Rosie O'Donnell Says Wynonna Judd Is the Only Trump Supporter She Still Talks To

Rosie O'Donnell has named country music star Wynonna Judd as the only Trump supporter she still speaks to — a friendship she said she extends with open eyes and, in her words, a lot of grace.

Speaking on The Tangle podcast, O'Donnell said she has known Judd for "many, many years" and loves her "very much," according to Entertainment Weekly. Judd, the Grammy-winning country singer who rose to fame in the 1980s as half of the mother-daughter duo The Judds, is a supporter of Donald Trump — a political alignment that has put her on the opposite side of one of the entertainer's most public and long-running feuds.

O'Donnell and Trump have clashed for years, a rivalry that stretches back to her time as a co-host on The View. She described Trump's "misogyny, his racism, his homophobia" as reasons she cannot understand why people support him, Variety reported on 14 August 2026.

So why does Judd get a pass? O'Donnell pointed to the singer's difficult upbringing and the suicide of her mother, Naomi Judd, in 2022. That context, O'Donnell said, is why she gives Judd grace rather than cutting ties. She did not elaborate on whether the two discuss politics directly.

The podcast appearance came as O'Donnell promotes two projects: her one-woman Off Broadway show Common Knowledge, and a guest hosting stint on Jimmy Kimmel Live set to begin Monday. She relocated to Ireland after Trump's re-election in 2024 and said on the podcast that she will not return to the United States before the Trump administration is finished and held accountable, Variety reported.

Trump, for his part, has continued to mock O'Donnell publicly. He posted an AI-generated video on Truth Social lampooning her alongside other high-profile detractors including Whoopi Goldberg and Robert De Niro, Variety reported.

O'Donnell said she has not received any physical threats from Trump's supporters. Online hostility from MAGA backers — the Make America Great Again movement — does not get under her skin, she said. "I don't take it to heart" was how she characterised the mean comments that come her way online.

The Tangle, founded by Isaac Saul, publishes a daily newsletter and a weekly podcast called Suspension of the Rules, according to its website. O'Donnell's appearance brought her political and personal life into one conversation, framed by her return to late-night television and her stage work in New York.

For O'Donnell, the friendship with Judd sits at a crossing point between decades of personal history and a political divide she has called unbridgeable. She has drawn her line. Judd, for now, is the one person standing on the other side of it who still gets a phone call.