Roseanne Barr Addresses Mar-a-Lago Rumor

Roseanne Barr has responded to speculation that she was drunk when she attended a recent event at Donald Trump’s Florida property, Mar-a-Lago.

Last week, Barr was at the Palm Beach resort for a fundraiser held for Kari Lake, the Trump-endorsed U.S. Senate candidate, who is vying for independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s seat, along with Democratic opponent Rep. Ruben Gallego. Sinema announced last month that she will not seek reelection.

Comedian Barr later took to Instagram to share footage of herself at the event, where she advised viewers to “drop out of college” and avoid “devil-worshiping, baby-blood-drinking Democrat donors” in an impassioned video message.

Holding a wine glass containing a cold beverage, Barr said: “Hey, Old Row. How are you doing? I’m here at Mar-a-Lago supporting Kari Lake. It was a fantastic evening and our Trump is here being the DJ and I’ve danced and everyone’s amazed.”

“So I’m just going to say to you, please drop out of college, because it’s going to ruin your life,” she went on. “Do me a favor, drop out. They don’t teach you nothing good. Email me or Twitter me, or whatever. You call me and I’ll help you with your life. But you’ve got to get out of college, because it isn’t nothing but devil-worshiping, baby-blood-drinking Democrat donors. Love ya.”

The clip went viral when it was posted on X, formerly Twitter, last week, garnering more than 2.5 million views as of press time.

One X user this week reminded the former Roseanne star of her moment on camera during an unrelated discussion. As people gathered across the U.S. for Monday’s solar eclipse, Barr wrote: “I’m not scared of the eclipse. I’m scared of 4 more years of commies.”

An X user responded by challenging Barr to “define commies,” prompting the TV personality to share a Wikipedia link as she wrote back: “Communism (from Latin communis, ‘common, universal’) is a left-wing to far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution. Time me b****.”

Another X user weighed into the exchange by posting a screenshot from the video footage of Barr at the Mar-a-Lago event, asking her in an accompanying caption: “You drunk again?”

“Not yet but give me 5 minutes,” Barr quipped.

Newsweek has contacted a representative of Barr via email for comment.

Further video footage from Lake’s fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago showed Barr addressing the crowd as the Senate hopeful stood nearby.

Barr, who ran for president in 2012 on the Green Party and Peace and Freedom Party ticket, told the attendees that she ran for office “because I thought it’s time for a woman. That’s what I thought, you know, and Kari, it’s time for a woman in the Senate. It’s time for a woman everywhere. You know why? Because anything a man can do a woman can get another man do even better. Am I right?”

Last year, Barr returned to the spotlight with her stand-up special Roseanne Barr: Cancel This!. Barr said that she was essentially banished from Hollywood in May 2018, after she tweeted that the “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby,” referring to Valerie Jarrett—a former senior adviser to former President Barack Obama—who is Black.

Barr said at the time that she wouldn’t have tweeted the joke had she known Jarrett was Black, and that she would have apologized on air, but ABC decided to fire her from her show, Roseanne, before she could. The network brought the show back as The Connors, with her lead character killed off.

The TV personality had been a staunch progressive earlier in her career, once protesting at an Occupy Wall Street rally and running for president first for the Green Party and later the Peace and Freedom Party. In 2016, she voted for Trump.

When asked in December by Newsweek why, in the face of mounting scrutiny and backlash, Barr continues to publicly share her political takes, the comedian responded: “It’s important for me to keep speaking because I can’t let the f****** win. That’s why.”