Former Hollywood actress Rosie O’Donnell may have fled the country for the supposedly greener pastures of Ireland, due purportedly to her disdain for President Donald Trump, but she is not done interfering in American politics.
The notable left-wing pundit, who was once a co-host on the daytime television show “The View,” weighed in on the recent atrocity committed at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and spread a number of falsehoods about the heinous shooting that left two children dead and eighteen people injured.
O’Donnell drew attention this week after posting a TikTok video in which she tied the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting suspect to Republican politics and made a series of accusations about Trump and conservative organizations.
In the video, O’Donnell described the gunman as “a white guy, Republican, MAGA person… whaddya’ know… white supremacist.”
She then shifted her remarks toward Trump and conservative think tanks.
“Haven’t you had enough of Donald Trump? The Heritage Foundation? All their bullshit? He’s their puppet,” O’Donnell said. “But guess what? It’s coming to an end. He’s not doing well. Whether physically, emotionally, or spiritually. Or all of them wrapped up into one. He’s not doing well. He wants to get into heaven. I find that comical.”
O’Donnell accused Trump of routinely lying and suggested he may not allow elections to proceed normally.
“Remember, he lies all the time. He only lies,” she said. “And when he tells on himself, like you’re not gonna need to vote again after this election, believe him. I think he’s not going to allow voting in the midterms.”
Toward the end of her remarks, O’Donnell speculated that Trump may impose martial law in Democratic-led cities, claiming that such a move would be linked to Project 2025, a conservative policy initiative.
“During martial law, we can’t have elections. I think that’s what he’s doing. Project 2025. If you haven’t read it, you should. It’s your duty as an American, I think. And once you have, you should do something,” she said.
Her comments quickly spread online, drawing both support from critics of the former president and backlash from others who accused O’Donnell of spreading misinformation.
Trump allies and conservative commentators pointed out that investigators have not suggested any political link to the Minneapolis shooting, pushing back against O’Donnell’s characterization of the suspect as a “MAGA person.”
The suspect, who took his own life, was a transgender individual who went by the name Robin Westman.
Westman left a video manifesto that made it abundantly clear that the person supported LGBTQ politics, held anti-Christian and anti-Israel beliefs, and scrawled on a weapon “K*ll Donald Trump.”
While the Minnesota law enforcement authorities have not officially released a motive, the attack is being investigated by the Department of Justice as an anti-Christian “hate crime.”
Over the past decade, a number of mass shootings in the United States have involved perpetrators who identified as transgender, non-binary, or gender fluid.
Notable cases include Snochia Moseley, a transgender woman who killed three and injured three in Aberdeen, Maryland, in 2018; Maya (Alec) McKinney, a transgender man who, alongside a co-shooter, killed one student and injured eight at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado in 2019; Anderson Lee Aldrich, who identified as non-binary and killed five while injuring 19 at Club Q in Colorado Springs in 2022; Audrey Hale, a transgender man who fatally shot six people at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2023.