Rosie O’Donnell credits Trump for making her ‘re-famous’ as White House calls her ‘obsessed’

Rosie O'Donnell said the quiet part out loud. Trump feuding with her hasn't hurt her, it's the best career move she didn't have to lift a finger for. She said it herself: he's making her "re-famous." That's not a gotcha we're pulling out of context, that's her own analysis of the arrangement, delivered with the kind of gratitude usually reserved for a good agent.

And that's the part of these fights nobody on either side wants to admit. The attention economy runs on conflict, and Trump is a walking algorithm boost for whoever he decides to argue with. O'Donnell knows it. She's not hiding from the relevance, she's cashing the check while insulting the guy who wrote it. Fine. That's show business, and she's been in it long enough to read the room.

The White House calling her "obsessed" is the funnier angle here, because it's true of both sides at once. She can't stop talking about him, he apparently can't stop talking about her, and somehow this counts as news in a country with actual problems. We'd just note that if a D-list feud is what's keeping her "re-famous," the market has spoken about how much anyone missed her the first time around.

None of this moves policy or matters to a single family paying more at the grocery store. It's a celebrity spat with a press release attached. We're only writing about it because apparently the White House thought it deserved a response, which tells you something about who's actually obsessed.