Rosie O'Donnell Calls Out Donald Trump

Rosie O'Donnell called Donald Trump "a fraud," following the gargantuan ruling against the former president in his New York civil trial.

Last Friday, Judge Arthur Engoron ordered the former president to pay $355 million in penalties for inflating the value of his assets for years with the goal of getting more favorable terms from banks and insurers.

The judge also banned Trump from serving as an officer or director of any New York company for three years, while his two eldest sons, Eric and Donald Jr., were banned for two years. Trump will not have to pay the fine immediately, as an appeal process will follow Engoron's decision.

Trump lashed out at the ruling, calling the judge "crooked" and describing his decision as politically motivated. As in the other cases against him, Trump denies wrongdoing.

Following the news, frequent Trump critic O'Donnell took to her TikTok account where she touched on the outcome of the Republican's trial.

"Good news in the never-ending unraveling of our former president," O'Donnell said. "$350 million-something he's paying for lying. For lying and over-evaluating. For Fraud. That's what he is, a fraud."

Rounding out her thoughts on Trump, the current frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination who is expected to face off against President Joe Biden again in the November general election, O'Donnell added: "This guy should never have been president, and he never should be again."

Newsweek reached out to a representative of Trump via email for comment.

O'Donnell and Trump have been engaged in a public feud that began in 2006 when the comedian criticized him on ABC's The View, which she co-hosted at the time.

O'Donnell had slammed Trump for not firing Miss USA winner Tara Conner, who admitted to drug use and underage drinking. The Apprentice star later responded by calling O'Donnell "a loser" and "fat."

During a segment on The View, O'Donnell said she didn't "enjoy" Trump, alleged that he was actually bankrupt, and described him as a "snake oil salesman on Little House on the Prairie."

At the time, Trump rebuked her statements, saying she was "a woman out of control."

"You can't make false statements. Rosie will rue the words she said," he added. "I'll most likely sue her for making those false statements—and it'll be fun. Rosie's a loser. A real loser. I look forward to taking lots of money from my nice fat little Rosie."

The pair have taken regular shots at each other over the years.

O'Donnell has called the former president "the dumbest human living" and a "creepy fascist." Trump, who is known for attacking those he disagrees with on a regular basis, has called O'Donnell a "mentally sick woman, a bully, a dummy and, above all, a loser" and someone with "no talent and no persona."

In August 2022, O'Donnell said that people who continue to support Trump are"willfully blind," further branding the one-term president "the worst person to ever hold that office."

"So I think America has come to understand his true essence, and he doesn't have quite the following that he used to, and people have woken up to the illusion of Donald Trump," she said. "Because that's what it was—an illusion created by Mark Burnett on The Celebrity Apprentice that he was somehow some sort of successful businessman, which he never was.

"He got all his money from his dad, who was a slumlord, and his company was mostly logo-slapping, not building."