Donald Trump fired back at George Clooney on Truth Social after the Oscar-winning actor published an op-ed for The New York Times in which he urged Joe Biden to step down as the Democratic nominee for president. Clooney is one of several Hollywood names in recent days to call on Biden to drop out of the race against Trump. In his op-ed, Clooney said Biden had saved democracy before and could do so again by stepping aside and giving Democrats a better shot at beating Trump.
“So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act,” Trump posted in reaction to the actor’s op-ed. “He’s turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are.”
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“What does Clooney know about anything?” Trump asked. “He uses the Democrat ‘talking point’ that Biden, the WORST President in the history of the United States, has ‘saved our Democracy.’ No, Crooked Joe was the one who WEAPONIZED Law Enforcement against his political Opponent, who created the most devastating INFLATION in the history of our Country, who Embarrassed our Nation in Afghanistan, and whose crazy Open Border Policy has allowed millions of people to illegally pour into our Country, many from prisons and mental institutions. Crooked Joe Biden didn’t save our Democracy, he brought our Democracy to its knees. Clooney should get out of politics and go back to television. Movies never really worked for him!!!”
Clooney, who co-hosted a huge Hollywood fundraiser for Biden in June that raised a record $28 million, published his op-ed following Biden’s disastrous performance in the first 2024 presidential debate against Trump.
“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” Clooney observed. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
Clooney wrote that Democrats have been “all so terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term that we’ve opted to ignore every warning sign” when it comes to Biden’s aging.
“This is about age. Nothing more,” Clooney added. “But also nothing that can be reversed. We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate. This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.”
“Joe Biden is a hero; he saved democracy in 2020. We need him to do it again in 2024,” Clooney concluded.
Biden has maintained in the days after the debate that he has no intention of dropping out of the race. He’s scheduled to sit down for a one-on-one interview with NBC News and Lester Holt on Monday, July 15.
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