Rosie O’Donnell has issued a public apology to Wynonna Judd after claiming on a podcast that her longtime friend supports President Donald Trump. The comment came during an August appearance on“The Tangle with Kyle Ridley,”where Rosie said she assumed Wynonna was a Trump supporter because Wynonna performed at Mar-a-Lago in November 2023 for a conservative think tank conference. Friday’s apology was short and direct: Rosie said she thought the Mar-a-Lago performance meant Wynonna backed Trump, and apologized if she was wrong.
Wynonna responded earlier this week, telling People she was“in shock”when she heard the claim. She made her position clear, saying she’s an independent and has never discussed politics with Rosie in her life. The two have been friends since the 1990s, when Wynonna appeared on“The Rosie O’Donnell Show,”which makes this whole situation sting a little more than your average celebrity spat.
The bigger takeaway here isn’t really about either star. It’s about how quickly we assign labels to people we care about based on one performance, one post, or one party they showed up to. Politically, this kind of assumption can end friendships that took decades to build. So what do you think: should friends assume each other’s politics, or should they just ask?
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