Another day, another scandal. Just after (quasi-)apologizing to the Asian-American community for racially insensitive remarks, and before that, calling Kelly Ripa a homophobe, Rosie O’Donnell has already picked her next target: the Donald. While disagreeing with the Miss USA Pageant overseer’s decision to allow Tara Conner, the clearly troubled current tiara holder, to keep her post, The View co-host compared Trump to the "snake-oil salesman on Little House On The Prairie" and declared him "not a self-made man." While on-air. And we all know how the Donald deals with public slights. To counterpunch, he’s now threatened to sue "[his] nice fat little Rosie," calling her "a real loser."
To mediate, producers of The View issued a statement that supports Rosie — and the Donald — declaring them both "high-spirited, opinionated people." Way to wuss out, ABC. At least there’s some entertainment value in the spectacle of these two battling egos.
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Rosie was giving her opinion of Donald. I don’t believe she threatened him or called him names. She is a comedian, it is her job to make jokes and fun of people.
While I’ve been tiring of Rosie opinions lately, I don’t mind her calling out Trump. As she said, he is the last person who should be serving as a moral compass for young women (cheated on two wives, his current wife is young enough to be his daughter, and he treats women like objects). He’s an egotistical jerk who deserve’s to be put in his place. It’s nice to see someone isn’t afraid to take him on (maybe she could team up with Martha Stewart?). Finally, his reply to her criticism that focused on Rosie’s appearance illustrates what a classless a**hole this guy is. And threatening to sue her? What a crybaby. Go Rosie!
Donald Trump is the pot calling the kettle black. He should go crawl in the hole he came out of. He is an unfaithful man, that did not know how to honor his marriage vows. Go take a hike!
She isn’t on a show called “Baking with Rosie O’Donnell,” she’s on a show called “The View,” which is about giving your opinions and she has plenty of them. Plus, what she said about him wasn’t half as bad as what he said about her. Plus, he should talk about failures, look at “The Apprentice” now.
Donald Trump is a punchline, with the hair and the wives and the ubiquitous branding (trump water, really?). He seems to be the only one who doesn’t get the joke. His show The Apprentice has been falling in ratings for several seasons; the ratings for the View have sky-rocketed since Rosie joined. Hmmm, who is the loser? Rosie isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but she is funny and frank, and she does an enormous amount of philanthropic work. Trump doesn’t do anything for his fellow man; if he really cared about making the world a better place, he get a damn haircut for starters.
I gotta hand it to Rosie on this one. I’m so sick of Donald Trump and his overbearing publicity stunts. He’s so obnoxious.
His comments about Rosie talking like a truck driver is an obvious referral to her orientation. Donald is not classy enough to come up with a thoughtful response but instead picks on Rosie’s weight and fashion sense — showing he’s nothing more than a sexist homophobe — the very things Rosie was alluding to.
Donald seems to have issues with women. Look how he treated Martha Stewart when her show did not live up to expectations. He trashed her publicly and now he’s doing the same to Rosie.
I’m also a proud member of Team Rosie! And someone needs to send a quick memo to really rich and famous people like Donald Trump that alerts them all to the fact that, in America, you cannot sue someone just because they say they don’t like you!
Personally, I think this whole issue with Miss USA is completely blown out of proportion. If i am wrong, please someone show me the light, but I have a problem calling a girl “clearly troubled” because she drinks at the age of 20, and she’ll be 21 next week. Where am I……1950. We as a country need to get our priorites straight.
Does Rosie get paid by the rant? Ripping on Donald Trump is like shooting fish in an obnoxious barrel.
I can’t stand either of these people, but Rosie’s been worse lately. She needs to be quiet for awhile.
Frankly, I’m rooting for the lightning strike that takes out the both of them. Too bad Celebrity Death Match is only a cartoon ’cause a cage match between these two windbags would be great Pay-Per-View. I vote for twin muzzles.
Generally I don’t care for Rosie either and think her comments are way off base, but I’m with the majority on this one…..Donald is an obnoxious, ego centric, self absorbed pompous cad…..his comments about Rosie were classless and uncalled for making him look even the bigger fool than he already is. Get a sense of humor Donald. Better yet, get lost..
I watched The View yesterday and I totally agreed with what Rosie said. I also saw Rosie’s blog post where she copied and pasted the Wikepedia information about Donald Trump that clearly documents the money from his father, the multiple bankruptcies, and the inheritance that bailed Donald Trump out when his father died. So, the things that Rosie said on The View were 100% true.
Obviously, Donald Trump doesn’t want them talked about publicly, because they are embarrassing for him. But he made it WAY WORSE by the way he reacted.
I was going to watch The Apprentice this season, but now I will not. What he said about Rosie O’Donnell offended me greatly and he lost a long-time fan.
Furthermore, by the vicious and inappropriate way he reacted and kept venting in that video clip, he appeared weak, letting everyone see his bruised ego.
He must have a very small “you know what” that is he is trying to make up for. There is no other explanation for the cruel overcompensation in that video clip.
Rosie is a coarse, hypocritical, racist cow.
And her “New Yawk” accent make me want to throw up.
can someone please kill rosie already! ill gladly pay whatever the fee is.
While I totally disagreed with Rosie on the whole Kelly Ripa-Clay Aiken affair, she called it right on the money with Trump. Especially after I found out the real “controversy” was with Miss USA. By the way they made it sound, I thought she had become addicted to cocaine or heroine, but, no, OMG, she is drinking…ooohhh…like everyone else her age. She was probably served the alcohol at many a Miss USA party. Nobody but the press cared 8 years ago when Britney was drinking, no one outside the media cares now. It’s clearly a publicity stunt and I’m glad Rosie called him on it. And Trump is one to talk when his show has been moved to Sundays because it was bleeding viewers on Thursdays.
And it’s interesting that Trump fired Carolyn…the only sensible person left on the Apprentice…because allegedly her ego had grown too big. I don’t think it’s her ego that’s outgrown its britches. I say fire Trump and bring back Martha.
I’m with Rosie on this one. Trump’s response was classless and as much as he might hate to admit, she was right about his very public dalliances. Melania should watch her back because Tara Trump has a very interesting ring to it.
I personally think Conner should have been thrown out on her butt…she may not be the only Miss USA to quaff some liquor, but have we honestly heard of any other Miss USA’s pulling such public BS? New York overwhelmed her?–yeah right–didn’t seem to affect any previous winners in such a drastic way.
I heard part of Donald’s retorts on CNN this morning. He said her talkshow was a failure (uh, no? how long was it on, and how big a deal was it when she tried to find a replacement?), she was fat (yet he didn’t reveal his six-pack), he never went bankrupt (the problem, Donny, with putting your name on everything, is that when one of your ventures goes bankrupt, you’re naturally associated with it!), and something about how she was born poor. Everyone’s born poor! Your parents may have money, but a newborn baby doesn’t.
Sheesh.
I think Rosie should give her mouth a rest.
If she wants to be another Howard Stern~ do so and get off The View.
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Being a homosexual and very overweight does not mean carte blanche to attack any person we look down on.
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She certainly has a right to her opinions, but she has zero sense of appropriateness.
Also~ when she verbally slaps people around, she should get it back in kind.
Words can hurt like a blow.
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In the end, she is a plain human being like us all and for sure~ no saint.
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But the garbage talk is a sign of how much she must dislike herself.I am sorry for her.
At her age~she should not be name-calling and finger pointing.
Leave that to the adolescent set.
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I realize to many she is a goddess.
But even a goddess has class aand takes the high road.
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I do hope she gets better and stops eating bitter pills.
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And a lightning rod? What? For the small minded? Or~ those of fourth grade intelligence?
Hitler was a master of hate.
Now he was a lightning rod and
we know the results of his hate speech.
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I have been very mean and mouthy in my own life.
It is a great way to attract attention to oneself.
But it is short lived and one
ends up friendless.
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Rosie is young enough to learn a lot more about herself and how to understand that others are really allowed their own opininons and ways they choose to do good.
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They do not need Rosie clawing their actions,lives and principles to shreds.
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You can tell from some of the posts here what a society we live in.We loathe the war, but we take great joy in hate and
destroying our fellow Americans. We cheer for hate!
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What a sad dichtomy!
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Merry Christmas
Happy Hannukah
how is that you cant email rosie on the view’s main web page. Did something happen to her already?
look for yourself at
http://abc.go.com/daytime/theview/index.html
I need more of these two morons about as much as I need jock itch. I agree with Rosie about the fact that Trump is utterly sleazy, but she’s not exactly winning my heart by barely making an effort to apologize for racially-insensitive impersonations (and that’s from someone who thought Sarah Silverman’s jury selection joke was hilarious and greatly misunderstood).
Rosie is 100% right on this one. For all his money and power, Donald Trump is a classless, childish disgrace. Calling her a loser and threatening to steal her girlfriend from her? I think you just confirmed every negative thing Rosie was saying about you, Donald. Billions of dollars and he can’t buy himself one ounce of class.
I am over Rosie, I am over Trump, I will use all technology afforded to me, to make sure they never appear on my television screen again. Maybe her new thing is to be controversial, but there’s controversial with a brain, and then there’s just thoughtless racism and false accusations. She’s not only an embarrasment to the gay community, but the human race as a whole.
Wow. I’m not a Rosie fan, not since she blindsided Tom Selleck on her show, but Trump’s response is ridiculously petty. He just lost me as an Apprentice fan. Granted, firing Carolyn probably did that, too.
Oh man I thought I hated Trump after the Martha scandal, but this is just as bad. Is he 8 years old? He seriously is delusional.
Isn’t their 15 minutes up yet? 2 more celebrities who add absolutely no value to society. They are BOTH hypocrits.
They should settle this like an Old Timey Western. They stand back to back with their gun at their side. They each walk 10 steps and turn….oh the drama. Maybe each would get a shot off. So in that very moment, they’d rid the world of themselves. Problem solved.
Don’t care for Rosie, but just watched Donald’s clip and how embarrassing for him. He comes across as a whiney joke. So what, you’re worth billions, show some class and dignity by taking the high road without critisizing someone’s looks (this was pathetic), and getting so worked up over such a small comment. I will never look at Donald the same again…