{"id":24715,"date":"2025-03-25T00:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T00:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=24715"},"modified":"2025-03-25T00:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T00:46:29","slug":"donald-trump-responds-to-slam-george-clooney-for-speaking-out-against-him-in-recent-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=24715","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump responds to slam George Clooney for speaking out against him in recent interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump isn’t very happy with George Clooney after the actor touched on the ‘fake news’ narrative pedalled by the Republican.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 63-year-old has been a vocal supporter of the Democratic party. In July last year, he wrote an 870-word op-ed\u00a0for<\/a>\u00a0The New York Times, describing himself as a ‘lifelong Democrat’ and calling for then-President\u00a0Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0to opt out of running for a second term to give the Democratic Party a better chance at beating\u00a0Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, that never materialized as the 78-year-old won against Biden’s replacement, and vice-president at the time,\u00a0Kamala Harris<\/a>\u00a0at the polls.<\/p>\n

Now, after sitting down with CBS’\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0to talk about his Broadway debut\u00a0Good Night, and Good Luck,<\/em>\u00a0he spoke of the chilling times ahead for the media under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

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George Clooney on Broadway for ‘Good Night, And Good Luck’ (Bruce Glikas\/WireImage)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“We’re seeing this idea of using government to scare or fine or use corporations to make journalists smaller,” Clooney explained to the news station.<\/p>\n

“Governments don’t like the freedom of the press they never have and that goes for whether you are a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you’re on they don’t like the press.”<\/p>\n

He referred to Trump’s prior lawsuits last year against media publications like ABC News, with the outlet agreeing to pay the POTUS $15 million in a defamation suit after ABC’s news anchor, George Stephanopoulos, made the false claim that Trump had been found ‘liable for rape’ in an interview, the BBC\u00a0reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0businessman<\/a>\u00a0also filed a $20 billion lawsuit against CBS on the unfounded allegation that\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>\u00a0had engaged in ‘election and voter interference’ by editing an interview with Harris to supposedly make him look bad.<\/p>\n

In response, CBS said the plantiff’s ‘seek to punish a news organization for constitutionally protected editorial judgments they do not like’ and lodged a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, all while Paramount – the owner of CBS – attempts to close a merger deal which requires approval from the Trump appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission.<\/p>\n

Hitting back at the 60-minute segment on Clooney, Trump took to his\u00a0social media<\/a>\u00a0account on Truth Social, writing: “Why would the now highly discredited 60 Minutes be doing a total ‘puff piece’ on George Clooney, a second rate movie ‘star,’ and failed\u00a0political<\/a>\u00a0pundit.<\/p>\n

“He fought hard for Sleepy Joe\u2019s election and then, right after the Debate, dumped him like a\u00a0dog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Later, I assume under orders from the Obama camp, pushed all out for ‘Kamala,’ only to soon realize that that was not going to work out to well.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump has fumed at George Clooney following his interview with 60 Minutes (MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“60 Minutes even fraudulently inserted Fake answers into her disastrous interview, aired just before\u00a0Election Day<\/a>, in one of the most embarrassing and dishonest events in broadcast\u00a0history<\/a>\u2026 And now George Clooney again? His press agent should be making a fortune!!!”<\/p>\n

Clooney’s Broadway production is an adaption of his 2005 drama of the same name, which follows how Senator Joseph McCarthy sensationalized the threat of communism and attempted to fear-monger the public – but for pioneering reporter Edward R. Murrow who exposed him.<\/p>\n

Speaking on to\u00a060 Minutes<\/em>, he compared how occurs in the play differs to current events, saying: “Here’s where I would tell you where we differ from what Murrow was doing, although McCarthy would try to pose things that he’d show up a blank piece of paper and say I’ve got a list of names, okay so it was that was his version of fake news.<\/p>\n

“We now are at a place where we found that it’s harder, and harder, and harder to discern the truth – facts are now negotiated.”<\/p>\n

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