Last night, both Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump took to their respective stages to share their thoughts on various topics, but it was O’Donnell who stole the show with her poignant Off-Broadway solo performance, ‘Common Knowledge.’

Just hours before Trump delivered his widely panned, mean-spirited, and deceitful address at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, O’Donnell made full use of her ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ with a candid and humorous account of her recent move to Ireland and the personal upheavals that preceded it.

While Trump’s speech was met with silence, O’Donnell’s performance was a huge success, with the audience erupting in applause at her retort to the president’s citizenship threat.

‘I thought it was a joke,’ O’Donnell said when she learned of the Truth Social post. ‘But realizing that it was, indeed, a real post, O’Donnell simply told the press that the president could not legally revoke her citizenship.’

‘I was praised for being calm,’ O’Donnell said during ‘Common Knowledge,’ ‘but I wanted to go [she grabs her crotch and yells] ‘Eat me, you orange fuck.’

The show provided a fairly detailed account of Trump’s impact on O’Donnell’s life and mental health, including her struggles with depression during and after the Covid pandemic isolation, her worries about her young daughter’s autism, and her extended career break.

However, the most effective and moving parts of ‘Common Knowledge’ were O’Donnell’s account of the day in 1973 when her ailing mother died, and her loving but candid depiction of her youngest adopted child, Dakota.

At 10 years old, O’Donnell was summoned home from a neighbor’s house and told by her father that her mother had died. She recalls that her five-year-old brother most certainly did grasp the full impact of the moment, hugging her leg and telling her that she’ll have to be the mommy from now on.

Like The Wizard of Oz in reverse, as O’Donnell describes it, the color was instantly drained from her childhood. Her grieving father temporarily relocated the family to Donegal, Ireland, which in 1973 was reeling from its very own Troubles.

The show’s Ireland interlude is intriguing, but nothing in the performance quite prepares us for O’Donnell’s loving but candid depiction of her youngest adopted child, Dakota. At 10 months, little Dakota is able to speak in complete sentences, as we are shown in vivid detail.

O’Donnell’s account of her relationship with Trump is also a central theme in the show, including her reaction to his citizenship threat and her decision to move to Ireland in January 2025, a relocation she says was prompted in no small part by Trump’s second election to the presidency.

The president responded to O’Donnell’s move by writing on Truth Social, ‘Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her.’

That Truth Social message was posted a year ago, but as Trump proved at last night’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, O’Donnell remains at the forefront of the many grievances he harbors, right up there with late-night talk show hosts, political rivals, and CNN journalists.

Despite the challenges and personal upheavals she has faced, O’Donnell remains a powerful voice for those who have been marginalized and oppressed. Her performance in ‘Common Knowledge’ is a testament to her strength and resilience, and a reminder that even in the darkest of times, there is always hope.