Rosie O’Donnell told author Marianne Williamson she believes President Donald Trump could manufacture a crisis to justify canceling the midterm elections, as she and Williamson expressed fears the vote may be rigged. O’Donnell also reiterated why she moved to
For Rosie O’Donnell, the danger isn’t just the word “rigged.” It’s the idea that President Donald Trump could create a moment so severe that Americans would be told the midterm elections can’t happen.
Speaking to author Marianne Williamson on Wednesday. June 17. O’Donnell said she believes the president has no intention of letting the vote take place. She described a scenario where Trump would “manufacture a crisis” as justification to cancel the midterms. Both women said they were concerned the elections will be “rigged.”.
O’Donnell’s warning went further than election manipulation. In her conversation with Williamson, she argued that the threat would be bigger than rigging a vote. “Not only a rigging. but I think he will have some sort of crisis. whether it’s an assassination attempt or a terrorist bombing. ” she said. She added that she expects a “catastrophic event,” followed by a claim that there will be no elections.
That prediction was tied, in part, to what O’Donnell said she believes is spelled out in “Project 2025.” “Because if you read Project 2025, you would have not believed that they wrote down exactly what they’ve done to our country — and America didn’t notice,” she continued.
She also delivered a sharper warning about what she thinks the administration is capable of. O’Donnell said Americans should not underestimate the stakes. pointing to actions she referenced as already having reduced rights and tested limits. “If you don’t think that they would take away our right to vote when they’ve already done the Voters Rights Act. when they’ve already set up concentration camps. we are past the precipice. America. ” she said. “And everyone needs to believe still, believe — hope is the last thing to die, people.”.
Even with those fears, she said she remains optimistic about the Democratic Party’s recent momentum. “We have to believe. I am very thrilled for how the Democrats now seem to be doing — but if I read one more text from a senator saying what he did and not doing anything about it — ‘Well. they can’t. Rosie. because they’re the minority.’ You know what?. There were many minority groups that stood their ground and saved our nation before,” she continued.
Her warning comes against the backdrop of a feud with Trump that has stretched for two decades. O’Donnell and Trump have been at each other’s throats for 20 years. with the back-and-forth beginning in 2006 when O’Donnell questioned Trump on his businesses and bankruptcies during her time as a cohost on The View. Trump responded on The Insider by calling her “disgusting. both inside and out.” He also said. “Probably I’ll sue her because it would be fun. I’d like to take some money out of her fat-a** pockets,” adding threats he never followed through on.
That history resurfaced again in the way O’Donnell explained her own recent move. She relocated to Ireland in January 2025, saying the reason was Trump’s return to the White House.
O’Donnell said the decision came down to protecting her “sanity.” “That was my choice in order to keep my family and my sanity safe. in order to not have the constant abuse from him infiltrate my day with my children out at CVS. ” she said. She described the stress she feels as something that has built over time. “I don’t want to have the stress and anxiety associated with the constant barrage of him. It sounds like a PTSD response from me, to tell you the God’s honest truth. It’s 20 years!”.
Trump, for his part, didn’t let the move pass quietly. After O’Donnell moved to Ireland. Trump took a jab at her following a meeting with Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheál Martin. During the meeting. a reporter asked whether O’Donnell might lower Ireland’s “happiness level.” Trump responded. “I like that question. ” then asked Martin if he knew O’Donnell. “You’re better off not knowing,” the president quipped.
For O’Donnell, though, the focus now is not on jokes or the long feud—she’s laying out what she believes could be the next attempt to stop voters from casting ballots in November’s midterms, and she’s urging Americans to hold on to hope while they watch what comes next.
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