Former President Donald Trump criticized George Clooney for praising President Biden in the same widely discussed op-ed the actor wrote this week calling for Mr. Biden to step aside in the presidential race.
“So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act. He’s turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are. What does Clooney know about anything?” Mr. Trump wrote in a Truth Social post late Wednesday.
His comments come after Mr. Clooney’s op-ed ran in The New York Times on Wednesday. In the piece, Mr. Clooney, a lifelong Democrat, said the 81-year-old Mr. Biden isn’t the same man he once was, and it’s time for him to let someone else take over. Hollywood’s liberal entertainment community has long been a major financial resource for Mr. Biden and the Democratic Party.
“I love Joe Biden,” Mr. Clooney wrote, “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. In the last four years, he’s won many of the battles he’s faced.”
“But the one battle he cannot win,” the actor continued, “is the fight against time. None of us can.”
The actor just last month helped the president throw a record-breaking fundraiser.
“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 wrote. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed” in Mr. Biden’s shaky performance at his debate with Mr. Trump in Atlanta last month that set off alarm bells throughout the party faithful.
Mr. Trump railed against Mr. Clooney’s description of the president.
“He uses the Democrat ‘talking point’ that Biden, the WORST President in the history of the United States, has ‘saved our Democracy,’” Mr. Trump wrote. “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.”
“Crooked Joe Biden didn’t save our Democracy, he brought our Democracy to its knees,” he said.
Mr. Trump wrote that Mr. Clooney “should get out of politics and go back to television. Movies never really worked for him!!!”
Mr. Clooney, who has been nominated for eight Oscars as an actor, director and producer and won two, is just one of the growing number of Democrats calling on Mr. Biden to drop out and let another Democrat jump on the ticket. The president and his campaign have maintained that he will not leave the race.
The Washington Times has reached out to Mr. Clooney’s publicist for comment.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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