it’s generally accepted that their rivalry took root in 2006, when O’Donnell, then a cast member on
The View, ripped into Trump for a press conference he’d just given about then-Miss USA Tara Conner, who’d been found to have used drugs and alcohol.
In the 5-minute segment, O’Donnell imitated Trump, even flipping her hair into a combover. “He annoys me on a multitude of levels,” she said. “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.”
O’Donnell helped to mainstream a now-popular line of attack against Trump—that he’s not self-made but a product of his father, that he repeatedly bankrupted himself to get out of paying what he owed, that he’s a “snake-oil salesman.”
Trump didn’t take this so well, and has since referred to O’Donnell as “
a woman out of control,” a “
true loser,” a “
total train wreck,”
“disgusting,” a “slob,” “fat, ugly”; he
told Entertainment Tonight in 2006: “Probably I’ll sue her, it’ll be fun. I’d like to take some money out of her fat-ass pockets.” He made similar
threats to
People, saying “I’ll most likely sue her for making those false statements—and it’ll be fun. Rosie’s a loser. A real loser. I look forward to taking lots of money from my nice fat little Rosie.” (He did not.)
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Yeah Rosie is great. It's so true what she says about Donnie Fart
