Rosie O'Donnell said it is "embarrassing to be a billionaire."
She said that while sitting on an $80 million net worth.
Now she's posing in front of a private jet with Kathy Griffin – and what she said just months ago is about to make that photo very hard to explain.
The Woman Who Fled America Just Flew Back Into It
O'Donnell fled to Ireland in January 2025 – days before Trump's second inauguration – after telling the world she was leaving because Trump threatened to strip her citizenship and she no longer felt safe.
She came back anyway.
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Griffin posted the photo Friday on Instagram with the caption "The resistance has landed," announcing that O'Donnell would be guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live starting in July.
"Whatever Democrats accuse you of doing, THEY ARE DOING," one X user wrote.
The backlash was that fast and that unanimous.
The Rules Only Apply to You
A few months ago, O'Donnell said: "It should be embarrassing to have the ability to help society and choose not to."
She added: "I don't understand, how much can you have?"
She asked that question with $80 million in her bank account.
This is the same woman who hired armed bodyguards for years while calling for gun control for everyone else.
The same woman who lectured Americans about inequality, then moved her family to Ireland citing fear of the sitting U.S. president.
And now she's back – standing in front of a private jet, posting to Instagram, and heading straight to a late-night throne to lecture you some more.
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Kimmel set it up himself, announcing her guest hosting slot with a dig at Trump: "As a special treat for our commander in chief, I asked one of his all-time favorites, Rosie O'Donnell, to be here to keep the hits coming."
The hits are coming, all right – just not the ones Kimmel intended.
This Is Who the Left Has Always Been
This isn't new behavior from the left.
From Leonardo DiCaprio flying to environmental conferences on a private jet, to Bernie Sanders barnstorming his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour on a chartered plane, to John Kerry taking government jets to climate summits – the pattern is identical every time.
The rules are for you.
The private jets are for them.
One X user put it plainly: "The problem for these limo-liberals is how they define 'wealthy people.' It's not about money, it's about politics."
That's the whole game.
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O'Donnell isn't embarrassed by wealth – she's embarrassed by wealth that doesn't come with the right politics.
Billionaires who fund leftist causes?
Heroes.
Billionaires who support Trump?
An embarrassment to humanity.
She doesn't oppose money.
She opposes you having it – or your favorite politicians keeping it.
The resistance has returned to America.
It just costs more per hour to get here than your monthly mortgage payment.
Sources:
- Alana Mastrangelo, "Rosie O'Donnell Slammed for Posing in Front of Private Jet After Blasting Wealthy People as 'Embarrassing'," Breitbart, June 30, 2026.
- "Jimmy Kimmel Taps Rosie O'Donnell as Rotating Guest Host During Two-Month Hiatus," NBC News, June 22, 2026.
- "Bill Maher Admits He Uses a Private Jet, Calls Out 'Hypocrite' Environmentalists," Fox News, January 28, 2023.
- "Climate Hypocrites and the Media That Love Them," Media Research Center.
