In a raging post on Truth Social Wednesday evening, former President Donald Trump launched a scathing attack on Hollywood actor George Clooney for his recent New York Times op-ed urging President Joe Biden not to seek reelection.
Trump derided Clooney as a “fake movie actor” who has “never came close to making a great movie.” He accused Clooney of turning on Biden, whom he referred to as “Crooked Joe,” likening them both to rats.
“So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act,” the presumptive GOP nominee wrote. “He’s turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are. What does Clooney know about anything?”
Trump also questioned Clooney’s credentials in political commentary, suggesting he should stick to television and leave politics alone.
“Clooney should get out of politics and go back to television,” Trump said in the post. “Movies never really worked for him!!!”
Clooney’s op-ed, published the same day, criticized Biden’s prospects for the upcoming election, asserting that the Democratic Party faces an uphill battle with him as the nominee. While acknowledging Biden as a friend and past champion, Clooney lamented what he described as a noticeable decline in the president’s effectiveness over recent years.
“I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals,” he wrote. “In the last four years, he’s won many of the battles he’s faced.”
“But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can,” Clooney continued. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
He later added that while Biden stepping aside at this point in the election would be “messy,” it would be worth it.
“Joe Biden is a hero; he saved democracy in 2020,” Clooney wrote. “We need him to do it again in 2024.”
Trump vehemently rejected Clooney’s critique of Biden, pointing out what he sees as the president’s failures in office. He disputed claims that Biden had saved democracy, instead blaming him for alleged abuses of law enforcement, economic troubles, and foreign policy mishaps.
“He uses the Democrat ‘talking point’ that Biden, the WORST President in the history of the United States, has ‘saved our Democracy,’” Trump posted. “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.”
