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By Billie Schwab Dunn
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Comedian Roseanne Barr has nominated herself to be in the running as Donald Trump's vice president if he were to win the Republican nomination.
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When Ryan Fournier, a conservative activist and political commentator, posted to social media asking who Trump's vice president should be, Barr threw her hat in the ring.
"Who do you think President Trump should choose as his VP pick?" Fournier asked on X, formerly Twitter.
Barr replied: "Me."
The comedian previously revealed she had voted for Trump in the 2016 election and vowed to vote for him again should he win the Republican nomination. Newsweek reached out to a representative of Barr's for comment via email Thursday.
Various people took to the replies section to tell the comedian how much they loved the idea of her being vice president, including Andrew Tate's brother, Tristan Tate.
"This isn't actually a bad call. Trump Barr 2024? I'm in," the kickboxer wrote. Romania's anti-organized-crime agency has accused Tate and his brother Andrew of coercing six women into producing pornography through threatening "acts of physical violence and mental coercion." They were arrested along with two Romanian women and all four have denied wrongdoing.
"I'll go with Roseanne Barr or Tucker Carlson. Both of them would be outstanding. I would also love to have Roseanne as White House press secretary, she would be a beast!!!" someone else wrote.
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"That would be EPIC," another person posted.
"Strangely I could get behind that," a fourth person commented.
"That would be amazingly fun!!!!" wrote another.
This isn't the first time that there have been talks of Barr taking on this position, as failed Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake previously teased she wants Barr to be Trump's vice president pick. Lake praised Barr during an interview for the second episode of the comedian's eponymous show.
During the interview, Lake said: "I know that if President Trump needs a female vice president, I'm starting to think right now as I'm sitting here: Trump—Barr."
The statement was met with enthusiastic laughter from Barr who replied: "Well, you know, wherever I could be useful fellow and sister citizens. I have the time and I think I'm smart and I'm definitely committed to the survival of this representational government of, by and for the people, and I think that we can't let it disappear from the Earth because it won't ever come back."
While Barr has her supporters, she has also found herself under fire for a variety of incidents over the years.
Barr was castigated in Hollywood in 2018 after she tweeted that the "Muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby," referring to Valerie Jarrett, who is Black, and was a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama.
The tweet was widely considered to be racist and led to her being fired from her television show Roseanne.
"I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans," Barr later wrote. "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."
She found herself in hot water again when she made controversial statements while appearing on the podcast Triggered with Donald Trump Jr. in October. During their conversation, she spoke candidly about being "canceled" and also discussed politics.
A snippet from the interview was posted on X, causing quite a stir when it shared her statement: "I don't think anything is going to wake up the Jews and the Blacks who vote Democrat. They're so severely mind controlled[...]I don't think they can get it."
One person said: "Wow, Rosanne thinks 'the Blacks and Jews are severely mind controlled.' Deep thoughts by a seemingly ignorant human."
Another shared: "Red flag when you include 'the' in front of a minority group."
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