Donald Trump destroys second-rate movie star | Political News

Donald Trump has destroyed George Clooney in a humiliating assault over the actor’s ousting of Joe Biden in final yr’s US election.

The president took goal on the Ocean’s Eleven star, who, in a TV interview, defended his resolution to ask fellow Democrats to have the then-US chief changed earlier than the November poll.

In a chat with America’s ’60 Minutes,’ on Sunday night time Clooney, who has opened up on fatherhood, criticized Trump’s administration and described America as being in “trouble.”

The lifelong Democrat voter, 63, doubled down on being “surprised” by Biden’s mental state.

Within minutes, Trump took to his social media about liberal crybaby Clooney’s feedback, additionally attacking broadcaster CBS.

The president is at present locked in a legal battle with the community, launching a $23 million lawsuit accusing channel bosses of interfering with final yr’s election. CBS has refuted the allegation and filed for the legal matter to finish.

Trump wrote on the Truth Social platform: “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?

“He fought onerous for Sleepy Joe’s election after which, proper after the talk, dumped him like a canine.

“Later, I assume under orders from the Obama camp, pushed all out for ‘Kamala,’ only to soon realise that this was not going to work out too well.

“60 Minutes even fraudulently inserted pretend solutions into her disastrous interview, and simply earlier than Election Day, in a single of essentially the most embarrassing and dishonest occasions in broadcast historical past.”

Clooney spoke on politics during a promotional interview for his Broadway debut in Good Night and Good Luck, which he co-wrote.

He reflected on how the show about the press calling to account the 1950s government McCarthyism movement is similar to 2025’s political landscape.

He stated that the US is in “hassle” under Trump. “We now are at a place the place we have now discovered it’s tougher to discern the reality,” he said. “Facts at the moment are negotiated.

“It is a fight for the ages. It will continue. You see it happening at the LA Times and see it at the Washington Post, for God’s sake.

“Journalism and telling reality to energy must be waged, like warfare is waged. “It doesn’t just happen accidentally. It takes the people saying, ‘We are going to do these stories, and you are going to have to come after us – and that is the way it is.'”

He added: “We are seeing this idea of using government to scare or fine or use corporations to make journalists smaller.

“Governments do not like the liberty of the press. They by no means 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.

“There is a purpose why we constructed freedom of speech into the First Amendment. It is that important to us. It issues to us. Infringing on that’s a very slippery slope.”

Clooney stood by his decision to publicly call for Biden to step away from last year’s presidential run just a few months before voting.

His essay in the New York Times prompted Democrats to push out Biden for Kamala Harris.

When asked if, “Looking back, are you content you probably did it?” he responded, “Yeah, I’ll make it type of simple. I used to be raised to inform the reality.”

“I had seen the president up close at this fundraiser, and I used to be stunned.

“I feel as if there were a lot of profiles and cowardice in my party through all of that. And I was not proud of that and also believed I had to tell the truth.”

He added, “I’ve at all times preferred Joe Biden, and I like him nonetheless.”