Former President Trump went after George Clooney on Wednesday night after the actor wrote an op-ed pressuring President Biden to leave the race for the White House.
“So now fake movie star George Clooney, who never came close to making a big movie, is coming onto the scene,” Trump said. in a post in Social Truth. “He 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,” the former president added later in the post. “Movies never worked for him!!!”
His comments come after the Hollywood star wrote in a New York Times articlepublished Wednesday, that the president’s party “will not win in November with this president.”
Clooney, a longtime Democrat and the president’s top fundraiser, called Biden a “friend” but said the incumbent had changed.
“I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As vice president and as president. I consider him a friend and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals,” he wrote. “In the last four years, he has won many of the battles he has faced.”
“But the only battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can,” Clooney continued. “It’s devastating to say this, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the “big deal” Joe Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
He later added that while Biden stepping aside at this point in the election would be “messy,” it would be worth it.
“Joe Biden is a hero; he saved democracy in 2020,” Clooney wrote. “We need him to do it again in 2024.”
Trump rejected the actor’s characterization of Biden, leaning instead on his common rhetoric.
“He uses the Democratic ‘talking point’ that Biden, the WORST president in US history, ‘saved our democracy,'” the presumptive Republican nominee posted. “No, Crooked Joe was the one who ARMED law enforcement against his political opponent, who created the most devastating INFLATION in our country’s history, who shamed our nation in Afghanistan, and whose crazy open borders policy allowed millions of people to illegally pour into our country, many of them coming from prisons and psychiatric institutions.”
“Crooked Joe Biden didn’t save our democracy, he brought our democracy to its knees,” he added.
Clooney is just one of a growing list of Democrats who have publicly called on the president to drop out of the race after a difficult presidential debate performance last month against Trump. On stage, Biden stumbled over his words, had a hoarse voice and lacked energy, raising concerns about his age, mental fitness and ability to not only defeat Trump in November but also serve four more years.
The White House and Biden’s allies have insisted that the incumbent is not abandoning the race.
Although Trump mocked Biden’s performance during the debate, he also encouraged him to stay the course.
Following the “Ticket to Paradise” star’s lead, actor Michael Douglas said he was also “deeply concerned” about Biden’s campaign. During a Wednesday appearance on ABC’s “The View,” Douglas called the president a “wonderful guy” but said Clooney’s pressure for him to step aside was “valid.”
A representative for Clooney did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment.
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