George Clooney Says ‘I Don’t Care’ If Trump Calls Me a ‘Fake Movie Actor’ Because ‘My Job Is Not to Please the President of the United States’

George Clooney is not bothered by Donald Trump slamming him. Appearing connected “CBS Mornings” to beforehand his Broadway debut successful “Good Night and Good Luck,” the Oscar victor was asked by big Gayle King astir the clip Trump branded him a “fake movie actor” connected Truth Social.

“I don’t care,” Clooney said. “I’ve known Donald Trump for a agelong time. My occupation is not to delight the President of the United States. My occupation is to effort and archer the information erstwhile I tin and erstwhile I person the opportunity. I americium good alert of the thought that radical volition not similar that… radical volition knock that. Elon Musk has weighed successful [about me]. That is their right. It’s my close to accidental the different side.”

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Trump launched a societal media onslaught connected Clooney last summertime aft the actor published an op-ed for The New York Times in which helium urged Joe Biden to measurement down arsenic the Democratic nominee for president. Clooney wrote that Biden had saved ideology earlier and could bash truthful again by stepping speech and giving Democrats a amended changeable astatine beating Trump fixed Biden’s aged age.

“So present fake movie histrion George Clooney, who ne'er came adjacent to making a large movie, is getting into the act,” Trump posted successful reaction. “He’s turned connected Crooked Joe similar the rats they some are.”

“What does Clooney cognize astir anything?” Trump past asked. “He uses the Democrat ‘talking point’ that Biden, the WORST President successful the past of the United States, has ‘saved our Democracy.’ No, Crooked Joe was the 1 who WEAPONIZED Law Enforcement against his governmental Opponent, who created the astir devastating INFLATION successful the past of our Country, who Embarrassed our Nation successful Afghanistan, and whose brainsick Open Border Policy has allowed millions of radical to illegally determination into our Country, galore from prisons and intelligence institutions. Crooked Joe Biden didn’t prevention our Democracy, helium brought our Democracy to its knees. Clooney should get retired of authorities and spell backmost to television. Movies ne'er truly worked for him!!!”

Clooney appeared connected “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” soon aft Trump’s station against him, wherever the precocious nighttime big work aloud Trump’s punctuation requesting Clooney get retired of politics. The histrion simply clapped backmost astatine the time: “I volition if helium does. That’s a trade-off I’d do.” The workplace assemblage roared successful approval.

Clooney precocious sat down with CNN’s Jake Tapper and said it was his “civic duty” to spell against Joe Biden successful the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination and champion an alternate Democratic nominee.

“I don’t cognize if it was brave,” Clooney said. “It was a civic work due to the fact that I recovered that radical connected my broadside of the thoroughfare — you know, I’m a Democrat successful Kentucky truthful I get it — erstwhile I saw radical connected my broadside of the thoroughfare not telling the information I thought that was clip to… immoderate radical [are mad], sure. That’s OK, you know, perceive the thought of state of code is you can’t request state of code and past say, ‘But don’t accidental atrocious things astir me.‘”

“That’s the deal, you person to instrumentality your basal if you judge successful it,” helium continued. “Take a stand, basal for it and past woody with the consequences. That’s the rules, truthful erstwhile radical knock maine — they criticized maine for my stance against the warfare 20 years ago, radical picketed my movies and they enactment maine connected a platform of cards — I person to instrumentality that, that’s fair. I’m OK with that, I’m OK with disapproval for wherever I stand. I support their close to knock maine arsenic overmuch arsenic I support my close to knock them.”

Watch Clooney’s afloat “CBS Mornings” interrogation successful the video below.

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