When Dan Scavino told us that Trump’s next post might break the Internet, he wasn’t exaggerating—he was warning us. And like clockwork, President Donald Trump dropped a Truth Social bomb so sharp-edged it might as well have come wrapped in barbed wire and sarcasm. The target? A familiar one: Rosie O’Donnell.
Trump’s post read:
Incapable of being so! pic.twitter.com/J7CoO5Tow2
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 4, 2025
Cue the meltdown. Cue the trending hashtags. Cue Rosie, of course, who fired back with a Game of Thrones reference (because nothing says reasoned discourse like comparing a president to King Joffrey). “Go ahead and try, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan,” she wrote. “I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
POTUS just may break the internet shortly🤷🏻♂️😬🫠
— Dan Scavino (@Scavino47) September 4, 2025
The feud between Trump and O’Donnell is one of the oldest and most theatrical running subplots in modern American politics—a mixture of reality TV cattiness and political theater. But beneath the noise, there’s something revealing: Trump knows exactly what buttons to push. And Rosie? She keeps pushing back, which only gives him more ammo.
Now, legally, of course, Trump can’t strip Rosie O’Donnell of her citizenship. The 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship, and Rosie was born in New York. Everyone knows this—including Trump. That’s not the point.
The point is the troll.
This is vintage Trump: a mix of showmanship, provocation, and an uncanny sense of timing. While the media hyperventilates over what’s “unconstitutional,” his base is laughing at how easily he baited them into spending 24 hours defending Rosie O’Donnell’s patriotism. Think about that: a president gets the press to run interference for a leftist Hollywood firebrand who fled to Ireland after the 2024 election. That’s power.
🚨 OMG 🤣
Gavin: “I’m not exaggerating when I say I received in the mail a Trump 2028 hat! These guys are not playing around!”
Cue a MAJOR round of meltdowns! pic.twitter.com/TRYG6g4fKu
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 4, 2025
Let’s not forget, O’Donnell has long made her contempt for Trump a central part of her public persona. She once claimed the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, PA, was staged, before being forced to delete her post and apologize. And after Biden’s collapse in 2024, she bolted to Ireland with her daughter, citing the political climate as a reason for leaving.
Trump saw the opportunity. He seized it. And in true Trump fashion, he turned it into a cultural flashpoint that sucks all the oxygen out of the room.
