Donald Trump certainly loves to feud with Hollywood celebrities, and he’s renewed his spat with George Clooney.
Clooney has long been outspoken about political matters. In the summer of 2024, he wrote a New York Times op-ed calling on then-President Biden to drop out of the presidential race. This helped bring about Biden’s decision not to seek a second term weeks later. Clooney’s reasoning was based on his experience at a fundraiser with Biden.
Of all the many political interventions by celebrities in the 2024 race, including everyone from Taylor Swift to Lady Gaga endorsing Kamala Harris, Clooney’s op-ed may have been the only one that made a difference in the race.
Around the same time, Donald Trump denounced Clooney as a “fake movie actor, who should get out of politics and go back to TV.”
George Clooney is making his Broadway debut in @goodnightbwy, which depicts the conflict between Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy that played out on CBS in 1954.
Clooney told @gayleking about the responsibility he feels speaking Murrow’s words — and the importance of… pic.twitter.com/0bInhvi8aZ
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) April 21, 2025
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Clooney has been giving interviews this week to promote a new Broadway version of his film Good Night and Good Luck, in which he is making his Broadway debut. In most of those interviews, politics has come up. That included a recent appearance on CBS This Morning.
“I don’t care,” the actor said on the show, per Variety. “I’ve known Donald Trump for a long time. My job is not to please the President of the United States. My job is to try and tell the truth when I can and when I have the opportunity. I am well aware of the idea that people will not like that. … People will criticize that.”
Last week, Clooney appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and called it his “civic duty” to urge Biden out of the race last year.
“I don’t know if it was brave,” Clooney said in the Kimmel interview, per Variety. “It was a civic duty because I found that people on my side of the street — you know, I’m a Democrat in Kentucky so I get it — when I saw people on my side of the street not telling the truth I thought that was time to… some people [are mad], sure. That’s OK, you know, listen, the idea of freedom of speech is you can’t demand freedom of speech and then say, ‘But don’t say bad things about me.‘”
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