Academy Award winner George Clooney is not any Donald Trump fan, however he doesn’t appear too anxious concerning the Queens native’s presidency.
“It’s funny because he’s just a New York beast,” Clooney stated throughout a Selection “Actors on Actors” interview with fellow Broadway star Patti LuPone. “We’ve all known him for 30 years, and he was just a guy chasing women. But whatever. It’s fine. We’re going to get through it. ”
LuPone appeared much less optimistic concerning the state of the nation than Clooney, who reminded her that 1968 noticed the Vietnam Conflict raging uncontrolled, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy and cities being burned by rioters. He stated 2025 is “not nearly as violent.”
In response to the 63-year-old actor, who just lately made his Broadway debut as Edward R. Murrow on the Winter Backyard Theatre’s presentation of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” Trump is a “demagogue” and most considerations folks have along with his administration will go away when he’s not on the world stage.
“He’s charismatic,” Clooney conceded. “There’s no taking that away from him. He’s a television star.”
Clooney provided a equally dismissive tackle “dumb goofball” Trump throughout a 2020 SiriusXM interview with Howard Stern.
“He was the guy that came up to us at the Stone Rose and sat at our table when he wasn’t invited and then he’d say ‘What’s the name of the girl, the waitress, the cocktail waitress?’” Clooney recalled. “He used to be ‘that’ guy.”
Trump final month known as Clooney “a second rate movie ‘star,’ and failed political pundit” in a social media publish.
Whereas Clooney isn’t going to win over many Trump supporters, he could also be even much less fashionable with followers of former President Joe Biden. The previous “E.R.” actor penned a July opinion piece for the New York Occasions calling for the then 81-year-old Democratic chief to finish his reelection bid so a youthful candidate may problem Trump.
“The one battle he cannot win is the fight against time,” Clooney wrote.
Biden dropped out of the race 11 days later. He was changed by former Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Trump defeated in November.
