President Trump has criticized “second-rate movie star” George Clooney’s look on “60 Minutes,” dismissing the interview as a “total puff piece.”
On Sunday, the 2-time Oscar winner appeared on the information program to advertise his Broadway debut — which sees him painting famend journalist Edward R. Murrow in “Good Night and Good Luck.”
Clooney, 63, additionally spoke about his resolution to drop his help for former president Joe Biden, earlier than taking goal on the Trump administration.
However the interview appeared to depart a foul style in Trump’s mouth, because the POTUS took to Reality Social to set the report straight on his ideas concerning the Hollywood actor.
“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, 78, wrote on his platform.
“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 this was not going to work out too well.”
The president added, “60 Minutes even fraudulently inserted Fake answers into her disastrous interview, aired just before Election Day, in one of the most embarrassing and dishonest events in broadcast history…And now George Clooney again? His press agent should be making a fortune!!!”
Throughout his interview, Clooney shared his ideas on stepping onto the Broadway stage, particularly for a job that delves right into a journalist’s relentless pursuit of fact amid a divisive political panorama.
The actor stated he noticed parallels between the play and the present state of the nation, referencing Trump’s $16 million settlement with ABC Information and ongoing $20 billion lawsuit with CBS.
“When the other three estates fail, when the judiciary and the executive and the legislative branches fail us, the fourth estate has to succeed,” Clooney stated.
“ABC has just settled a lawsuit with the Trump administration. And CBS News is in the process … We’re seeing this idea of using government to scare or fine or use corporations — to make journalists smaller.”
“Governments don’t like the freedom of the press. They never have. And that goes for whether you are a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you’re on. They don’t like the press,” he added.
Clooney was then requested to element his resolution to publish a damning op-ed within the New York Instances, through which he referred to as on Biden to finish his re-election marketing campaign, saying he merely “cannot win.”
“Yeah, I’ll make it kinda easy. I was raised to tell the truth,” Clooney advised Jon Wertheim, referencing his upbringing because the son of a journalist.
“I had seen the president up close for this fundraiser, and I was surprised. And so I feel as if there was a lot of profiles in cowardice in my party through all of that.”
“And I was not proud of that. And I also believed I had to tell the truth,” the life-long Democrat went on, admitting he was “surprised” after operating into Biden at a fundraiser and seeing him “up close.”
“I feel as if there was a lot of profiles and cowardice in my party through all of that, and I was not proud of that and also I believed I had to tell the truth,” the “Gravity” actor added.
“I’ve always liked Joe Biden and I like him still,” Clooney reaffirmed, however admitted that he couldn’t proceed supporting his political marketing campaign in good religion.
On the time, Trump responded to Clooney’s essay on social media, slamming him as a “fake movie actor” who “never came close to making a great movie.”
“What does Clooney know about anything?” the president wrote, partially. “Clooney should get out of politics and go back to television. Movies never really worked for him!!!”
