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Rosie O’Donnell claims Trump has PTSD because of her—and the internet has questions

July 20, 2026 | | Print Article

Rosie O’Donnell has made an interesting claim about President Donald Trump that is getting her a lot of attention.

Speaking to Variety about her decades-long feud with the president, the comedian claimed that she intimidates Trump to the point where he has “a PTSD response” to her.

“What do you think of the recent AI video he made of you? And why do you think he’s so obsessed with you in particular? This is the 20th anniversary of him being obsessed with you. One undressing you gave him on ‘The View’ in 2006, and now you’ve dealt with 20 years of harassment from the guy,” the interviewer asked.

“My theory is — and I don’t know if this is accurate, but it’s my personal opinion — there have been so many comedians who have said things about him, but I am from the same area that he’s from. We both sound alike, and people sometimes say to me, ‘Oh, you sound like Trump,’ which is probably the worst thing that you can say to me, because he sounds like a moron when I hear him speak. He can’t conjugate verbs properly. He can’t say four-syllable words. I don’t understand how people aren’t able to see it! It’s like willful blindness,” O’Donnell ranted. “But I think I’m one of those tough girls from elementary school and junior high that said to him, ‘Shut the hell up! You’re not playing with us. Get out of here, you freakin’ idiot!’ And he never got past it. I think I trigger him like a PTSD response of all his failures in his life as a kid. I mean, he didn’t have a happy home life. His mother has said some pretty horrible things about him. His niece, Mary Trump, talks about how he wasn’t respected in his family, and how poorly he’s treated some of his family members. I think he had a very torturous childhood, and I remind him of the girls who said, ‘You’re nothing,’ and it scares him. That’s just my theory, Marlow.”

She also addressed the “controversy” of Trump asking FIFA to look into the suspension of Team USA’s Folarin Balogun during the World Cup, and her disgust with MAGA for their “constant acceptance” of the president’s behavior.

“Now, this might be something that people think is silly, but the fact that he called up FIFA and had the penalty revoked for the American team, and America was like, ‘Yeah, that’s good! I didn’t think it was a red card anyway!’ Well, you’re not the freakin’ ref! You don’t get to decide! Since when does he get to make and change the rules, the goalposts, whatever metaphor you want to use, and everyone just sits by and shrugs their shoulders? There’s so much corruption that we don’t even notice. It. The fact that that player [Folarin Balogun] did not say, ‘I will not play this game,’ and the fact that the coach of the American team [Mauricio Pochettino] did not say, ‘This is not how we win,’ and everyone was like, ‘Well, whatever…’ I was horrified. I was horrified by the fact that he is able to get away with pretty much everything, and it’s sickening,” she whined.

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