Rosie O’Donnell says that President Donald Trump’s use of Twitter to troll her on her past statements about firing former FBI Director James Comey isn’t as funny as he was probably trying to be.
It’s a “clear indication of his seriously declining mental health,” Ms O’Donnell wrote in a text message that MSNBC host Nicole Wallace read on air. “This is no joke.”
In that text, Ms O’Donnell was replying to a retweet from Mr Trump in which he took a tweet she had written last year encouraging the dismissal of Mr Comey for intruding on the 2016 election and wrote above it saying, “We finally agree on something Rosie.”
Mr Trump’s tweet — riffing on a longstanding feud between the two — came just days after he suddenly fired Mr Comey from his position at the top of the FBI for similar reasons to those that convinced Ms O’Donnell to suggest his ouster. In firing Mr Comey, Mr Trump referenced a memo written by the Justice Department that indicated Mr Comey’s decision to be vocal and prominent in discussing his bureau’s thoughts on an ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton was inappropriate.
Mr Comey’s decision to send a letter to Congress just weeks before the 2016 election has been credited as an important and decisive moment that may have tilted the electorate in Mr Trump’s favour. Ms O’Donnell, a supporter of Ms Clinton, later tweeted that Mr Comey should be fired for those actions.
