Rosie O'Donnell Says Trump Will Not Survive Until January 2029

Rosie O'Donnell said Friday that President Trump will not survive until January 2029. Appearing on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper," she described his condition as visible to anyone not willfully blind and linked recent verbal errors to dementia. O'Donnell pointed to two incidents at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.

Host Jake Tapper noted the second example during the exchange. "He makes the kind of mistakes that you would forgive at Thanksgiving dinner, but you would never let grandpa cut the turkey," O'Donnell said. She added that the errors reflect dementia taking over.

Tapper asked whether O'Donnell would return to the United States when Trump leaves office in January 2029 or after the 2028 election. "Well, I don't think, Jake, that he is going to survive that long," she replied. O'Donnell moved to Ireland in 2025 after Trump's reelection.

She returned to promote her one-woman show "Common Knowledge," which opens off-Broadway on July 22. In July 2025 Trump wrote that he was considering revoking her citizenship.