Actor George Clooney claimed in an interview airing Monday that he couldn’t care much less what President Donald Trump thinks of him.
“I don’t care,” Clooney instructed Gayle King on “CBS Mornings” to debate his Broadway debut in “Good Night, and Good Luck,” enjoying CBS Information’ Edward R. Murrow.
“I’ve known Donald Trump for a long time. My job is not to please the President of the United States,” Clooney added.
Trump took to Fact Social to throw shade on Clooney final month after an look on “60 Minutes,” the CBS newsmagazine Trump’s suing over its interview of Kamala Harris in 2024.
“Why would the now highly discredited 60 Minutes be doing a total ‘puff piece’ on George Clooney, a second rate movie ‘star,’ and failed political pundit,” Trump mentioned on Fact Social. “He fought hard for Sleepy Joe’s election and then, right after the Debate, dumped him like a dog. Later, I assume under orders from the Obama camp, pushed all out for ‘Kamala,’ only to soon realize that that was not going to work out too well.”
For his half, nonetheless, Clooney mentioned it isn’t his job to care what Trump’s opinion of him is.
“My job is to try and tell the truth when I can and when I have the opportunity,” Clooney instructed CBS. “I am well aware of the idea that people will not like that… people will criticize that. Elon Musk has weighed in [about me]. That is their right. It’s my right to say the other side.”
Trump additionally known as out Clooney in one other put up on Fact Social on July 10, 2024, calling him a “fake movie actor.”
“George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act,” Trump mentioned. “He’s turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are. What does Clooney know about anything? 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.”
On the identical day, Clooney printed a visitor essay in The New York Occasions calling for Biden to step apart to make method for one more Democratic candidate for president.
“Crooked Joe Biden didn’t save our Democracy, he brought our Democracy to its knees,” Trump added within the July Fact Social put up. “Clooney should get out of politics and go back to television. Movies never really worked for him!!!”
Fox Information Digital reached out to each Clooney and the White Home for remark, however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
