George Clooney has become embroiled in politics again after his op-ed about President Biden, just ahead of the actor’s onscreen reunion with Brad Pitt.
George Clooney has become embroiled in politics ahead of his onscreen reunion with Brad Pitt later this year.
On Wednesday, Clooney penned an op-ed for the New York Times, in which he called on President Biden to step down in the wake of his performance at the presidential debate against Donald Trump last month.
“I love Joe Biden. 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”, Clooney wrote.
“But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. 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 wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
Clooney continued, “We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate. This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and Congress member and governor who I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.”
Last month, Clooney held a star-studded Los Angeles fundraiser for Biden that included Julia Roberts, Barbra Streisand, Jack Black, Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn and Mindy Kaling, per Vanity Fair.
The event raised a record-breaking $30 million dollars, according to the Biden campaign.
A week before the fundraiser, Clooney reportedly called the White House about Biden’s critique of the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeking an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a case that his wife, lawyer Amal Clooney, worked on.
The first reported that the “Ocean’s Eleven” star called Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the president, to push back on Biden’s dismissal of arrest warrants sought by the ICC targeting Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Clooney criticized Trump in his op-ed as well, saying, “We all think Republicans should abandon their nominee now that he’s been convicted of 34 felonies” and called his campaign a “revenge tour.”
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Trump fired back Thursday on Truth Social, mocking Clooney’s film career.
“So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act”, Trump wrote on his social media platform. “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”, he added. “Movies never really worked for him!!!”
Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for Clooney, but they did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Clooney’s foray into politics is far from his first, but it happens to come before his big onscreen reunion with his “Ocean’s Eleven” co-star Brad Pitt.
