Joan and Melissa LOVE Rosie O'Donnell! Since Rosie's taken over Meredith Vierra's host spot on The View, it's been so enjoyable. She single-handedly has turned a virtually unwatchable bitchfest into the hottest ticket on daytime TV. It's all anyone can talk about these days...
In her short time as the head host of the gal panel, Rosie's managed to piss off quite a few people -- hell, entire groups of people. She's not choosy either. She doesn't care if you're Joe Schmo or Donald Trump...
Speaking of...
Naturally you've heard about the skank Mis USA Tara Connor, who apparently is such a party animal everyone but the judges of the beauty pageant knew about it. Her escapades made recent news and the questions was: Will she be stripped of her title and crown? That, was up to the pageant owner, the Donald. In his sanctimonious fashion, Donald held a press conference declaring that everyone deserves a 'second chance' -- good soul that he is, he saved Tara from ruin by letting her keep her title. (I'm sure he wants a little sumptin' sumptin' in return for the grand gesture.)
Well, when Rosie got wind of the Donald's display of good-natured generosity she saw right through his charade...and let it all hang out on The View. She basically called him on being full of shit and that someone with his personal life shouldn't be the barometer for moral judgement. Totally agreed. She went into a fabulously funny imitation, combing her hair over a la the Donald's famous do. "He inherited a lot of money," she said. "Wait a minute, and he's been bankrupt so many times where he didn't have to pay. ... I just think that this man is sort of like one of those, you know, snake oil salesmen in 'Little House on the Prairie."' [hollywood reporter] It gets realllllly ugly now, buckle up:
O'Donnell said Wednesday that Trump's news conference with Miss USA Tara Conner annoyed her "on a multitude of levels." "Left the first wife, had an affair, left the second wife, had an affair," she said. "Had kids both times, but he's the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America." Trump responded: "Rosie O'Donnell is disgusting, I mean both inside and out," [abc]In an interview with the Fox News Channel, Trump ridiculed O'Donnell's looks and said, "I'm going to surprise Rosie, but I guarantee I'll have a lot of Rosie's money, you know, right out of her big, fat pocket. "Rosie talks about moral compass, what moral compass does she have? I mean just take a look at her, take a look at that face. I mean, can you imagine her poor girlfriend having to kiss that every night? You can have her." [reuters]
"Maybe she wanted to put the crown back on Miss USA's head," the real-estate mogul said of the openly gay O'Donnell, who has four children with her partner, Kelli. "I think she's very attracted to Miss USA so she probably wanted to put the crown on her head herself." Insult No. 2: "She is a very, very unattractive woman who really is a bully." Insult No. 3: "Ultimately, Rosie is a loser, and ultimately ("The View") will fail because of Rosie. ... Barbara (Walters) made a mistake and let me tell you something, Barbara's a good friend of mine. She cannot stand Rosie O'Donnell." [hollywood reporter]
Anyhow... they left off with Donald wanting to sue Rosie over the bankruptcy charge: Trump fired back later Wednesday in a TV interview, calling O'Donnell a "slob," among other insults. "I never went bankrupt, but she said I went bankrupt. So probably I'll sue her because it would be fun. [Hollywood reporter] and Rosie firing back on her blog:
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Posted by ro on December 20th at 8:43pmBankruptcy
By 1990, the effects of recession left him unable to meet loan payments. Although he shored up his businesses with additional loans and postponed interest payments, increasing debt brought Trump to business bankruptcy and the brink of personal bankruptcy. Banks and bond holders had lost hundreds of millions of dollars, but opted to restructure his debt to avoid the risk of losing more money in court. Things were so bleak for Trump at this time that in the August 21, 1990 edition of the Jersey Record, columnist Mike Kelly wrote “If we still had debtors’ prisons, Trump would be in the dungeon.†Kelly added that “Donald Trump is a Third World Nation.†Also in 1990, he co-produced the game show Trump Card in syndication.
By 1994, Trump had eliminated a large portion of his $900 million personal debt and reduced significantly his nearly $3.5 billion in business debt. While he was forced to relinquish the Trump Shuttle (which he had bought in 1989), he managed to retain Trump Tower in New York City and control of his three casinos in Atlantic City. Chase Manhattan Bank, (which lent Trump the money he needed to buy the West Side yards, his biggest Manhattan parcel) forced a sale of the parcel to Asian developers. According to former members of the Trump Organization, Trump did not retain any ownership of the site’s real estate - the owners merely promised to give him about 30 percent of the profits once the site was completely developed or sold. Until that time, the owners wanted to keep Trump on to do what he did best: building things. They gave him a modest construction fee and a management fee to oversee the development. The new owners also allowed him to put his name on the buildings that eventually rose on the yards because his well-known moniker allowed them to charge a premium for their condos.
In 1995, he combined his casino holdings into the publicly held Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts. Wall Street drove its stock above $35 in 1996, but by 1998 it had fallen into single digits as the company remained profitless and struggled to pay just the interest on its nearly $2 billion in debt. Under such financial pressure, the properties were unable to make the improvements necessary for keeping up with their flashier competitors.
In 1999, Donald’s father Fred Trump, a multi-billion dollar real estate mogul, died. Fred Trump, the same man who cosigned Donald’s first business loans, also happened to be the man who enabled Donald to escape from the massive financial morass he had created over the decades. Creditors who got stuck with the past losses were not as fortunate. Whereas Donald walked away from his empire unscathed, others were forced to take catastrophic writeoffs and losses even up to 2004, when Trump refused to continue to back his casino. Although Trump boasted he would build a bigger empire than his father, in the end, his father built an empire so large it could even accommodate Donald’s most lavish personal losses.
Problems loomed for Trump’s casino resorts. In a May 28, 2004 Wall Street Journal article, Trump said the spectre of bankruptcy bothered him “from a psychological standpoint,†but added, “it really wouldn’t matter that much.†A number of his bondholders disagreed. In the same article, “Meyer Marvald, a Florida retiree who says he owns about $44,000 of the bonds,†said Trump “has the Sword of Damocles hanging over our heads.†On October 21, 2004, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts announced a restructuring of its debt. The plan called for Trump’s individual ownership to be reduced from 56 percent to 27 percent, with bondholders receiving stock in exchange for surrendering part of the debt. Since then, Trump Hotels has been forced to seek voluntary bankruptcy protection to stay afloat. As a result of his company filing for Chapter 11 Protection, in May of 2005 Trump relinquished his CEO position.loving the wiki
i use it
do ui will let u know if the donald sues me
or if kelli leaves me for one of his pals
dont u find him charming
People are starting to think the two of them got together and planned this feud... and you know what... we believe it. ;)
Stay tuned... this can only get better.
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I was seriously starting to think that this was a planned fight for the media attention. But I have to say, Donald stooped a lot lower than Rosie, she stated known facts about his life, he got rude and personal about her looks...with bullies that usually means they have no ammo.
-Karen
i think she made it personal first! he's not a moral gauge in out society, he was in charge of the miss america pageant and had to make a decision, he decided to not be as judgemental as others would've been of her decisions...
i can't stand either one of them but to go on national tv and start talking about a man's private family matters, even if those matters are public knowledge, is despicable.
johnny
yes--I agree with Johnny. Rosie is sucha huge hypocrite! She feels it's okay to insult everyone, from Kelly Ripa to the entire CHinese-speaking population to Donald Trump, yet when somneone rips on her, she gets upset? Give me a break. Donald owns the Miss Univers pagaent--it's his job to decide what to do with Miss Crackhead USA. No one except Rosie is concerned with his morals, or lack thereof, so why did she even lash out at his personal life in the first place? It's okay if she wants to dish it out, but she's gonna have to get used to people retaliating.
actually, rosie hasn't said as much in response to the initial spat as trump has. he's been going on every tv/radio/press appearance he can to voice his anger. it's like he's desperate to bring her down, over really very little. people have said far worse about him. and he, like rosie, should be able to take it. if you're in the public eye -- it comes w/the territory.
but, i'm in karen's camp... he's a bit of a bully and he's using his regular m.o. here. if you remember, he's had many publich fights (most recently w/martha stewart) and he came off looking like a spoiled brat.
barbara walters released a statment saying that she supports both of them... but trump claimed that barbara lied in her statement and actually hates rosie and is embarrassed by her. that sounds kinda desperate to me. and not really professional for a businessman of his stature. therefore, a little hypocritical. besides... i don't buy it. barbara's a smart lady... she knows controversy = ratings. she's having a friggin orgasm just reading the latest nielson report.
what i can't understand is that viewers are forgetting that rosie is a commedian, first and foremost. she's infamous for hard-hitting, biting defamation of character...and making no apologies. i kinda like that she's pulling no punches and sticking to her guns...
so, if i had to choose between the two ... it would be rosie hands down. i don't agree w/everything she says... but at least it's good tv.
no, she hasn't said that much in response to the initial spat... problem is, there was no "initial" spat until she started the "initial" spat.
johnny
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