Donald Trump's celebrity nemesis Rosie O'Donnell reignited their decade-long feud – unloading on the GOP presidential front-runner as man with a single purpose: "to sell his name and image."
In an interview to air Sunday on WABC's
"Election Central with Rita Cosby," the comedian and actress says the real estate billionaire aims to be as "outrageous as he can.
"He sells an image that is not in any way a truth," O'Donnell said. "He claims he’s a builder. He’s not. He’s a licenser. He is a logo-slapper. He puts his brand on products."
The feud between the two started in 2006, when Trump decided not to fire a Miss USA pageant winner over past drug use and drinking. O’Donnell, a host of ABC's "The View" at the time, blasted the move. Trump responded by calling O'Donnell "a real loser" and "a women out of control."
Then during the first GOP debate Aug. 6,, Fox News host Megyn Kelly referenced past comments Trump made about women as "fat pigs, dogs, slobs, disgusting animals." The front-runner interrupted her to say his comments referred
"only [to] Rosie O'Donnell."
"What he’s [Trump’s] doing is trying to be as outrageous as he can," O’Donnell tells Cosby. "Because at the end of the day all that matter to that man is his ability to sell his name and image."
O’Donnell said the entire Republican field is "very sad."
"You are running for President of the United States and all three of you [Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, Ohio Gov. John Kasich] think that, you white men, have the right to tell women in this country whether or not they should have a child?" she tells the radio host. "It’s mind-boggling to me. And the amount of divisive, vulgar, venomous, hateful rhetoric is unbelievable."
"It’s an epic battle worthy of a new Star Wars movie," she tells Cosby. "You have to decide, are you going to be with The Force or are you going to be on the Dark Side? It’s your choice."
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