Rosie O’Donnell Apologizes for Calling Minnesota Church Shooter a ‘MAGA Person’

Rosie O’Donnell issued a public apology to supporters of President Donald Trump after wrongly suggesting the individual behind last week’s school shooting in Minneapolis was a “Republican, MAGA person.”

The attack at Annunciation Catholic Church left two children dead and 18 others wounded. The shooter, 23-year-old Robin Westman, later died from a self-inflicted gunshot.

In a now-deleted video posted to TikTok on Thursday, one day after the shooting, O’Donnell, who relocated to Ireland in January after Trump’s return to the White House, fumed that the shooter “was a white guy, Republican, MAGA person.”

“What do you know? White supremacists,” she added at the time.

Investigators, however, say Westman scrawled “a call for President Trump’s death” on a firearm magazine, alongside other writings expressing hatred for Christians, Black people, Hispanic people, Jews, and Israel.

After backlash, the comedian, who has feuded with Trump for nearly two decades, posted a further video conceding she “did not do” her “due diligence” before making what she called an “emotional statement.”

“I said things about the shooter that were incorrect,” she admitted.

O’Donnell said she had assumed the killer fit what she described as the “standard M-O” of “NRA-loving kind of gun people.”

She continued: “Anyway, the truth is I messed up, and when you mess up, you ‘fess up. I’m sorry. This is my apology video and I hope it’s enough.”

In a TikTok caption she added: “My apologies to maga for saying the school shooter was one of u – that is incorrect – i made a mistake – i didn’t research – im sorry.”

Watch above via TikTok.

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