Rosie O’Donnell has figured out there may be one thing Donald Trump hates more than being mocked. It’s being mocked with a melody.
After nearly 20 years of trading insults with the president, O’Donnell has found fresh material. She has already dragged his dancing, nicknamed him “Mango Mussolini” and joked that he accidentally made her famous again.
Now, she has turned their feud into something dangerously close to a one-woman musical.
On Thursday night, O’Donnell closed out her week guest-hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” with what she mischievously called “a traditional Irish song dedicated to a very special boy.” That “boy,” of course, was Trump.
Set to the melody of “Danny Boy,” O’Donnell opened with, “Oh, Donnie boy, it’s Rosie, Rosie calling,” before telling Trump to “drop that Big Mac.” From there, virtually nothing in his orbit was safe.
“Poor Donnie boy, your polls, your polls are falling,” she sang. “Your reflecting pool is green as Mountain Dew.”
She also took shots at his hair and ballroom project before moving on to Iran, measles, inflation, his late-night posting habits and reports of him appearing sleepy during public events. It was less an Irish ballad and more a presidential performance review with background music.
The performance also looked like O’Donnell’s answer to a joke she said she was not allowed to make earlier.
Before her Kimmel takeover, O’Donnell revealed that she had rewritten “If I Only Had a Brain” from “The Wizard of Oz” into a Trump parody. She wanted to perform it on the show but said the number was rejected for being too political.
So she sang it on Kara Swisher’s podcast instead.
“His approval rate is 30. His diapers always dirty. I think the guy’s insane,” O’Donnell sang. She later added, “He ain’t no stable genius.”
Apparently, telling Rosie she could not sing one Trump song simply resulted in another Trump song.
This one made it to television.
And O’Donnell saved her sharpest verse for the end. After singing about Trump posting all night and “sleeping while you work,” she offered him a solution to all the drama.
“It’s time to use that stable genius brain,” she sang.
Then came the closer.
“We all know you’ll never be Obama. Why not resign and make this country great again?”
She then repeated the part about his predecessor, landing the zinger in a way that got a response from the crowd and online.
Social media knew exactly which part might sting.
“I love that she said you’ll never be Obama twice. I know that kind of crap incenses this dude! That line is going to live rent free in his head forever,” one person wrote. Another said, “This should be our temporary national anthem til he’s out lol. Thanks @Rosie.”
“She nailed that!!” one person added, as another wrote, “It was tremendous and a perfect ending to her hosting gig. Please give her a talk show!”
“Give the writer of that song a raise, spot on,” someone said.
“Rosie can forget about an invitation to the White House from President Trump,” another joked.
“This is going to drive him up the wall,” one person predicted. Another declared that the Recording Academy should “Give her a Grammy.”
The bad blood dates to 2006, when O’Donnell criticized Trump’s business record on “The View.” Trump responded by calling her a “loser” and a “woman out of control.” Twenty years later, neither appears interested in retiring from the feud.
O’Donnell, however, did retire from America for a while.
She moved to Ireland after Trump won the 2024 election and said reading Project 2025 helped convince her to leave. She has since joked that Trump helped make her “re-famous.”
That may be the joke with the longest shelf life.
They stopped one of “The League of Their Own” star’s songs from reaching Kimmel. But just like in the film, you can’t keep a good woman down. She came back with another, got it on television, and turned Trump’s favorite slogan into her closing punchline.
Apparently, you can tell Rosie O’Donnell she cannot sing that song. You just cannot tell her she cannot sing.
