Trump shreds 'rat' George Clooney for dumping Biden: 'Go back to television'
'So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act'
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Former President Donald Trump has viciously laid into George Clooney after the actor called on Joe Biden to exit the 2024 election.
On Wednesday, the Oscar winner wrote a New York Times opinion piece in which he implored the 81-year-old Democratic leader to step aside after a disastrous appearance during a debate against Trump last month.
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Stumbling and mumbling throughout, Biden’s performance set off alarm bells among Democrats. Clooney’s pleas came after he supported him in June at a glitzy fundraiser in Los Angeles.
“We are not going to win in November with this president,” Clooney bluntly wrote Wednesday. “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.”
But Biden has gotten too old to handle the daily rigors of the job, he continued.
“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 fundraiser 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.”
As the column made headlines, Trump put Clooney on blast, responding to the piece via his Truth Social social media platform, writing, “So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act. He’s turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are.”
The former president continued, lashing out at Clooney’s claim that Biden “saved our democracy.”
“No, Crooked Joe was the one who WEAPONIZED Law Enforcement against his political Opponent, who created the most devastating INFLATION in the history of our Country, who Embarrassed our Nation in Afghanistan, and whose crazy Open Border Policy has allowed millions of people to illegally pour into our Country, many from prisons and mental institutions,” Trump seethed. “Crooked Joe Biden didn’t save our Democracy, he brought our Democracy to its knees.”
Trump concluded his message, writing: “Clooney should get out of politics and go back to television. Movies never really worked for him!!!”
In a separate post, Trump shared an edited clip featuring Clooney in a scene from Up in the Air “firing” a confused-looking Biden, who increasingly looks to be on the outside looking in this November.
“So although I wish I were here with better news, the fact is you and I are sitting here today because this will be your last week of employment,” Clooney’s character from the 2009 movie says in the snippet posted by Trump. It then cuts to footage of a confused looking Biden during his interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos last week.
“This is not an assessment of your productivity,” Clooney’s corporate henchman continues. “Try not to take this personal.”
In his guest column, which Piers Morgan called “a lethal friendly fire shot in the back,” Clooney urged Democrats to move quickly to select a new candidate at next month’s convention and he encouraged the party’s most well-known names — including Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi — to tell Biden he needs to drop out of the election.
Biden has maintained he’s not dropping out of the race, but his re-election bid hit a speed bump Thursday when the New York Times reported that some of the president’s advisers have discussed ways to convince him to step down as the nominee.
Vice President Kamala Harris also stepped up her attacks on Trump, signaling she could be ready to step into the driver’s seat if asked.
The Times’ editorial board also implored Biden to call it quits, saying he was “embarrassing himself.”
“From the grass roots to the highest levels of the party, Democrats who want to defeat Mr. Trump in November should speak plainly to Mr. Biden,” the editorial board wrote Monday. “They need to tell him that his defiance threatens to hand victory to Mr. Trump.”
The abandonment of Biden is reaching a fever pitch this week, with author Stephen King, filmmaker Rob Reiner, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof all telling the lifelong politician he needs to pack it in.
Biden supporter Michael Douglas admitted he was “deeply concerned” about the president’s chances against Trump.
“This just happens to be one of these elections that is just so crucial, and it’s really hard,” Douglas said.
When he was asked on The View about Clooney’s article, Douglas said his fellow actor raised “a valid point.”
“I mean, I’m deeply, deeply concerned. I mean especially, it’s difficult because the Democrats have a big bench. I mean, they’ve got a lot of heavy hitters … A lot of talent,” he said.
Douglas said that Biden’s age isn’t of a concern to him right now, but he worried about his ability to serve out a full second term.
“I don’t worry necessarily today or tomorrow, but a year down the line, I worry. I am concerned,” he said.
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In his column, Clooney named several potential replacements, including Vice President Harris and Govs. Wes Moore of Maryland, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Gavin Newsom of California, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois and Kentucky’s Andy Beshear.
Meanwhile, Trump is enjoying watching Biden’s freefall.
In a leaked video clip, obtained by the Daily Beast and shared to X last week, the 78-year-old Trump was seen sitting in a golf cart as he brutally dismissed Biden’s chances of re-election this fall.
“We kicked that old, broken down pile of crap,” Trump said assessing his victory over his rival. “He’s a bad guy.”
At a rally at his golf course in south Florida this week, Trump went a step further, challenging Biden to a faceoff on the links in an event he promised would rival the Masters in TV ratings.
“I’m also officially challenging crooked Joe to an 18-hole golf match right here on Doral’s Blue Monster, considered one of the greatest tournament golf courses anywhere in the world, one of the great courses of the world,” Trump said Tuesday. “And I will even give Joe Biden 10 strokes a side. Ten strokes, that’s a lot. That means 20 strokes, in case you don’t play golf. And if he wins, I will give the charity of his choice, any charity of his choice, $1 million. And I’ll bet you he doesn’t take the offer.”
Biden’s spokesperson, James Singer, meekly fired back saying that the president “doesn’t have time for Donald Trump’s weird antics.”
But Trump couldn’t stop finding new material to mine for his comedic jabs.
During Thursday night’s anticipated news conference, when Biden was asked about Harris’ fitness to lead in his absence, he replied: “Look, I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president if I think she’s not qualified to be president.”
Trump quickly pounced on the comment, responding on Truth Social, “Crooked Joe begins his ‘Big Boy’ Press Conference with, ‘I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, though I think she was not qualified to be president.’ Great job, Joe!”
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