Material Girl Has Got Rosie’s Back

Rosie O”Donnell is rallying the troops in her feud with Donald Trump: her close friend Madonna. “People are giving Rosie a hard time,” Madonna, who starred with O’Donnell in 1992’s A League of Their Own, said Thursday on NBC’s Today show. “I wish they’d stop. I don’t think it’s fair.”

The 48-year-old pop star told Today co-host Meredith Vieira that she’d first heard about the flare-up between O’Donnell and Trump while vacationing “in the middle of the Indian Ocean” and quickly e-mailed O’Donnell.  

“I have to hear it from the horse’s mouth,” Madonna said. “Basically, I mean, she’s a stand-up comic. I think all stand-up comics talk about provocative things in their monologues before shows, and I think that’s a commonplace thing.”

“I don’t know exactly the content of what she said,” she continued, “but I have a feeling that if every stand-up comic was penalized for saying politically incorrect things or provocative things, I think they’d all be hung in the public square.”

The Rosie-Donald feud began last month after Trump announced that drinking. He owns the pageant.

O’Donnell, the outspoken moderator of ABC’s “The View,” hit a nerve when she said the twice-divorced real-estate mogul had no right to be “the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America.” Trump fired back, calling her a “loser” and a “fat pig” in various media interviews.

Madonna appeared on “Today” to promote “Arthur and the Invisibles,” a release by The Weinstein Co., slated to open Friday. Madonna, who voices the character of Princess Selenia, says playing a princess is “new” for her — and her fans.

“They perceive me as a queen, not a princess,” she joked, adding: “I just loved the idea of playing a character where I can create a fantasy world that has nothing to do with who I am, or what people associate with me.”