{"id":4322,"date":"2025-08-09T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:14:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:14:29","slug":"rosie-odonnell-eviscerates-donald-trump-in-surprisingly-moving-personal-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/rosie-odonnell-eviscerates-donald-trump-in-surprisingly-moving-personal-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosie O\u2019Donnell eviscerates Donald Trump in surprisingly moving personal show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Comedian Rosie O’Donnell has received high praise for her Edinburgh Fringe performance (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This week, Rosie O\u2019Donnell is taking her Edinburgh Fringe<\/a> audiences on an unexpected journey. There was laughter, tears, and, of course, Donald Trump<\/a> rants: he was called both The Orange Menace and Mango Mussolini.<\/p>\n

But while US actress and comedian Rosie, 63, drew 264 paintings of The Tangerine Twit to vent her frustrations, and moved to Ireland to protect her non-binary, autistic<\/a> child from him \u2013 her show isn\u2019t about Trump.<\/p>\n

(I suspect anyone would have the same urgency to migrate if the President of the United States ranted about you on social media<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

No: Rosie\u2019s show is about everything Trump isn\u2019t. It\u2019s about acceptance over social expectations, love, and laughter.<\/p>\n

Her opening story, describing the moment her mum died when she was a child, was a bold and perhaps erroneous choice for the first five minutes of a stand-up comedy routine.<\/p>\n

\u2018I know what you\u2019re thinking: have I booked the wrong f***ing show?\u2019 Rosie acknowledged into the silence, before promising laughs.<\/p>\n

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O’Donnell recently moved to Ireland to protect her child (Photo by Amanda Edwards\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What ensued was a sentimental life story, with a peppering of amusing anecdotes: the time she fell in love with a straight, married Irish pharmacist, and a lollipop lady who was convinced she was pretending to be famous actress Rosie O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n

There could perhaps have been more belly laughs to cut through the reflections, as the couple next to me was in tears by the closing minutes, moved by an intentionally heartstring-tugging hour.<\/p>\n

But Rosie\u2019s life lessons are worthwhile; \u2018If your kid tells you who they are, you best believe them,\u2019 and \u2018Let chaos sit down beside you.\u2019 Nice.<\/p>\n

So no, it\u2019s not necessarily a giggle a minute. So much so, it\u2019s also hard to call Common Knowledge stand-up comedy \u2013 more of a Ted Talk on Rosie\u2019s life and what she\u2019s learnt.<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump received some heavy blows from O\u2019Donnell (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saying that, though, Rosie has the timing of a seasoned pro and the storytelling knack of a playwright, as she lovingly reflected on and celebrated her autistic child Clay\u2019s quirks with tight anecdotes that had the audience\u2019s shoulders chuckling up and down in unison.<\/p>\n

(Though Rosie needs to remember her child\u2019s pronouns on stage, given she has a whole story about Clay insisting on them).<\/p>\n

She also penned somewhat of a love letter to Ireland \u2013 which she calls her \u2018salvation and refuge\u2019 \u2013 through what I suspect are slightly rose-tinted spectacles. But then again, if the elected president of my home country seemed to have a personal vendetta against me, I\u2019d be looking for romance in a different country, too.<\/p>\n

While Rosie\u2019s show did have laughter, it wasn\u2019t uproarious – but appreciative. Nevertheless, there wasn\u2019t a person in that room yawning, either \u2013 crying, yes, but bored? Absolutely not. <\/p>\n

Rosie took us on an unexpected journey, but a worthwhile one too.<\/p>\n

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