Rosie O'Donnell told CNN anchor Jake Tapper what she expects to happen to President Donald Trump during a live interview on July 10, 2026. (CNN/Screenshot)
Rosie O'Donnell, actress and longtime enemy of President Donald Trump, said on Friday that she doesn't expect he will make it to the end of his term.
The Hollywood legend was promoting her one-woman off-Broadway show "Common Knowledge" when CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked if she planned to return to the United States after Trump leaves office in 2029. O'Donnell has cited Trump, who has criticized and attacked her for more than two decades, as the reason she relocated to Ireland with her 12-year-old non-binary child, and that she had sought to protect her mental health.
O'Donnell had a pointed response to Tapper's question.
"I don't think, Jake, that he is going to survive that long," she said. "All the medical doctors that you can get accurate opinions of what's happening to him, because his demise is visible and apparent to everyone who is not willfully blind. I mean, he called Zelenskyy Putin. He makes the kind of mistakes that you would forgive at Thanksgiving dinner, but you would never let grandpa cut the turkey because it might be dangerous."
She and Tapper named multiple gaffes, including his most recent error referring to the "Islamic Republic of Japan."
"I know there are millions of Americans who have lived through parents and loved ones going through exactly what he's going through," O'Donnell added. "And everyone just sits around and goes, 'Oh, do you know? And I don't understand it.' I think my displeasure with the Democratic Party's attack of him and the urgency by which they need to break the glass in case of emergency — it is an emergency. It's not like fascism might come here. Fascism has already arrived."
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