Actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell apologized Sunday after wrongly claiming that the Minneapolis Catholic school shooter was a “MAGA supporter, a Republican, and a White supremacist.”
Her initial remarks came Thursday, just hours after the attack at Annunciation Catholic Church and School that left two children dead and 18 others injured, including 15 students.
O’Donnell’s False Claim
In her first video post, O’Donnell compared the tragedy to the Columbine massacre of 1999 and expressed disbelief at recurring school shootings.
“What do you know? It was a white guy, Republican, MAGA person. What do you know? White supremacists,” she said in the since-deleted clip.
Rosie O’Donnell falsely says the Minneapolis trans attacker was a “Republican, MAGA person, white supremacist.”
Rosie has a daughter who identities as they/them so you can see why Rosie ignores that the attacker was leftist and trans.
Rosie can’t face reality.
(rosie on TT) pic.twitter.com/tquNQEU7Mt
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 29, 2025
Sunday Apology
By Sunday, O’Donnell backtracked, admitting her assumptions about the shooter were false.
“You are right. I did not do my due diligence before I made that emotional statement, and I said things about the shooter that were incorrect,” she said in a new video.
“I assumed, like most shooters, they followed a standard MO and had standard, you know, feelings of… you know, 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.”
BREAKING – A rattled Rosie O’Donnell has just released an apology video to MAGA for her earlier video in which she blamed the Minnesota Catholic school tragedy on MAGA, falsely claiming the suspect was a White supremacist MAGA voter.
What’s your reply to Rosie? pic.twitter.com/1AY30qUnXF
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) August 31, 2025
Her apology drew sharp online criticism.
Some users called it “the most unapologetic apology ever,” while others accused her of “trying to save face.” One commenter warned that such missteps worsen division in the country, saying: “So much mistruths being spread by both sides. People need to fact check every single political thing that they see because the majority of it is a lie.”
The Attack
The Minneapolis shooting took place during Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church, where students and parishioners scrambled for cover as bullets shattered stained-glass windows and pew-side panels.
Authorities later identified the gunman as a transgender individual motivated by extremist ideology. FBI Director Kash Patel described the attack as domestic terrorism “motivated by a hate-filled ideology.”
Patel said the shooter’s manifesto contained anti-Catholic and antisemitic messages, including phrases like “Israel must fall” and “Free Palestine,” alongside Holocaust-related slurs.
