Although Rosie O’Donnell’s late-night hosting run has come to an end, she graced her biggest fan with a song in his honor.
On Friday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, the 12x Emmy-winning guest host let longtime foe Donald Trump have it in the opening monologue, which she ended with a song roasting the twice-impeached POTUS, who previously called her a “nasty woman” this week.
“Welcome to Jimmy Kimmel Live. I am your guest host, ‘Nasty’ Rosie O’Donnell,” she began in the monologue.
O’Donnell was referencing White House spokesperson Davis Ingle’s statement in response to her joke about Trump’s relationship with White House aide Natalie Harp. “Rosie O’Donnell is a nasty woman and a total slob whose brain has been completely destroyed by Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Ingle said.
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As O’Donnell marked the end of her four-night hosting stint on the ABC late-night talk show, she added, “But I’ve really enjoyed my time here, thanks to everyone who’s been watching here this week, especially the hungry, hungry hypocrite in the White House. Kinda weird to think he spent more nights with me this week than Melania. True fact.
“Most of all, I’d like to thank Jimmy Kimmel for inviting me to do this and for reminding everyone that we have the right to free speech in this country, whether orange Voldemort likes it or not,” she said to roaring applause.
Having previously teased a “love song” she wrote for Trump, O’Donnell finally serenaded the audience. “I would like to close my final monologue here with a traditional Irish song, dedicated to a very special boy,” she prefaced before launching into her version of “Danny Boy”.
“Oh, Donny boy. It’s Rosie, Rosie calling / from Hollywood, the Jimmy Kimmel Show / Drop that Big Mac that we all know you’re holding / Because my dear, I worry for you so / Poor Donny boy, your polls, your polls are falling / Your Reflecting Pool is green as Mountain Dew / Your wig’s a mess, your ballroom is appalling / And with Iran, you bit off more than you can chew.”
After another verse of jabs, O’Donnell finished the tune, “But there’s a way to end this drama. It’s time to use that stable genius brain. Since we all know you’ll never be Obama, why not resign and make this country great again?”
In June, Kimmel announced O’Donnell as one of his talk show’s summer guest hosts, along with a lineup including Tiffany Haddish, Anthony Anderson, Ike Barinholtz, Colman Domingo, Jelly Roll and Matt Damon.
