{"id":149323,"date":"2025-09-01T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/?p=149253"},"modified":"2025-09-01T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:12:12","slug":"rosie-odonnell-apologizes-for-emotional-claim-that-trans-shooter-was-a-maga-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/rosie-odonnell-apologizes-for-emotional-claim-that-trans-shooter-was-a-maga-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosie O\u2019Donnell apologizes for &#8217;emotional claim&#8217; that trans shooter was a \u2018MAGA person\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>, September 1, 2025 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real World News<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rosie O\u2019Donnell, who moved to Ireland to escape MAGA, is now apologizing for falsely asserting that the transgender shooter who opened fire during a Catholic school mass in Minneapolis \u201cwas a Republican MAGA person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@rosie\/video\/7544730839762996511?lang=en\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">video<\/span><\/a>\u00a0posted to TikTok, O\u2019Donnell admitted that she had failed to do her \u201cdue diligence\u201d before she \u201cmade that emotional statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-149265 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RosOd-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"225\" \/>O\u2019Donnell continued to add that she had \u201cassumed\u201d that the shooter, a male who decided to identify as female and changed his name from Robert to Robin Westman at age 17, had been an \u201cNRA loving kind of gun people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know a lot of you were very upset about the video I made before I went away for a few days,\u201d O\u2019Donnell began. \u201cI didn\u2019t go online and haven\u2019t seen them \u2019til today, but you are right. I did not do my due diligence before I made that emotional statement, and I said things about the shooter that were incorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI assumed, like most shooters, they followed a standard MO and had standard, you know, feelings of\u2026.. you know, NRA loving kind of gun people,\u201d O\u2019Donnell continued. \u201cAnyway, the truth is, I messed up, and when you mess up, you fess up. I\u2019m sorry, this is my apology video, and I hope it\u2019s enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart London\u2019s Managing Editor Simon Kent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2025\/08\/29\/rosie-odonnell-falsely-claims-the-anti-catholic-trans-minneapolis-school-shooter-was-a-republican-maga-person\/\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">reported<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that O\u2019Donnell, who\u00a0self-deported\u00a0to Ireland after President Donald Trump\u2019s win in the 2024 presidential election, had claimed that the shooter had been a \u201cwhite guy, Republican, MAGA person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell further alleged: \u201cThe NRA is a terrorist organization. And they have been for many year [\u2026] the system is broken. We are more about guns than we do our children. When is enough enough America? Haven\u2019t you have enough of Donald Trump? The Heritage Foundation? All their bullshit? He\u2019s their puppet. \u2026 but guess what? It\u2019s coming to an end, he\u2019s not doing well.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/beat-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\"><strong> Beat <span style=\"color: #333399;\"> The Press <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff, September 1, 2025 Real World News Rosie O\u2019Donnell, who moved to Ireland to escape MAGA, is now apologizing for falsely asserting that the transgender shooter who opened fire during a Catholic school mass in Minneapolis \u201cwas a Republican MAGA person.\u201d In a\u00a0video\u00a0posted to TikTok, O\u2019Donnell admitted that she had failed to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":149265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,48,9,10,87,16],"tags":[598],"class_list":["post-149323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusives","category-faith","category-rest-of-the-best","category-top-stories","category-u-s-history","category-u-s-politics","tag-rosie-odonnell-apologizes-for-emotional-claim-that-trans-shooter-was-a-maga-person","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}