Rosie O’Donnell sees Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding as “worthless performative nonsense,” and wonders why Oprah Winfrey chose to partake in it. In a poem shared to her Substack on June 29, 2025, critiqued “celebrity worship” and suggested that it serves as a distraction from larger issues.
Rosie has long been a critic of President Donald Trump. The comedian and TV personality moved to Ireland after Trump’s inauguration. In her poem, Rosie took aim at Bezos and said “he is not a nice man.”
“It turned my stomach seeing all these billionaires gathering in the gross excess of it all,” she wrote. “The show of it.” She went on to question Oprah’s presence at the extravagant wedding celebration. “Is Oprah friends with Jeff Bezos? Really — how is that possible?” Rosie continued. “He treats his employees with disdain. By any metric he is not a nice man.”
Elsewhere in the poem, she wrote, “Bezos was raised by a single mother. He knows exactly what he does. So do all of his guests, posing for photos (and) forgetting themselves in their designer outfits, ready for a vogue cover, a spot on ET.” She described it all as “more worthless performative nonsense.”
As celebrities including Oprah, Kim Kardashian, Orlando Bloom, and Leonardo DiCaprio, attended the Bezos wedding, Rosie thought about the many political issues she’s currently worried about. Among the issues, she listed Trump’s proposed “big, beautiful bill” and attacks on LGBTQ+ rights.
Although Rosie was clearly upset that so many celebrities attended the lavish wedding, others are also speaking out against it. On the weekend of the wedding, actor Charlize Theron hosted her annual Africa Outreach Block Party in Los Angeles. During a speech at the event, Charlize said, “I think we might be the only people who did not get an invite to the Bezos wedding. But that’s OK because they suck and we’re cool.”
She was also critical of the Trump administration’s policies, although she didn’t name Trump directly. “Here in Los Angeles, in the US, and across the globe, we’re moving backwards fast,” Charlize continued. “Immigration policy has destroyed the lives of families, not criminals; women’s rights are becoming less and less every day; queer and trans lives are increasingly being erased; and gender-based violence is on the rise.”
