Rosie O’Donnell ‘Horrified’ by Trump’s World Cup Intervention and AI Video of Her: ‘A Failure at Everything He’s Ever Tried’

The comedy icon didn’t hold back when speaking with Variety about the powerful man who’s held a 20-year grudge against her.

By Marlow Stern

Marlow Stern

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Donald Trump’s long-time nemesis, Rosie O’Donnell, can’t believe the crap he just pulled at the World Cup.

For the blissfully unaware, Trump, who is president of one of the host nations at this year’s World Cup, personally lobbied FIFA President Gianni Infantino to rescind a red card for Folarin Balogun that would have kept America’s best player out of their round of 16 knockout match against Belgium. The red card was excessive, to be sure, but Trump’s meddling — resulting in the first time a red card ruling had been reversed since 1962 — reeked of corruption to the rest of the world, and cast a pall over the U.S. men’s national team’s tournament run. It certainly didn’t help that Infantino had gifted Trump FIFA’s inaugural Peace Prize late last year to curry favor with the strongman.

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