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Roseanne Barr has left viewers speechless after appearing in an “awful” pro-Donald Trump rap video alongside the Canadian rapper and singer Tom MacDonald.
The music video for the song titled “Daddy’s Home”, sees Trump supporter Barr wearing box braids, gold chains and a pair of sunglasses as she shimmies her behind at the camera.
The song was released on Friday (17 January) to gloat about the election result, with the music video filled with MAGA symbolism and a convoy of cars waving dozens of US flags.
In the chorus, MacDonald raps: “We won, you mad / it’s done, too bad / boohoo, so sad / now your daddy’s home.”
He continues: “Thank God, that we’re back / Couldn’t take another four years / that’s a wrap / I can take a bath in your tears.”
In another moment, he raps: “Say goodbye to Joe, your daddy’s coming home,” referencing Trump’s imminent inauguration taking place Monday 20 January.
Barr, 72, whose eponymous sitcom was axed in 2018 after she was accused of making a racist remark about Barack Obama, raps in a verse: “They try to cancel me and say I’m a racist / I got a mean hook, they can’t get me with that jam.”
She continues: “Trying to take away my right to go and say this / Well, listen up, cuz this granny’s going bad.”
Elsewhere in the song, Barr takes a swipe at “The Real Slim Shady” rapper Eminem, saying: “Screw Eminem, I’m Roseanne,” as she flips off the camera.
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Barr was accused of making racist remarks in a tweet about Obama and his senior advisor Valerie Jarrett in 2018. Her ABC show was cancelled hours later.
ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey called Barr’s tweet “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values,” and announced that her show was cancelled.
Barr apologised at the time, writing online: “I apologise to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me – my joke was in bad taste.”
Barr appeared at a MAGA event in September in which she identified Trump as a “good friend” and gushed over him.
“President Trump … God bless that man I love him and everybody knows it,” she said. “I love him more now than I ever loved him and I loved him pretty damn good. He drove me out in a Bentley when I did my second HBO special at Trump Palace in Atlantic City if you’ve seen it.”
“He’s always been a good friend and a good man,” she said.
In recent years, Barr has aligned herself with conservative figures and stirred controversy for sharing bizarre conspiracy theories.
Her appearance in MacDonald’s rap video has been branded “awful” by viewers, as one wrote on X/Twitter: “Roseanne Barr wearing box braids and ‘rapping’ with Tom MacDonald was not on my 2025 bingo card.”
Another added: “Imagine ten years ago being like, ‘So one day you will watch a rap video bragging about Donald Trump getting re-elected [as] president that features Roseanne Barr in dreads grinding.”
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