Roseanne Barr reveals why Trump's inner circle have given her the cold shoulder despite going full MAGA
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Roseanne Barr's political transformation in recent years has shocked many of her old fans after she went from launching a left-wing presidential campaign to giving her full-throated support to Donald Trump's MAGA movement.
But the 72-year-old actress and comedian revealed that her hard-right turn has surprisingly not endeared her to the people she most expected to be in her corner — the reelected president's inner circle.
In a new interview with Variety, the fired Roseanne star revealed that those close to Trump have given her the cold shoulder over concerns that she's too unpredictable, despite cozying up to other conservative and right-wing celebrities.
Even her shocking new pro-Trump rap video released just before the inauguration didn't seem to win her any new fans from the administration or those close to it.
'The Trump administration regards me as a loose cannon, which I am,' Barr admitted. 'I’m not a party line person for anyone or anything except myself.'
Although she acknowledged that she understood why Trump's closest associates might be afraid to associate with her, she said it still hurt after she had completely reinvented her public image.
Roseanne Barr, 72, revealed in an interview with Variety that her right-wing turn in recent years hasn't gotten her any closer to President Donald Trump's inner circle; pictured in May in LA
The fired Roseanne star revealed that those close to Trump have given her the cold shoulder over concerns that she's too unpredictable, despite cozying up to other conservative and right-wing celebrities; Trump is seen Monday in Doral, Florida
'The Trump staff or whoever runs it, they’re a little afraid of me,' Barr continued. 'I am a loudmouth comedian, so I understand it.
'But it really hurt my feelings,' she added. 'But what are you gonna do?'
Even if those political figures close to the president — and convicted felon — won't associate with her, Barr is still committed to making new right wing–friendly comedy.
She revealed to the trade publication that she has written a new comedy show with Allan Stephan, a writer and producer who previously worked on Arli$$ and collaborated with her on Roseanne.
Barr and Stephan are reportedly shopping around the show, which is said to only be about four to six episodes long in its initial season, which Variety compared to UK comedies.
The former TV star described the show as 'a cross between The Roseanne Show and The Sopranos.'
It focuses on a farmer in small-town Alabama who is 'saving the United States from drug gangs and China.'
In order to make ends meet, the farmer will experiment with growing and selling marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms.
'The Trump administration regards me as a loose cannon, which I am,' Barr admitted. 'I’m not a party line person for anyone or anything except myself'
'The Trump staff or whoever runs it, they’re a little afraid of me. I am a loudmouth comedian, so I understand it. But it really hurt my feelings,' she added. 'But what are you gonna do?'; seen in 2018 in Beverly Hills
'It’s silly and out there,' Barr said of the potential series. '[It will contain] very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing.
'I live with my daughter and her husband and their six children on a farm. And they have goats running through their house and stuff,' she explained. 'It’s based on my life as a farmer in Hawaii. They save America with guns, the Bible, petty crime and alcoholism.
She also compared the show to films made by the Coen brothers — best known for directing Fargo, The Big Lebowski and No Country For Old Men — though her synopsis bears little resemblance to their films.
If Barr is successful, it will be a shocking comeback, as she hasn't starred on a television show since she was fired from the ABC revival of her hit sitcom Roseanne in 2018 after she made racist remarks calling former Michelle Obama aide Valerie Jarrett — who is Black — the descendant of the 'Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.'
Barr later deleted the tweet and offered an apology to Jarrett, but ABC fired her from the series and went forward with a spinoff in which her character had died called The Conners.
Barr claimed to Variety that Disney CEO Bob Iger decided to fire her after calling Jarrett and Obama, but a Disney source told Variety that Iger never spoke with Obama, and they said he only chatted with Jarrett after the decision to ax Barr had been made.
Barr said she planned to make her show whether or not it got picked up by a network.
'If Hollywood doesn’t buy it, then I’m just gonna make it myself,' she said defiantly. 'Does anybody in [Hollywood] like America or the people who watch TV? Because the people who watch TV would really like to see a show where working-class people win against the enemies of America.'
Barr hasn't starred on a television show since she was fired from the ABC revival of Roseanne in 2018 after she made racist remarks calling former Michelle Obama aide Valerie Jarrett — who is Black — the descendant of the 'Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes'; pictured with John Goodman on Roseanne
'I don’t give a f*** either way,' she continued. 'I’d like to get paid handsomely to bring another s*** f***ing network back from doom as I’ve done twice for ABC. But I just don’t see how they would keep their nose out of my business.
'We’ll see. If not, I’ll just go somewhere else and put it on my own website,' she added.
Barr went on to say that Hollywood had 'made itself irrelevant to the American people,' and she suggested it should make pro-Trump content if it wanted to survive.
However, she claimed Hollywood executives were 'ideologues' who might not be willing to change their ways.
'What shocks me is the fact that they prefer to lose money and then explain that to the shareholders who apparently have no problem with that,' she claimed.
