Comedian Rosie O’Donnell revealed she wrote an apology letter to Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin after her name came up during his meeting with President Donald Trump in the White House.
O’Donnell, 63, moved to Ireland after Trump was reelected as president. The two have famously feuded for years.
During Martin’s trip to the White House on March 12, he received a question about O’Donnell from Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend, Brian Glenn.
“Ireland is known for a very happy, fun-loving people,” Glenn said. “Why in the world would you let Rosie O’Donnell move to Ireland? I think she is going to lower your happiness levels!”
The Irish leader, known as the taoiseach, largely ignored the question, but it apparently bothered O’Donnell.
“I felt very troubled that they put the taoiseach in that position and didn’t treat him with the respect that a leader of that kind deserves when they’re visiting the White House,” O’Donnell said Friday night on an Irish TV show, “The Late Late Show” with Patrick Kielty.
O’Donnell said she wrote an apology note to Martin’s office, which the office received and thanked her for.
“I just wanted him to know the history and what happened and why (Trump) seems to be out to get me in ways that are startling to most,” O’Donnell told Kielty.
Trump has been ripping O’Donnell for decades. Even back in 2007, he made a crack about her weight while selling chairs.
“Someone asked me how Rosie O’Donnell would like these chairs. They’re not strong enough,” Trump said. “We’d have to have made them stronger.”
During a 2016 presidential debate, when moderator Megyn Kelly pointed out that Trump had called women “pigs, dogs, slobs,” he interjected to say, “Only Rosie O’Donnell.”
