Rosie O'Donnell celebrates Donald Trump conviction after longtime feud: 'Criminal cult'
Trump's vicious attacks on O'Donnell have long played out in public, with the former "View" host celebrating his recent conviction on 34 felony counts.
Legendary former View cohost Rosie O'Donnell got the last laugh amid her years-long feud with Donald Trump, as the actress, comedian, and Emmy-winning talk show veteran publicly celebrated the former president's historic conviction on 34 felony counts.
O'Donnell shared multiple memes and enthusiastic words Thursday night, hours after Trump was found guilty on all counts at the end of a lengthy trial involving an elaborate scheme to fraudulently influence the 2016 presidential election via hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels after having a sexual relationship with her.
"Thank u michael cohen - for turning away from the criminal cult - for taking responsibility for ur actions - for telling the truth," read O'Donnell's first of several Instagram posts on the matter, in which she praised Cohen, who stood against Trump in the trial after working as his legal "fixer" from 2006 to 2018.
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Donald Trump and Rosie O'DonnellO'Donnell previously appeared on Cohen's controversial TikTok page throughout the legal proceedings, and praised him for, as she said, making a "full turnaround in terms of telling the truth" in the case.
Later on Thursday, O'Donnell also shared a meme of Sesame Street character Count von Count, which she captioned: "AMEN - count them all - 34 counts."
The 62-year-old accompanied her grid posts with a slew of anti-Trump imagery on her Instagram Story, including a meme that shows an edited still from The Silence of the Lambs featuring Hillary Clinton's smiling face over Jodie Foster's body, as she peers into a jail cell hosting an image of Trump's face imposed over Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter.
Trump is set to be sentenced on July 11, with the development also drawing harsh criticism from the likes of comedian Kathy Griffin and Trump's former communications staffer (and current View cohost) Alyssa Farah Griffin.
O'Donnell's posts also included images of Robert De Niro, one of the entertainment industry's most vocal Trump critics who recently narrated an anti-Trump ad for the Joe Biden campaign in addition to speaking outside Trump's Manhattan courtroom after going on a profanity-laden tirade about Trump on an earlier broadcast of The View.
"I used to see these things, I didn't understand how he and Rosie O'Donnell used to get into it," De Niro said at the Hot Topics table, referencing Trump and O'Donnell's intense feud that mostly played out in the media as far back as 2006. "I see what a hateful, mean-spirited, awful thing he is. He's vicious."
Trump even continued his feud with O'Donnell well into his first election cycle, when he brought up the performer's name as he answered a 2015 debate question from conservative broadcaster Megyn Kelly, who began to ask him about disparaging women he didn't like using phrases like "fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals." Trump cut her off, quipping: "Only Rosie O'Donnell."
In an April interview with fired CNN journalist Chris Cuomo on his NewsNation program, O'Donnell made a $10,000 bet with Bill O'Reilly over the outcome of the trial, and leaned into her criticisms of the former Apprentice host.
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"He's a cruel, criminal, and mentally unstable man," O'Donnell told Cuomo at the time. "I think he's the worst thing that ever happened to the United States. His cruelty knows no bounds. When he's upset and humiliated and embarrassed, he has no control and he goes apes---."
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for O'Donnell and O'Reilly for comment.
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