Rosie O’Donnell Questions If Trump Received Election Legitimately in First Irish TV Look Since Shifting

The actress and former speak present host made her first look on Irish TV as a visitor on that nation’s Late Late Present with host Patrick Kielty on Friday, the place she instructed that Elon Musk might need had one thing to do together with his boss’ huge win.

Musk, after all, has been elevated to the top of Trump’s new Division of Authorities Effectivity, although there’s some uncertainty about what precisely his title is, what authority he has, and who he experiences to formally.

However, the world’s richest man positively has the president’s assist and ear, with O’Donnell alluding to her perception he might have paid for it — if not in money, then together with his energy and affect within the tech sphere.

“I query why for the primary time in America historical past a president has received each swing state and can be greatest pals and his largest donor was a person who owns and runs the web,” O’Donnell stated.

In response to The Washington Submit, Musk donated a complete of $288 million to Trump’s election victory, with The New York Occasions reporting earlier this month that he is seeking to make investments $100 million extra into the presidency.

He additionally owns X (previously Twitter), which is among the many high social media platforms on this planet. Musk was amongst many tech leaders in attendance at Trump’s indoor inauguration, together with Fb’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

“So, I hope that might be investigated,” O’Donnell added of Trump’s victory, “and that we’d see whether or not it was an anomaly or it was one thing else that occurred on election night time in America when Kamala Harris was filling up stadiums with individuals who supported her and Donald Trump was not in a position to do this.”

O’Donnell, who has lengthy been important of Trump, laid into the president on a number of fronts throughout her look, together with the very fact he invited Conor McGregor to the White Home, after the fighter’s civil swimsuit loss over sexual assault allegations final final yr, as coated by The AP, with Nikita Hand being awarded €250,000 in damages. McGregor denied the claims.

“It is unusual to me that the President of america has so many pals who’re sexual abusers,” O’Donnell stated, after describing McGregor’s White Home go to as “very miserable.” She added, “I believe it says that we’re in bother.”

“The muse of our nation is a melting pot of individuals all created equal and that they’re to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” she argued. “That’s what we had been promised as People, and to assume that cruelty and lack of empathy is a worth sprouted from the best workplace in our nation is overwhelmingly unhappy to me personally.”

O’Donnell shared that she was stunned to listen to her identify come up throughout a latest assembly between Trump and Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Micheál Martin, when a Brian Glenn for conservative outlet Actual America’s Voice requested him, “Why on this planet would you let Rosie O’Donnell transfer to Eire? I believe she’s going to decrease your happiness ranges.”

Whereas Martin appeared to counsel he did not know something about it — and should not even know who O’Donnell is — Trump quipped, “Thanks, I like that query.”

He then requested Martin, “Have you learnt who she is?” earlier than including, “You are higher off not understanding.”

On The Late Late Present, O’Donnell stated that the president “makes use of me as a punchline each time he feels the necessity. He is been doing it for twenty years and I am nonetheless not used to it each time he does.”

Including some context and backstory to that, O’Donnell instructed The Late Late Present that it began “once I instructed the reality about him on a program known as The View — the place it was my job to speak about popular culture and politics. I discussed his bankruptcies, and I discussed all the sexual assault fees, and I discussed that he was not, in reality, the businessman everybody thinks he’s … He was very offended, to say the least, and he hasn’t let it go.”

Talking about the newest call-out, O’Donnell stated, “I felt very troubled that they put the Taoiseach in that place and did not deal with him with the respect {that a} chief of that sort deserves once they’re visiting the White Home,” she instructed Kielty.

She shared that she despatched a word as apology to the Irish chief after the incident, explaining a few of the backstory between her and Trump, saying she “received a word again that they’d obtained it and thanked me.”

O’Donnell shared that she moved to Eire in mid-January, proper across the time Trump was taking workplace in January twentieth because the forty seventh president of america. The comic has Irish grandparents, so has roots within the nation. By means of this connection, she is within the technique of getting Irish citizenship, per TMZ.

“It is actually felt like residence since I have been right here,” she stated. O’Donnell has stated that in the interim, she has no intentions to return to america … however the door is not closed fully.

“When it’s secure for all residents to have equal rights there in America, that’s once we will contemplate coming again,” she stated in a TikTok video earlier this month saying that she had moved.

TMZ reported that they reached out to the White Home about her introduced exit from the U.S. and received a response from spokesperson Taylor Rogers, who instructed the outlet, “Guarantees made, guarantees saved. Good riddance!”

O’Donnell joins a listing of different People who’ve ditched the U.S. since Trump took workplace, together with Ellen DeGeneres and her spouse Portia de Rossi.