Rosie O’Donnell Says SNL Found Her ‘Too Angry’ for a Donald Trump Parody

Rosie O’Donnell is ready to mock Donald Trump in a SNL parody. However, the comedian has also revealed the reason why the sketch hasn’t happened yet. O’Donnell opened up about not appearing on the late-night sketch comedy show for a Trump parody in a recent interview.

Rosie O’Donnell says she’d play Donald Trump on SNL, but Lorne hasn’t asked

Rosie O’Donnell has been a vocal critic of Donald Trump for a long time. The comedian is no stranger to exchanging insults with him over the years. Speaking with Variety on Thursday, O’Donnell revealed that she is even willing to make a Saturday Night Live parody of Trump. However, she speculates that SNL creator Lorne Michaels is the reason why that hasn’t happened yet.

When asked if she had been offered by SNL to perform a sketch parody mocking Trump, O’Donnell said, “No, I haven’t been asked to do that.” She then revealed, “But I put a picture up of me with Steve Bannon’s hair right when that was going down and I wrote, ‘SNL?’ Lorne had apparently said, ‘She’s too angry. It’s not funny when you’re angry.’”

O’Donnell clarified that she “wasn’t angry.” The comedian explained, “I just thought it would be funny to do him. But no, I haven’t been asked to do that. But believe me, I would if they asked me.” The comedian has hosted Saturday Night Live twice in the past, on November 13, 1993, and on December 14, 1996.

Meanwhile, O’Donnell continues to clash with Donald Trump publicly. In a recent interview on The View With Jake Tapper, she called the president a “mediocre man with such a horrible, horrible reputation.” The comedian said that his election was the “worst thing that ever happened to the United States.”

Trump had previously called O’Donnell a “Threat to Humanity” in a 2025 Truth Social post and threatened to revoke her citizenship.