August 09 2025, 08:15 
Lesbian comedienne Rosie O’Donnell is worried that President Donald Trump and his “dictatorship” will try to cancel the all-female daytime talk show The View because of its co-hosts’ criticisms against him. While O’Donnell, a previous co-host on the show who now lives in Ireland, promised to continue speaking out against Trump, a White House spokesperson bitterly responded, “Our country is better off with Rosie living abroad.”
In a post on the video-sharing platform TikTok, O’Donnell wrote, “You know what I just read today? ABC is ‘reviewing the liberal bias’ on The View. The VIEW. The show with five women speaking the own opinions – That’s the threat now.” Her use of the word threat echoes Trump calling O’Donnell “a threat to humanity” when he threatened to revoke her U.S. citizenship last month (something he can’t actually do).
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“They say they’re not canceling it— they’re just ‘reviewing the bias.’ Which is code for – we’re gonna cancel it we’re just trying to soften you up first,” O’Donnell continued. “Because it’s not enough to run the country into the ground. You have to control what people SEE What they HEAR What they think.”
“And The View? Well, that’s a little too much woman - a little too much truth,” she added. “They say they want ‘balance.’ But what they mean is silence. Silence anything that doesn’t praise the orange messiah and his golden escalator of lies.”
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The most dangerous sound in the world is a woman who knows what she’s talking about— and refuses to stop.”
Lesbian comedienne, Rosie O’Donnell
“Don’t tell me The View is some radical leftist threat,” she wrote, noting that one of the show’s current co-hosts, Joy Behar, criticized Trump for claiming that his supporters at the January 6 Capitol Riots looked like a “normal tourist visit.” (During the “normal tourist visit,” five people died, roughly 140 police officers were injured, rioters broke windows, smeared feces in the Capitol hallways, and stole computer equipment causing a national security breach.)
“This isn’t just about a TV show. It’s about what happens when powerful men decide they’ve heard enough from women…. When they label truth as bias, and disagreement as danger, and they start scrubbing the airwaves of anyone who makes them uncomfortable.”
“History has shown us— over and over and over— that when women stop speaking, things fall apart,” she wrote. So no— we do not get quieter. We do not make ourselves smaller, so they can feel more comfortable. We speak louder. We take up space. We stand together and say what is true, even when it shakes the walls. Because the most dangerous sound in the world is a woman who knows what she’s talking about— and refuses to stop.”
Trump’s White House Spokesperson Taylor Rogers responded to O’Donnell’s post. Rogers’ statement to Variety said, “Rosie O’Donnell and ‘Joyless’ Behar are irrelevant losers with too much time on their hands, whining about a failing talk show while everyday Americans are working hard. Our country is better off with Rosie living abroad — and we can all hope ‘Joyless’ Behar will join her next!”
O’Donnell isn’t the first lesbian TV to warn others about the Trump dictatorship. Earlier this week, lesbian MSNBC news host Rachel Maddow warned viewers, “We now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge.”
To back up her point, Maddow pointed to the Trump administration’s use of non-uniformed ICE agents to forcibly kidnap and deport people to torture camps without any due process and his use of extortionary tactics to silence any critics (including business heads, federal government officials, and military leaders).
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