Madonna made a rare, live appearance on The Today Show this morning to promote her voice-over work in the U.S. release of Luc Besson's Arthur and the Invisibles. (Madonna: "I don't like getting up and talking to people this early." Meredith Vieira: "So then what possessed you?" Madonna: "Um, Harvey Weinstein.") She touched briefly upon the subject of OrphanGate, merely to assure the world that David Banda—whom she admits she probably chose because of his physical resemblance to herself—couldn't be happier. But it's her thoughts on the far more pressing and controversial topic of the Donald vs. Rosie feud that have been making headlines:

"I mean Rosie's a good friend of mine...I heard something about it when I was in the middle of the Indian Ocean. I sent her an e-mail, and I said to her is everything OK, what's going on. I needed to hear it from the horse's mouth. And basically, she's a stand-up comic and all stand-up comics talk about provocative things in their monologues before shows. I don't know exactly the content of what she said but I have a feeling that if every stand-up comic was penalized for saying politically incorrect things or provocative things they'd all be hung in the public square, so if people were giving Rosie a hard time, I wish they'd stop. I don't think it's fair."

Madonna savvily refrained from specifying The Comb-Over'd One by name, an act of aggression that would have immediately called for a retaliatory statement on Trump Organization letterhead, in which, deprived of his trustworthy fat jokes, he would resort to dismissing O'Donnell's longtime friend as a "third-rate, degenerate pop icon" who "hasn't really done anything truly groundbreaking since the 'Express Yourself' video, which I still happen to love, by the way, especially when she licks the milk out of the saucer."