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Nyack's Rosie O'Donnell Continues TrumpFeud; President's Defenders Are Outraged

Rosie O'Donnell's recent re-tweet of an Internet game has President Donald Trump supporters infuriated.

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NYACK, NY — Comedian Rosie O'Donnell has been relentless in her opposition to President Donald Trump. The two have been celebrity enemies for more than 10 years. O'Donnell called Trump out in 2006 on TV for not paying his contractors and for his business failures. In return, on TV, he threatened to sue her and criticized her looks and figure.

When the activist, who has a home in Nyack, called for FBI Director James Comey's firing this spring, now-President Donald Trump tweeted that at last they agreed on something. She responded by calling him a sadist.

But five days ago she posted something that sent social media to DefCon 4 on the shrieking outrage meter. She retweeted a Twitter link to the internet game "Push Trump Off A Cliff Again."

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Here are two of the publishable responses:

But the screaming on social media hasn't stopped O'Donnell. Today she had a succinct response to the President's statement that he wouldn't have picked Jeff Sessions for Attorney General if he had known he was going to recuse himself from the Russia investigation:

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Here's the original tweet that is causing the uproar:

PHOTO: Rosie O'Donnell speaks at a rally calling for resistance to President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in Lafayette Park in front of the White House in Washington. Credit: Cliff Owen/Associated Press

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