Rosie O’Donnell: Trump ‘using me as a punchline’ for so long feels like having PTSD

Rosie O’Donnell says that she’s beginning to “reclaim” herself after being traumatized by President Trump using her “as a punchline” for decades.

“I am softer I think as a result of being there, of the welcome that we got [in Ireland], and as a result of me not being constantly bombarded by news about the current president,” O’Donnell told People magazine in an interview published Wednesday. The 64-year-old comedian and frequent critic of the president moved to Ireland last year because of what she described at the time as a “heartbreaking” political situation in the United States.

“It’s like a post-traumatic stress disorder for me, considering it’s been 20 years of him using me as a punchline, and so I think that has allowed me to reclaim myself, who I was before all that went down, even though it’s very strange to have supposedly the most powerful man........

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