George Clooney Claps Back at Donald Trump Over Claim He’s a ‘Fake Movie Actor’ Who Should ‘Get Out of Politics and Go Back to TV’: ‘I Will if He Does’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director George Clooney has finally responded to Donald Trump‘s attempted takedown of him after he wrote a viral op-ed for The New York Times asking Joe Biden to drop out of the election in order to give the Democratic party a real chance at defeating Trump, who responded in a tirade calling Clooney a “fake movie actor.” “So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act,” Trump posted on Truth Social at the time. “He’s turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are.

What does Clooney know about anything?…Clooney should get out of politics and go back to television. Movies never really worked for him!!!” Jimmy Kimmel read Trump’s reaction to Clooney during their interview on his ABC late night talk show, to which Clooney simply clapped back: “I will if he does.

That’s a trade-off I’d do.” The studio audience roared in approval. Clooney, who co-hosted a huge Hollywood fundraiser for Biden in June that raised a record $28 million, published his op-ed following Biden’s disastrous performance in the first 2024 presidential debate against Trump. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” Clooney wrote. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020.

He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.” “This is about age. Nothing more,” Clooney added. “But also nothing that can be reversed.