Donald Trump has lashed out at George Clooney, claiming the two-time Oscar winner “never came close to making a great movie” after the actor called on Joe Biden to drop out of the race for the White House.
The Republican candidate lashed out at the lifelong Democrat in a series of posts on his Truth Social social media page.
This came after Clooney wrote a damning op-ed in the New York Times claiming the president had “saved democracy” by defeating Trump in 2020, but would have to step aside this time to repeat the feat.
“Crooked Joe Biden did not save our democracy,” Trump raged. “He brought our democracy to its knees. Clooney should quit politics and go back to TV. Movies never did him much good!”
The actor’s dramatic intervention came just three weeks after co-hosting a record-breaking $28 million fundraising event for the president.
Clooney’s dramatic intervention came just three weeks after the actor co-hosted a record-breaking fundraising event for the president alongside Julia Roberts and Barack Obama.
The former president did not hold back and lashed out at the two-time Oscar winner.
But his relationship with the president became strained last month after Biden attacked an attempt by Clooney’s lawyer wife to imprison Israel’s prime minister.
In May, Amal Clooney signed a request by the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor to seek the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu along with Hamas leaders for war crimes, a move the president denounced as “outrageous.”
The actor called the White House to protest after Biden insisted there was “no moral equivalence” between Israel and Hamas and hinted at sanctions against the court that could have led to the deportation of Clooney’s wife from the United States.
On Wednesday, the actor lent his voice to the growing chorus of Democrats calling for the president to step aside in response to his chaotic showing in the first presidential election against Donald Trump.
“I love Joe Biden,” she wrote. “But the one battle he can’t win is the fight against time. None of us can.” It’s devastating to say, but the Joe Biden I stood with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the “big deal” Joe Biden of 2010.
“He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all saw in the debate.”
Trump appears to have grown alarmed at the prospect that Biden might withdraw, and last night also took aim at Nancy Pelosi after the former House speaker expressed only lukewarm support for the president’s ambitions.
“Crazy Nancy Pelosi is a cognitive disaster,” he wrote. “Now she has turned on Crooked Joe.”
But it was Clooney who drew the ire of the former host of reality show The Apprentice.
“Now fake movie star George Clooney, who never came close to making a big movie, is wading into the matter,” he wrote.
“He has turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are.
Trump appears to have grown alarmed at the prospect that Biden might withdraw, and last night also took aim at Nancy Pelosi after the former House speaker expressed only lukewarm support for the president’s ambitions.
Clooney won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Syriana in 2006, and a Best Picture Oscar as one of the producers of Argo in 2012.
The actor and politician, pictured together in 2009, have been friends for years but Clooney has insisted Biden must now step aside to “save democracy”.
Their relationship has cooled since Biden attacked an attempt by Clooney’s lawyer wife, Amal Clooney (pictured), to jail the Israeli prime minister.
“What does Clooney know about any of this? He uses the Democrat “talking point” that Biden, the WORST president in US history, has “saved our democracy.”
‘No, Crooked Joe was the one who used the law as a weapon against his political opponent, who created the most devastating INFLATION in the history of our country.
‘Who brought shame on our nation in Afghanistan and whose insane open border policy has allowed millions of people to enter our country illegally, many of them from prisons and mental institutions.
‘Corrupt Joe Biden didn’t save our democracy, he brought it to its knees.
“Clooney should quit politics and go back to TV. Film has never worked for him!”