Rosie O’Donnell spills major tea on her years-long feud with Trump & her falling out with Ellen
Here’s just a sample of what she had to say about him after he was recently indicted for a second time:O’Donnell and Trump’s years-long feud began back during her days co-hosting The View, when he called her “a real loser,” “fat,” and “a woman out of control” for criticizing then-Miss USA Tara Conner.In a new wide-ranging interview with The Hollywood Reporter, O’Donnell opens about the early days of their clash, who she believes is complicit in enabling Trump’s rise to political prominence, and what lead to all her beef with Ellen DeGeneres.“[David] Letterman had him on and was laughing, and all the political shows had him on,” she said about Trump badmouthing her in the press back in 2006. “He was even on sports shows talking about it.
And it was not just an attack on me but on all women he doesn’t deem worthy, whether they’re in his mind not pretty enough, too tough, not feminine enough, not straight enough, not beautiful enough. “She added: “And he never turns away from any kind of public feud or spat or his opinion on women.
That’s what made me stand up against him.”O’Donnell said it was Trump’s behavior after Miss Teen USA Tara Conner was spotted kissing a girl in a club that sealed her disgusted opinion of him.“He held a big press conference right before we went live that day to say that he was going to ‘give her another chance’ and that he ‘believes in chances,’ as if he were the pimp and she was the prostitute who had acted out,” she added. “It infuriated me in every way.
