Joy Behar Is ‘Mad at George Clooney’ for Telling Biden to Drop Out in Op-Ed; Sunny Hostin Agrees: ‘I Don’t Like He Aired This Dirty Laundry to the World’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “The View” co-host Joy Behar has a bone to pick with George Clooney, who made national headlines this week after publishing an op-ed for The New York Times in which he urged Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 race for president against Donald Trump.

The actor argued that Biden has the chance to save democracy by stepping aside as the Democratic nominee for president. “President Biden is fighting right now for his political future,” Behar said on “The View” the day after Clooney’s op-ed was published (via Entertainment Weekly). “George Clooney wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times claiming that after he saw Biden’s condition at the recent fundraiser, he doesn’t think he’s up for the gig.

George Clooney? Couldn’t he tell him that in person, for god’s sakes?” Behar criticized Clooney for failing to mention in his op-ed all of the standout accomplishments that Biden has achieved as president, including his economic track record. “I’m mad at George Clooney right now,” Behar said before joking: “Even though we dated.

I wish!” 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 in the op-ed. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020.