Rosie O’Donnell says her 12-year-old autistic child becomes extremely upset about President Trump, even “smashing her hand on the table,” because she believes he forced their family to leave the United States.
“My daughter is now saying, ‘Damn him, damn Trump’ and smashing her hand on the table,” O’Donnell told ex-CNN affiliate Jim Acosta during a recent appearance on the Jim Acosta Show.
“And I said, ‘Wow, honey, what are you thinking?’ And she said, ‘He made us move in order for our own safety, and now he’s destroying the country!’” O’Donnell further claimed.
O’Donnell, an infamous opponent of Trump since his early days in politics, also said: “Listen, she lives here [Ireland], she hears what I’m saying to you — not that I go around speaking like this every day if it’s not an interview — but I think to myself, ‘You don’t want to give this to her.’”
“Whatever this thing is, of me thinking that I have to somehow stand in defiance of him. No, no, I don’t, somebody can tap me out, you know?” O’Donnell said. “I did 22 years, I don’t really need to do any more, and I don’t want my kid to be so affected by it, and, you know, she has autism.”
Acosta then asked: “But she recognizes what’s going on?”
O’Donnell replied by pausing briefly before answering, “Yes.”
O’Donnell left the U.S. in January, just before Trump’s second inauguration, relocating to Ireland with her 12-year-old child, Clay, who identifies as non-binary. Though she says she doesn’t “go around speaking like this every day” except in interviews, her TikTok is filled with videos of her delivering fear-laden rants about President Trump from her home.
Social media users critcized O’Donnell over her remarks to Acosta.
“Rosie’s so consumed by Trump hate that she’s poisoning her own autistic daughter with it,” one X user said. “Passing TDS to a vulnerable kid isn’t activism; it’s neglect. Time for her to do some self-reflection before it does more damage. Poor kid.”
“You ripped your autistic kid from her home because you scared her into believing you guys weren’t safe in America. And somehow you don’t understand that it’s you, not Trump, who is responsible,” another wrote.
“She’s making her daughter miserable because she’s a complete idiot,” added another.
Another user labeled O’Donnell as being unable to “take responsibility for her own actions,” adding: “Trump didn’t force her to move, that was her decision. Her daughter is only emulating behaviors learned from prune-face’s constant hate mongering around the house.”
“What a class act. Blaming her entire miserable existence on Trump then ultimately blaming him for her daughter’s behavior,” another user said. “I am sure her daughter is not on the internet researching Trump. Rosie is a crappy parent who left to Ireland for attention. A horrible individual.”
“Child abuse,” another wrote. “This is one of the most grotesque things I’ve seen out of Rosie and that’s a high bar.”
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