Donald Trump lashed out at George Clooney in one of his Truth Social meltdowns on New Year’s Eve. Clooney responded to that and said a great deal more to Rolling Stone about French naturalization, making America Great Again and how the Democrats lost the election by not having a primary — as Clooney said we should have had in his letter to the New York Times asking Joe Biden to step down.
Trump lashed out on Truth Social after the news was revealed earlier this week, writing, “George and Amal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France which is, sadly, in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration, much like we had under Sleepy Joe Biden.”
The president continued, “Remember when Clooney, after the now infamous debate, dumped Joe during a fundraiser, only to go onto the side of another stellar candidate, Jamala(K!), who is now fighting it out with the worst governor in the Country, including Tim Waltz, Gavin Newscum, for who is going to lead the Democrats to their future defeat. Clooney got more publicity for politics than he did for his very few, and totally mediocre, movies. He wasn’t a movie star at all, he was just an average guy who complained, constantly, about common sense in politics. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Clooney replied, “I totally agree with the current president. We have to make America great again. We’ll start in November.” [,,,]
The Clooneys spend a significant portion of their lives in the south of France, where they purchased an estate in 2021. The actor cited France’s privacy laws as a primary draw. “I was worried about raising our kids in L. A., in the culture of Hollywood,” he told Esquire. “I felt like they were never going to get a fair shake at life. France — they kind of don’t give a shit about fame. I don’t want them to be walking around worried about paparazzi. I don’t want them being compared to somebody else’s famous kids.”
Trump and Clooney have traded barbs over the years, and the actor is famously very vocal about politics and the state of the U.S. Last year, he penned a New York Times op-ed calling for former president Joe Biden bow out of the 2024 presidential election. In November, Clooney confirmed that he stood behind the op-ed, but thought it was a mistake for Kamala Harris to step in.
“We had a chance,” he told CBS’ Sunday Morning. “I wanted there to be, as I wrote in the op-ed, a primary. Let’s battle-test this quickly and get it up and going.”
He continued, “I think the mistake with it being Kamala is she had to run against her own record. It’s very hard to do if the point of running is to say, ‘I’m not that person.’ It’s hard to do, and so she was given a very tough task. I think it was a mistake, quite honestly. But we are where we are. We were gonna lose more House seats, they say. So I don’t know. To not do it would be to say, ‘I’m not gonna tell the truth.’”
Hindsight is 20/20. We will never know. I don’t know what a primary at the very last moment would have looked like, other than utter chaos. Joe should have stepped down earlier but earlier, when he made the decision to run, he wasn’t so compromised as he later became.
One thing is certain: that was one of the most painful episodes in our history, Biden being forced to step down at the last minute.
This video is from last year but there’s still food for thought in it.
Drumpf continues whining about someone who’s received more awards than Drumpf could ever hope to win.
Clooney has TWO Oscars to his credit (Best Supporting Actor, for “Syriana” and Best Picture for “Argo” which he co-produced with Ben Affleck and Grant Heslov) and FOUR Golden Globes (two Best Actor awards, one for “O Brother Where Art Thou” and one for “The Descendants,” Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture for “Syriana” and Best Motion Picture, Drama for “Argo”). He also has a special Golden Globe–the Cecil B DeMille Award (given for “outstanding contributions to entertainment”). He also has FOUR Screen Actors Guild awards–out of five nominations–for “Best Ensemble in a Drama Series” for four consecutive years on “ER” (1996 to 1999); two of those years he was also nominated for “Best Actor in a Drama Series” for “ER” (he lost to co-star Anthony Edwards the first time and to Dennis Franz of “NYPD Blue” the second time).
As to the “mediocre movies” bit, Drumpf would KILL (probably someone in Times Square) to have been as “mediocre” at the box office. Clooney’s “Ocean’s” movies (Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen) took in more than $1.1 BILLION worldwide with more than $425 million coming from the US market alone. “The Perfect Storm” took in nearly $330 million worldwide with $182 million from the US market. And then, there was a little film called “Gravity” that raked in more than $773 million worldwide with almost $275 million from the US market. Those 5 films combined for nearly $2.2 billion worldwide and about $882 million from the US (and those 5 films combined cost an estimated $520 million to make).
And, in the areas where Clooney would really make money–as producer or executive producer–the 14 films he produced or co-produced took in nearly $1 billion at the box office worldwide (just over half of that came from the US market) and the 7 films for which he got executive producer credit earned more than $450 million worldwide (and $265 million of that was from the US market). Let’s also remember he gets a cut of money made from selling the rights to TV and cable services and home video sales.
And I will guarantee you that he’s provided far more entertainment to the American public than Drumpf has ever given (hell, Clooney’s performance as Batman in the film “Batman & Robin” is far more entertaining–even just in terms of campiness–than anything Drumpf has done in the last 50 years he’s foisted himself on the American public).
Well George. Maybe you shouldn’t have stuck your nose in and urged Biden to not run. We had what we had and anything else would have been worse.
I’m still a bit pissed at Clooney over the whole debacle. Rob Reiner also wobbled. both came back around. Clooney is still a major player on our side so I let it go, time to move on and he gives a hell of a lot more money than me. as for his films let’s not overlook the small ones like good night and good luck and burn after reading. I refuse to watch ocean’s eleven or any remake of a classic like another Sinatra great the manchurian candidate. sorry but there is no need for it.
Clooney can go fuck himself. And when he’s done so again. And again and again.
As an actor and producer I’ve got mad respect for his work. He even at one time used his fame and talent for social good. However I think somewhere along the line he got delusions of grandeur and hoped like McCarthur he’d be ‘drafted by popular demand’ to political office. Maybe not President but something big like Senator or Governor. That was never going to happen. Still, he had a voice and an ability to both influence AND more importantly raise money so he mattered in that regard.
For whatever reason he felt slighted by Biden. He was connected enough to see others like Pelosi who’s own legacy will I believe be tainted for stabbing Biden in the back decided to get in on the action himself. What ‘might have happened’ on so many fronts will be debated by historians long after we’re all dead and gone. My own view is that since concerns were there early in 2024 if Pelosi and other key Democrats were going to cut Biden off at the knees the time to do it was LONG before the primaries were done.
Waiting until when they did to politically disembowel Biden was plain fucking stupid, despite the debate disaster. As I keep saying Biden proved right after with his masterful presiding over the NATO summit in DC and that prime time press conference he still had plenty of power in his brain housing group. I also keep wondering about the “we should have had a primary” bullshit. How? Just how the hell do you organize and hold what in effect would be a national primary before the convention? It would have been a cluster fuck that would have handed Trump the WH on a silver platter and given the GOP an actual working majority in the House instead of the slim margin they had and managed to hold on to.
It was to me a no-brainer that Biden would quickly anoint Harris to take over and ask yourselves this – how many of the Clooney and Pelosi types put forth a name THEY thought would be better than Harris? I will till the day I die believe the only thing Biden could have done when FORCED out by people who once were friends and allies was to endorse Harris to give her as much time as possible to mount a campaign. She started, to use a baseball metaphor with two strikes against her and hit a mighty shot that almost cleared the fence for a home run. However it was like Wrigley with the wind blowing IN (towards the plate) and was an out, caught on the warning track with the outfielder’s back pressed to the wall. Just needed in the words of famed Cubs announcer Harry Carey ‘one more biscuit for breakfast.’
Clooney, like Pelosi and others should just STFU about 2024. If they want to blame someone they should look in the fucking mirror! The media, having been oh so close to their wet-dream of a brokered convention (no primary would have generated a candidate with a strong majority of delegates) being denied and Harris coalescing so much support so quickly as to have a smooth convention weren’t about to give HER a single fucking break either. Even a MAGA goober could have predicted that one.
So the folks who trashed a good and decent man and a pretty damned good President SHOULD feel guilty as hell. Both for what they did to him and to our country and the free world. It was an even worse version of 2016 and too many Democrats not voting for Hillary for “reasons.” In this case it was a question of if not Harris then “somebody” but no one who forced Biden out went so far as to put their full weight behind their unicorn candidate they were sure was “out there somewhere” and which a primary would magically reveal. I hope they choke on their bullshit for the rest of their lives.
We’ve got a lot to fix and we CAN do it starting this fall. The energy is out there and as Rachel Maddow pointed out a couple of weeks ago activism WORKS. Let’s focus on that and use it as fuel to keep going to more good results. On a final note for those who’ve read my diatribe NBC and MS NOW are the only fairly reliable news outlets left out there. Fox will be Fox and both ABC and CBS are now firmly compromised. CNN more or less is too. That makes blogs like this that highlight storied the major outlets might mention once if at all even more important. For our readers PLEASE share what you see here. We do pure opinion stuff to be sure but most of our articles link to objective information and it will take a grassroots effort to educate the masses.
In a way he’s right – but the way it’s phrased makes it appear he is blaming her personally, and it had nothing to do with her personally. Any woman would have lost, because our loss was due to the misogyny in the Unites States which is the elephant in the room – we will not discuss it, so far too many good people do not realize it exists.