Roseanne Conner wasn’t always a Trump supporter in the ‘Roseanne’ revival

Roseanne Conner, of Roseanne, is a Donald Trump supporter. But that wasn’t always the case.

Co-executive producer Bruce Rasmussen, also a writer on the original series, revealed recently that TV Roseanne (not to be confused with IRL Roseanne Barr) started out as more of a lefty. It was Barr herself who pushed for her TV character to break for Trump.

“Originally I thought, like everybody else, that she would not be a supporter of Trump,” Rasmussen told EW. “But the moment we got in the writers’ room with Roseanne, she really wanted to be a supporter of Trump, not because she is one herself, but there are a lot of people in the Midwest who voted for him.” Read more…

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