How far back do Donald Trump and Rosie O’Donnell go? My God, so far. All the way back to 2006, according to legend, a time before memory it seems. O’Donnell called out Trump for positioning himself as the moral authority on the conduct of Miss USA contestants, a pageant the president of the United States of America once owned (O’Donnell’s short rant on The View makes for great television, but the gist of it is that Trump’s record on sex stuff is not great. Prescient!) Trump took to trolling her on Twitter, like when she later announced her engagement. He said, “I feel sorry for Rosie 's new partner in love whose parents are devastated at the thought of their daughter being with @Rosie--a true loser.”

For worse or for worser, their relationship is still of note more than a decade later for a single reason: one half of the duo doesn’t believe that being in the White House is reason enough to stop tweeting at the other half. On May 11, after firing former F.B.I. director James Comey, the television relic shot off a Twitter missive to the other television relic about his decision:

Because she’s public enemy number four or five (behind the leakers, various government institutions that provide checks and balances to executive power, and “the media”), what O’Donnell says now matters more than ever. It matters even more than it did on The View or A League of Their Own’s press tour. It even matters too much for her to play Steve Bannon on Saturday Night Live, according to Lorne Michaels, as told by cast member Leslie Jones.

And O’Donnell had her say at a stand-up comedy show in New York on Wednesday, which was called “WTF Donny,” so really, what else did we expect? O’Donnell said that dedicated Trump-ettes harass her and her family, according to Page Six. Which is truly awful, but if you want to redirect that hate back at the source, go easy on his prized possession Ivanka. Take pity, O’Donnell said, rather than hate:

The next time you or I want to make fun of Ivanka, I want you to carefully think—with compassion—about what . . . [she] had to do to survive. . . being favorited by that cult leader who has the power to fool a nation, and she was his chosen child.

Pity for Ivanka doesn’t come easy. Her role in the White House is still not well-understood. We know she’s a Woman Who Works, but doing what? Still without an official title, she meets foreign leaders, discusses various initiatives with action committees, and babysits her father, by his own admission. Mostly, though, the word “complicit” has come to personify her, so much so that S.N.L. made a mock commercial for a perfume called “Complicit.”

O’Donnell added that being his favorite “is not a fun, healthy, or recoverable place to be.” And there’s poetry to prove that Rosie really has made her peace with Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner.