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Rosie O'Donnell throws hat in ring to play next gender-bending Trump staffer

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Comedians, start your engines and may the best drag performer win.

Rosie O'Donnell has thrown her hat in the ring for the next drag king performance on Saturday Night Live, saying she'd love to play Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon if asked to step into the role. 

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Melissa McCarthy's impression of press secretary Sean Spicer looks set to become a regular feature on Saturday Night Live.

"Alec has trump, Melissa has Spice[r]," she wrote on Twitter. 

"I would need a few days to prepare, so if called, I will be ready." 

O'Donnell's offer comes after it was revealed White House press secretary Sean Spicer was upset with Melissa McCarthy's hilarious Saturday Night Live performance in which she mocked his temper and relationship with journalists. 

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The Ghostbusters star's performance has received enormous praise worldwide, with fans pointing out she's created a character as memorable - if not better than - Alec Baldwin's Trump impersonation.

But it turns out Spicer wasn't the only person to have his feathers ruffled by the skit. 

The President himself wasn't a fan of his number one press secretary and gum-chewer being mocked on national television.

But Donald Trump's biggest gripe wasn't the way McCarthy poked fun at Spicer's ill-fitting suit jackets or his penchant for yelling at reporters fact-checking his outright lies.  

No, what really got the Commander-in-Chief's goat was the fact Spicer was portrayed by a woman, according to those close to him.

The sketch – which saw McCarthy soak a reporter with a water pistol and ram another with her lectern – has struck a nerve inside a White House rattled by a tumultuous first few weeks in office.

Trump has in the past been openly critical of SNL but has remained unusually silent about last week's episode.

"Trump doesn't like his people to look weak," a top Trump donor told Politico

By getting McCarthy to slap on a realistic wig and fragile, macho personality, it appears SNL has done something the press have struggled to do: get under the new President's skin.