Rosie, Donald Still at It

Wed., Mar. 14, 2007 12:56 PM PDT by Gina Serpe

If Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump want to continue to swap potshots, they may have to start looking for a bigger pot. Or, at the very least, an audience who's interested.

Despite the fact that the general public has long since ceased to get riled up on their respective behalves, the dynamic duo came out swinging once again this week in their public forums of choice—O'Donnell on her grammar-skewering blog and Trump on whichever entertainment news program would have him.

While their war of words, which kicked off nearly three months ago, has previously touched upon such atrocities as Miss USA, Trump's comb-over and O'Donnell's figure, this time around a seemingly unprovoked Trump resparked the feud by taking the View host to task over, of all things, her admission to suffering from depression.

Last week, during a special episode of the View devoted to the topic, O'Donnell hung upside down in front of her studio audience in order to demonstrate inversion therapy, a technique she said she employs 15 to 30 minutes a day to treat her depression. O'Donnell said she began suffering symptoms in the wake of the Columbine school shooting.

"I stayed in my room," she said. "The lights were off. I couldn't get out of bed and that's when I started taking medication."

And that's when Trump decided to take a swipe at mental illness in one of his now-standard low-road assaults.

"All she has to do is look in the mirror and she's going to suffer from depression," the Donald told Extra.

As for her inversion therapy, the non-medically certified Trump said, "I don't think it works and I can think of no sight that I'd rather less see than Rosie hanging by her feet."

Not one to leave an affront unanswered, O'Donnell fired back on her blog: "the dump truck is at it again...hurtful 2 know he doesn't find me attractive as it has been my goal for so long to give a bald billionaire a boner."

She wrapped up her lyrical insult by proving that perhaps she is as tired of the feud as the rest of the world, adding, "same same same."

Though, apparently, O'Donnell wasn't above going into repeat mode herself.

"This is an illness. It's an illness people. You can make fun as much as you want, but it's a mental illness," she said on Wednesday's show. When cohost Joy Behar said that no one makes fun of mental illness, O'Donnell responded, "Donald Trump does."

The moderator then led her fellow cohosts—Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and guest Susie Essman—in a group impersonation of Trump, complete with hair-dangling comb-over.

"The guy, he can't get over me is all I've got to say," she said, before promising to "never mention that dump truck again."

Not so coincidentally, Trump's stab at publicity came just a week before the real estate mogul/professional trash talker is due to crown a new Miss USA.