--- description: "Try explaining that 2 ur kids" title: Here's How Rosie O'Donnell Responded to Donald Trump's Jab image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba1aee34d7c205aa/69885e51524fc02941df3f08/rosie-odonnell.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's How Rosie O'Donnell Responded to Donald Trump's Jab by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 7, 2015 2:03 PM CUT  Rosie O'Donnell attends the Broadway opening night performance of "Hamilton" at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on August 6, 2015 in New York City. Rosie O'Donnell attends the Broadway opening night performance of "Hamilton" at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on August 6, 2015 in New York City.Walter McBride—WireImage/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 7, 2015 2:03 PM CUT Rosie O’Donnell responded to an insult from Donald Trump on Twitter after the 2016 hopeful mocked her during the first Republican presidential debate. When Megyn Kelly, one of the debate’s moderators, [pointed out](http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/republican-presidential-debate-rosie-odonnell-donald-trump-121126.html "undefined") to Trump that he has called women he doesn’t like “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals,” he cut her off, saying, “Only Rosie O’Donnell.” O’Donnell took to Twitter to reply to the slight: > [](https://twitter.com/Rosie/status/629464156199092225) Kelly also took Trump to task for his reply, saying, “For the record, it was well beyond Rosie O’Donnell.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3988748/rosie-odonnell-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3988748/rosie-odonnell-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Here's How Rosie O'Donnell Responded to Donald Trump's Jab","datePublished":"2015-08-07T14:03:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:59:58.693Z","description":"\"Try explaining that 2 ur kids\"","url":"https://time.com/3988748/rosie-odonnell-donald-trump/","keywords":["celebrities","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba1aee34d7c205aa/69885e51524fc02941df3f08/rosie-odonnell.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba1aee34d7c205aa/69885e51524fc02941df3f08/rosie-odonnell.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Hamilton\" Broadway Opening Night - Arrivals And Curtain Call","caption":"\"Hamilton\" Broadway Opening Night - Arrivals And Curtain Call","creditText":"Walter McBride—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3988748/rosie-odonnell-donald-trump/","name":"Here's How Rosie O'Donnell Responded to Donald Trump's Jab"}}]}] ```