President Donald Trump railed against George Clooney on Sunday night after the actor/filmmaker and longtime Democratic donor appeared on “60 Minutes.”
“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,” Trump wrote. “He fought hard for Sleepy Joe’s election and then, right after the Debate, dumped him like a dog.”
Clooney wrote an op-ed in July of last year urging then-President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race, one of a number of prominent figures calling on him to quit after a poor debate performance against Trump.
Biden initially dismissed it as a “bad night,” but Clooney said his own dealings with the president at another event were similar.
“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,” Clooney wrote in the New York Times. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
Biden ultimately quit the race, and then-Vice President Kamala Harris took over the ticket, which Trump on Sunday night said was “under orders” from former President Barack Obama:
“Later, I assume under orders from the Obama camp, pushed all out for ‘Kamala,’ only to soon realize that that was not going to work out to well. 60 Minutes even fraudulently inserted Fake answers into her disastrous interview, aired just before Election Day, in one of the most embarrassing and dishonest events in broadcast history…And now George Clooney again? His press agent should be making a fortune!!!”
Trump’s rant comes as he is suing “60 Minutes” for $20 billion after claiming they deceptively edited an interview with Harris during last year’s presidential campaign.
CBS has called the allegation false and moved to dismiss the suit as “an affront to the First Amendment.”
Clooney referenced that in his “60 Minutes” interview.
“We’re seeing this idea of using government to scare or fine or use corporations to make journalists smaller,” he said. “Governments don’t like the freedom of the press. They never 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.”
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Clooney is set to make his Broadway debut next month in a stage version of “Good Night And Good Luck,” his 2005 film about TV journalist Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.).
See the full “60 Minutes” interview below: