Rosie O’Donnell is considering a return to the United States after celebrating the Democrats’ sweeping gains in the midterm elections.
O’Donnell, a longtime critic of the current administration, moved to Ireland after Donald Trump won the presidency for a second time in 2024.
Although the former talk-show host has embraced her life abroad, she told The Washington Post that she may eventually return to New York. Dublin is “beautiful — we love it here, but my family’s not here,” she said.
“And I miss my grown kids. I miss my grandson that was born six months ago. And I feel like I’ve missed half his life already and don’t want to miss any more,” O’Donnell added.
The “A League of Their Own” star shares four children with her former wife, Kelli Carpenter, and had one child with her late former wife, Michelle Rounds.
O’Donnell also took to TikTok to celebrate the Democratic surge following Tuesday’s midterm vote, in which the party won control of the House while securing a majority in the Senate.
“It’s a beautiful morning in the world,” she said. “The Trump regime is over, thank you America. I knew we would do it; I knew it in my heart.”
“You gotta believe people, and you did, and you showed up. And we gave a very loud and clear message to Trump … and his partners in cruelty. His criminal friends — enough, we’ve had enough.”
O’Donnell said she went to bed early in Dublin as election results continued to come in across the United States.
“I didn’t think I could stay up; I was so anxious,” she said. “I went to bed and at 3 o’clock in the morning — ding, ding, ding, ding — everyone started texting me and I started to cry.”
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“I was so overwhelmed with emotion — overwhelmed — and I got up this morning and I took a shower and I put on my blue jumper … and I’m like, I’m wearing blue today.”
O’Donnell said she was “so proud of all of us, of our country” before condemning what she described as the administration’s “unconstitutional, un-American things” directed at people in the United States and around the world.
“Let the investigations begin, really,” O’Donnell said. “This is a glorious day.”
In a statement to Fox News Digital, the White House responded: “Rosie O’Donnell is a nasty woman and a total slob whose brain has been completely destroyed by Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Earlier this year, O’Donnell finished a guest-hosting stint on the late-night program of fellow Trump critic Jimmy Kimmel, where she referred to the president as “orange Voldemort.”
“I’ve really enjoyed my time here thanks to everyone who’s been watching this week, especially the hungry, hungry hypocrite in the White House,” she said during her final opening monologue.
“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.”
O’Donnell and Trump have exchanged insults for decades. After she moved to Ireland in 2025, Trump threatened to revoke the comedian’s citizenship.
Their long-running feud dates to 2006, when O’Donnell, then a co-host of “The View,” criticized Trump over his decision to show leniency toward a Miss USA winner accused of drug use and other misconduct.
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