Rosie ODonnell says ABC hit pause on skit mocking Trump as it prepared lawsuit against the govt

Rosie O’Donnell claimed ABC forced her to pause a skit mocking President Trump during her week-long stint hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” because the network was preparing to sue his administration.O’Donnell – the former daytime talk show host and “A League of Their Own” actor who fled to Ireland after Trump won the 2024 election – revealed the network interference during an appearance on “The Jann Arden Podcast” earlier this month.The expat comedian said she was planning to jab at the president with her “Donny Boy” sketch – a play on the Irish folk song “Danny Boy” – on April 17, her first night filling in for Kimmel, but right before filming started, “The network called and said, ‘We don’t want you to do it.’”“Now I had five minutes to prepare a different monologue,” O’Donnell said, adding that network executives wouldn’t give her a reason for hitting pause on the skit.“Well, the next day we found out why,” she said.“The next day when I woke up, I went, now I understand.”On Aug.

18, the Disney-owned network filed a lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission, escalating a monthslong battle with the government as it accused the Trump administration of a “retaliatory campaign.”“Had they said to me, ‘There’s something coming down corporately tomorrow and we would prefer you waited,’ I just would have waited without being so, ‘What’s happening, what’s happening?’” O’Donnell said. Her “Donny Boy” sketch aired on the show later in the week, with O’Donnell dedicating the sardonic ditty to a “very special boy.”ABC did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.O’Donnell also said on the podcast that she wanted to close her last night as a guest host with a segment involving victims of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but “they said that they were certain that could not happen.”Cindi Berger, a representative for O’Donnell, told The P...