaming producer Mark Burnett's The Apprentice for creating Trump's image as a successful businessman.
"I forgive them for making the mistake of believing the Americanized propaganda where we sold a conman as a businessman."
That framing, casting tens of millions of voters as victims of a TV con, is its own kind of condescension. But it is at least less crude than singing about the president's anatomy on a social media app.
O'Donnell's public profile is about to rise again. Jimmy Kimmel announced he is taking a two-month break from his ABC late-night show, and O'Donnell will guest-host for a week starting August 17. Kimmel did not pretend the booking was apolitical. The Washington Examiner reported that Kimmel told his audience he asked O'Donnell to fill in "as a special treat for our commander in chief."
Kimmel's own break comes months after ABC suspended his show following a monologue about Charlie Kirk's assassination that drew widespread criticism. The network pulled him off the air from September 17 through 22. Handing the desk to O'Donnell, a figure whose entire public brand now revolves around antagonizing the president, suggests Kimmel learned nothing from that suspension.
Trump, for his part, has responded to O'Donnell's move abroad with characteristic bluntness. He posted that he was "giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship" because "Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country."
O'Donnell's song also included lines accusing Trump of lying, cheating, and stealing, and compared him unfavorably to former President Obama. She sang that Trump "still dreams that he's Putin" while "our country, he is lootin'." She called him "a stain" on "humanity."
"All he does is cause us trauma 'cause he'll never be Obama, 'cause he doesn't have a brain."
None of these claims came with evidence, sourcing, or argument. They were assertions set to a show tune and posted on TikTok from another country. O'Donnell offered no policy critique, no data, no specific failure of governance. She offered body-shaming, diaper jokes, and a winking reference to a day when a man died.
And this is the person who, nine days earlier, told the world that Trump is the one who can't let go.
O'Donnell left America, told everyone she was protecting her sanity, and has spent her time abroad producing exactly the kind of obsessive, vulgar content she accuses the other side of trafficking in. The contradiction is not subtle. She just put it to music.
