Rosie O’Donnell Shines in ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Hosting Debut, Attacks ‘Mango Mussolini’ Trump and Gives Moving Hayden Panettiere Tribute

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When Jimmy Kimmel announced that Rosie O’Donnell would be filling in as a week-long guest host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” during his summer vacation, he teased it would be “a special treat” for Donald Trump, who’s harbored a 20-year-long vendetta against the comic for her mocking his bankruptcies on “The View” back in 2006.

O’Donnell told Variety she was “surprised” by the guest-hosting offer from Kimmel, given the pair’s “adversarial relationship” and the fact that she’d never even been asked on as a guest, but she was “thankful” and accepted nevertheless, owing in large part to her support of Kimmel during Trump’s relentless campaign to get his late-night show canceled over jokes he didn’t like.

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