Comedian and former talk show host Rosie O'Donnell has responded to Donald Trump's latest social media attack featuring a deepfake AI rendering of her, stating that the president is "quite ill — and getting worse daily." This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing The Guardian.
In an interview with The Guardian, O'Donnell said: "He's quite ill – and getting worse daily. The 25th amendment exists for exactly this reason. Remove. Impeach. Convict."
Trump's post, shared by an official White House account, includes AI-generated testimonials from O'Donnell and five other Hollywood critics — John Leguizamo, Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Norton, Robert De Niro, and Julia Roberts — praising an AI rendering of Trump depicted as a doctor. The video shows O'Donnell supposedly confessing to suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
Trump first attacked O'Donnell during the first Republican primary debate in 2015. In response, she shared a YouTube clip from a 2006 episode of The View where she mocked Trump. O'Donnell said nearly a decade later that Trump "can't seem to get over" the clip.
In the clip, O'Donnell ridiculed Trump for holding a press conference to announce he would not strip the Miss USA title from a young woman caught drinking and using drugs at a nightclub. Imitating Trump, she said: "He annoys me on a multitude of levels. He's the moral authority: left the first wife, had an affair, left the second wife, had an affair, had kids both times, but he's the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America."
She then criticized Trump for inheriting wealth from his father and using bankruptcy laws to avoid paying creditors. "This is not a self-made man," she said. "I just think that this man is like sort of one of those, you know, snake-oil salesmen," she added.
Two decades later, as president of the United States, Trump posted the video attacking O'Donnell from the White House on Wednesday night at seven minutes to midnight.