BREAKING: Hollywood superstar George Clooney claps back at Donald Trump for calling him a "a second rate movie star" and "failed political pundit" for daring to challenge his MAGA fascism.
Trump is punching way above his intellectual weight-class here...
"I don't care. I mean I've known Donald Trump for a long time," Clooney told CBS's Gayle King. "You know my job is not to please the President of the United States. My job is to try and tell the truth when I can and when I have the opportunity."
"And look I'm well aware of the idea that people will not like that, there will be people that criticize that, and there's certainly people... You know Elon Musk has, you know, weighed in every one and a while," he added.
"That's their right to do it and it's my right to say the other side," said Clooney.
Trump launched his attack on the movie star last month after Clooney appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes and defended journalists against the onslaught of free-speech authoritarians.
"When the other three estates fail, when the judiciary and the executive and the legislative branches fail us, the fourth estate has to succeed," Clooney said.
"ABC has just settled a lawsuit with the Trump administration. And CBS News is in the process," he added. "We’re seeing this idea of using government to scare or fine or use corporations, to make journalists smaller."
As to be expected, Trump lashed out on Truth Social—
"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. Later, I assume under orders from the Obama camp, pushed all out for ‘Kamala,’ only to soon realize that was not going to work out too well," he went on.
"’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!!!" he added.
Trump's meltdown was hardly surprising because there is nothing this man cares more about than the opinions of celebrities. He's a wannabe Hollywood star at heart and his resentment comes pouring out every time he attacks a real star.
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