Wynonna Judd says she was left “in shock” after Rosie O’Donnell publicly labeled her a Donald Trump supporter, a claim the country star calls a complete assumption.
The country music icon told People she never discussed politics with the comedian and does not back the label O’Donnell hung on her. Judd identified herself as an independent and said the whole thing came out of nowhere.
Fox News Digital reported that O’Donnell made the remarks during an August appearance on “The Tangle with Kyle Ridley” podcast, describing a long friendship while asserting Judd’s politics as fact.
On the podcast, O’Donnell framed the friendship as proof she could set politics aside. She did not present the Trump claim as a guess.
O’Donnell said:
"I am friends with Wynonna Judd, who I love very much, and I’ve known her for many, many years. And she is a supporter of Trump. And somehow, we never bring it up,"
She added that she gives Judd “grace” because of hard chapters in Judd’s life, including her mother’s suicide and a complicated upbringing, and that she can put political differences aside when they talk.
O’Donnell has long been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. The two have traded public barbs for years. After Trump won the 2024 election, she moved to Ireland with her child and kept weighing in on American politics from abroad.
Judd’s answer was blunt. She said the podcast comments blindsided her.
Speaking to People, Judd said:
"I’m in shock, just so you know,"
She drew a hard line on what O’Donnell actually knows about her views.
"I’ve never spoken to her about politics in my life.... She doesn’t know anything about my stuff. I’m an independent."
Judd called the Trump-supporter tag a pure invention on O’Donnell’s part.
"I don’t know where it came [from]. It’s complete assumption,"
She described her first reaction in plain terms:
"I heard it and I went, ‘What the...?’ I don’t ever remember talking to her about this, so she’s just assuming.’"
The two women go back a long way. Judd was a recurring guest on O’Donnell’s 1990s daytime talk show. They stayed friends after the show ended. That history is real. A shared voting record is not what O’Donnell offered, because, Judd says, the conversation never took place.
Judd also made clear she is not looking for a public fight.
"I’m not angry,"
And:
"I just don’t want drama,"
She put the larger point this way:
"So, if there’s going to be drama [about it], I’m like, ‘Oh for crap’s sake, there’s so much going on right now in the world. Can we just love each other?’"
Fox News Digital reached out to O’Donnell for comment. No response is noted in the reporting.
When a public figure assigns you a political team you never joined, the decent move is to check first, not announce it on a podcast and call it grace.
