Every four years, with the reliability of a bad sitcom rerun, a parade of Hollywood liberals threatens to flee America if the Republican wins. Barbra Streisand was going to move to Canada. Cher had her bags packed for Jupiter. The promises pile up on election night, and by inauguration day, every last one of them is still comfortably nestled in their Malibu estates, ranting into their phones about fascism.

But one celebrity has taken this tired tradition to a genuinely impressive extreme — transforming what was supposed to be a permanent, principled exile into an endless loop of tearful goodbyes and quiet homecomings. And honestly, it’s getting hard to keep count.

From Breitbart:

Left-wing comedienne Rosie O’Donnell is once again traveling to the U.S.A. from her new home in Ireland despite claiming that she would never again set foot in our country because of President Donald Trump.

O’Donnell infamously pulled up stakes in the U.S. and moved her family to Ireland after Donald Trump was reelected to the presidency in 2024. O’Donnell claimed for years before Trump’s election that the U.S. was no longer her ideal, left-wing, socialist utopia and had threatened to move to Europe. But she didn’t pull the trigger until Trump 2.0 when she quietly left early in 2025 and said that she would never look back.

Rosie O’Donnell calls Trump a “psychopath” as she returns to America despite previously ‘fleeing’ to Ireland.

“He is a con man, he is a narcissist and he is a psychopath.” pic.twitter.com/8rXKsreZ1e

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 7, 2026

Well. “Never” apparently has a rather generous return policy.

O’Donnell first sneaked back into the country in January, claiming she wanted to “see if it was safe.” Safe. As though she were scouting a combat zone and not stepping off a plane in the most prosperous nation on the planet. Then she came back in April for two weeks. Now she’s announced she’ll be spending the entire summer in New York City, where she plans to stage a show in late July.

Let’s do the math. She promised to leave forever. She lasted less than a year before her first return. Barely eighteen months into her so-called exile, she’s settling in for a full summer. At this rate, she’ll have a new apartment by Christmas.

Follow the money

This is the part that deserves your attention. O’Donnell isn’t returning because she’s had some patriotic awakening. She’s coming back to work. She’s coming back to perform. American audiences spend American dollars, and those are apparently still good enough for Rosie — even if the country that prints them isn’t.

She told her TikTok followers last year, “When it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.” Bold words from a woman currently planning her summer residency in Manhattan. I guess it got safe fast.

And she’s not exactly booking gigs in Dublin, is she?

Red carpet rage

O’Donnell couldn’t even make it through the Tony Awards red carpet Sunday night without detonating. Asked about President Trump, she unloaded on Variety: “If you grew up in New York, you knew he was an a**hole and a liar from day one.” She went on to call him “a conman,” “a narcissist,” and “a psychopath.”

Consider the source for a moment. This is the same woman whose own therapist reportedly told her that her Trump obsession was extremely unhealthy. She admitted she couldn’t even go two hours without erupting over the president. Two hours. That’s barely a long lunch. Maybe diagnosing other people as psychopaths should wait until your own mental health professional stops waving the white flag.

Trump himself seems more entertained than threatened. He posted an AI-generated image on Truth Social depicting O’Donnell thinking about him while engaged in everyday activities. The caption: “She (?) is OBSESSED.” Hard to argue with that assessment.

And then there’s the darker edge. Just last month, O’Donnell was seen publicly fantasizing about President Trump’s death. That’s not political commentary. That’s something else entirely.

The real lesson

Strip away the theatrics and the red carpet tantrums, and the story here is simple. Rosie O’Donnell keeps proving what conservatives have understood all along — America under President Trump is a country so dynamic and so free that even its most vocal detractors cannot bring themselves to stay away.

Every return flight she books is a quiet concession that her grand protest was never about principle. It was a performance. And like all her shows, this one was destined to close early.

Welcome back, Rosie. Again.

Key Takeaways

• O’Donnell has returned to America three times after vowing never to come back under Trump.
• Her summer-long stay includes a paid New York City show — so much for principled exile.
• Her unhinged Tony Awards tirade reveals personal obsession, not political conviction.
• Even her loudest protests prove that Trump’s America remains impossible to resist.

Sources: Breitbart, TV Insider