DeGeneres backs O’Donnell in Trump feud

Ellen DeGeneres knows the enemy of her enemy is her friend The talk show host has avoided the spotlight since her long-running talk show petered out amid a workplace shame She stuck her neck out on Sunday for an unlikely ally fellow former chat show head Rosie O Donnell DeGeneres and O Donnell have a strained history that goes back decades but she backed her daytime compatriot in her ongoing tiff with President Donald Trump on Sunday Good for you she wrote on Instagram alongside screenshots of the latest back-and-forth between Trump and O Donnell Related Donald Trump loves the Irish Do they really have a choice The president s animus toward O Donnell also stretches back decades He not long ago threatened to revoke O Donnell s U S citizenship Because of the fact that Rosie O Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship Trump wrote on Truth Social over the weekend She is a Threat to Humanity and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland if they want her GOD BLESS AMERICA O Donnell who right now lives in Ireland responded with a photo of Trump with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours she wrote You call me a threat to humanity but I m everything you fear a loud woman a queer woman a mother who tells the truth an American who got out of the country b u set it ablaze DeGeneres and O Donnell s feud has rarely spilled over into society snarking and social media clapbacks In a newest interview with Us Weekly O Donnell declared she was loathe to speak ill of another gay comedian Still O Donnell readily admits that there have been tensions We have had various stuff in the past that we never resolved And not in any way as as partners or lovers or anything like that just as friends and comedians but I wish her the best she disclosed I seriously do I think that there s enough room in the world for all of the gay comedians Read more about Ellen DeGeneres Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi have ditched the US for rural UK after referendum source says No one cares anymore about cancel beliefs but it is a heckuva marketing tool for chosen comics Third read more article The post DeGeneres backs O Donnell in Trump feud appeared first on Salon com