Rosie O’Donnell has made a career out of attacking President Donald Trump and his supporters.
The washed-up comedian thought she could get away with her latest smear campaign.
But Rosie O’Donnell got caught in one lie about Trump supporters that forced her to do something she never does.
Rosie O’Donnell spreads vicious lie about Minneapolis shooting
Two children died and eighteen people were wounded when a gunman opened fire at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis last Wednesday before killing himself.
Rosie O’Donnell – who moved to Ireland in January following Trump’s electoral victory – rushed to social media within hours to spread false claims about the attack.
Without waiting for any facts to emerge, O’Donnell claimed that 23-year-old shooter Robin Westman "was a white guy, Republican, MAGA person."
"What do you know? White supremacists," she sneered in the now-deleted video.
But reality told a completely different story.
Police found that Westman had written death threats against President Trump on gun magazines, alongside vicious attacks on Christians, black people, Hispanic people, Jews, and Israel.
In other words, the shooter was the exact opposite of what O’Donnell claimed – he was an anti-Trump extremist who wanted the President dead.
The truth forces Rosie to do something she never does
After getting hammered with backlash for spreading lies, O’Donnell did something almost unprecedented for her – she apologized.
In a follow-up video, the comedian admitted she "did not do" her "due diligence" before making what she called an "emotional statement."
"I said things about the shooter that were incorrect," she conceded.
O’Donnell claimed she had assumed the killer fit what she described as the "standard M-O" of "NRA-loving kind of gun people."
She wrapped up her mea culpa by saying, "Anyway, the truth is I messed up, and when you mess up, you ‘fess up. I’m sorry. This is my apology video and I hope it’s enough."
In her TikTok caption, she wrote: "my apologies to maga for saying the school shooter was one of u – that is incorrect – i made a mistake – i didn’t research – im sorry."¹
What this really tells us about the Left’s playbook
Look, here’s what’s actually happening – and it’s far more calculated than O’Donnell’s fake "emotional" excuse suggests.
The Left has one move when tragedy strikes: immediately blame Trump supporters before any facts come out.
They’ve been running this same con for years, and O’Donnell just got sloppy enough to get caught red-handed.
She talks about the "standard M-O" like she’s some kind of criminal profiler, but what she really means is "I automatically blame MAGA for everything because that’s what gets likes on social media."
The timing here isn’t coincidental either.
O’Donnell posted this garbage within 24 hours of the shooting, before investigators had released any real information about the shooter’s motives.
She didn’t wait for facts – she saw an opportunity to attack Trump supporters and took it.
And here’s the part that should make you furious: this wasn’t some innocent mistake.
This was deliberate character assassination of 75 million Americans based on nothing but her own twisted prejudices.
The real story isn’t that O’Donnell got the facts wrong – it’s that she reveals how the celebrity Left thinks about ordinary Americans who support Trump.
They see us as violent extremists by default, regardless of evidence.
They’re so consumed with hatred for Trump that they’ll use dead children as props in their political theater.
O’Donnell’s "apology" doesn’t erase the fact that her first instinct was to lie about grieving families and exploit a tragedy for political points.
This is the same playbook they use every single time – blame conservatives first, ask questions never, then offer a half-hearted "oops" when they get exposed.
The difference this time is that the facts came out so quickly that even O’Donnell couldn’t pretend she was right.
But make no mistake – if investigators hadn’t revealed the shooter’s anti-Trump writings, she would have stuck with her lie indefinitely.
That’s how these people operate, and that’s why nobody should take her forced apology seriously.
¹ Rosie O’Donnell, TikTok post, August 31, 2025.
