Rosie O’Donnell’s therapist strongly advised her to step away from social media due to her increasingly consuming obsession with President Donald Trump. However, the comedian found it difficult to stay offline, even for a brief period.

Just before Thanksgiving, O’Donnell promised her therapist she would refrain from mentioning the Republican president online for two days, as detailed in a Washington Post article exploring her life in Ireland.

Unfortunately, the commitment was short-lived. The report noted that her resolve crumbled in only a few hours.

Jeanne Kopetic, her therapist, expressed her frustration during a session, urging, “Roseann, you need to disengage. You’ve got to unplug.”

Yet, breaking away was more challenging than anticipated. O’Donnell, whose outspoken criticism of Trump has been a hallmark of her public persona for nearly twenty years, gave it another shot that Friday.

She told her 1.2 million Instagram followers she was ‘gonna try again to not give him a minute of me.’ 

But even that farewell post referenced a Trump remark that had been gnawing at her since the president made a crude swipe at a female journalist who had questioned him about Jeffrey Epstein.

Despite the promises, she cracked once again within hours. And according to The Post, her deep, uncontrollable need to respond to Trump’s every move is now worrying the people closest to her.

Rosie O’Donnell ‘s therapist begged her to cut herself off from social media over what friends and family have described as a spiraling fixation with President Donald Trump

Trump’s disdain for O’Donnell dates back to 2006 when O’Donnell, a comedian and host on The View at the time, mocked Trump over his handling of a controversy concerning a winner of the Miss USA pageant, which Trump had owned

O’Donnell had been attempting to abstain from posting about Trump when his comment towards a female reporter triggered her sending her back online with this meme

O’Donnell’s longtime friends have grown increasingly alarmed over the emotional toll her obsession takes. 

Kopetic, the therapist who has worked closely with the comedian for years, has repeatedly warned her to unplug from the chaos of American politics.

‘That kind of obsessiveness is why she knew she had to leave [the States],’ the WaPo wrote. 

Her brother Eddie agreed, calling her decision to flee to Ireland earlier this year, shortly after Trump entered his second term, ‘the best decision she’s made.’

But as the Post writer put it: ‘Still, when you have a phone and a fixation, it can be hard to totally disengage.’

The breaking point came last month after Trump told Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey to be ‘quiet, piggy,’ – a remark that immediately sent O’Donnell online. 

Hours into her self-imposed detox, she erupted on social media, telling CNN’s Jim Acosta that she believed the White House press corps had allowed Trump to verbally ‘rape’ a reporter.

Trump’s disdain for O’Donnell dates back to 2006 when O’Donnell, a comedian and host on The View at the time, mocked Trump over his handling of a controversy concerning a winner of the Miss USA pageant, which Trump had owned. 

Even this past weekend, O’Donnell has continued to post meme after meme against Trump

O’Donnell spends much of her time obsessing over President Trump and posting against him

In other blatant attacks on Trump, O’Donnell posted artwork of the president stating ‘He rapes’

O’Donnell posted to Instagram a message aimed at Trump stating she ‘sees him for who he is’

The feud famously resurfaced on the GOP presidential debate stage in 2015, when Megyn Kelly pressed Trump about derogatory language he had used about women. 

Trump brushed the criticism aside by saying he had been ‘only’ referring to O’Donnell – a line that thrust their feud back into the spotlight.

By the time Trump won again in 2024, the comedian says she felt unsafe living in the United States. 

She decamped to Ireland with her youngest child, Clay, who is non-binary. 

O’Donnell has since said she will only return ‘when you know it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America.’

But leaving the country has done little to diminish her anger.

Earlier this year on The Jim Acosta Show, O’Donnell claimed her 12-year-old child who has autism, had begun slamming their fist on the table in rage over Trump’s reelection. 

‘Damn him. Damn Trump,’ she quoted the child as saying, insisting they believed the move to Ireland had been ‘for our own safety.’

O’Donnell said she worried about how much of her own political fury her child was absorbing. 

‘I don’t want my kid to be so affected by it,’ she said. ‘Somebody can tap me out, you know? I did 22 years. I don’t really need to do [it] anymore.’

Trump himself has continued to use her as a political punching bag, calling her ‘not a Great American’ and twice threatening to revoke her US citizenship. 

President Donald Trump says he is considering ‘taking away’ the U.S. citizenship of a longtime rival , actress and comedian Rosie O´Donnell

Trump keeps on repeating his threat to remove O’Donnell’s citizenship

Trump threatened to revoke O’Donnell’s US citizenship in September and said on Truth Social that the liberal actress was ‘not a Great American’ and ‘in my opinion, incapable of being so’

O’Donnell has been living in Ireland with her child in ‘self-imposed exile’ after Trump’s presidential election win in 2024

‘She is a Threat to Humanity,’ he wrote on Truth Social over the summer, saying Ireland was ‘better off’ keeping her.

O’Donnell insists her life in Ireland has given her peace. ‘People are so loving and so kind,’ she said in an interview earlier this year. ‘I’m very grateful.’

Still, even during her self-described ‘exile,’ the president appears to remain a dominating force in her headspace.

When Trump joked to Ireland’s leader that he was ‘better off not knowing’ who she was, O’Donnell told Irish television she found it deeply disrespectful. 

‘The President of the United States has it out for me and has for 20 years,’ she said. ‘He sort of uses me as a punchline whenever he feels the need.’