“My Job is not to full the president of the United States,” The Oscar-Winner Said After the President Called Him a “Second Rate Movie 'Star,' and Failed Political Pundit”
George Clooney Does Not Seem to Be Thinking About Donald Trump As Much As Donald Trump Seems to Be Thinking About George Clooney. The Actor Dismissed The President's Recent Criticism of Him On CBS MorningsSaying, “I Don't Care. I'm Known Donald Trump for A Long Time. My Job is not to please the president of the United States.”
Clooney Continued: “My Job is to Try and Tell the Truth when I can and when I have the opportunity. I am well aware of the idea that people will not like that, there will be People that criticize that. And there's certain people in Their right to do it, and It's my right to say the other side. ”
Trump Lashed Out at the Oscar-Winner on Truth Social Last Month-Calling Him a “Second Rate Movie 'Star,' and Failed Political Pundit”-After Clooney Appered on 60 minutes to Promotes The Broadway Adaptation of Good night, and good luck. The Play (Based on the 2006 Movie of the Same Name) Tells The Story of Journalist Edward R. Murrow, WHO Political and Corporate Council Council to Report on Joseph McCarthy and His Anti-Communist Witch Hunts in the 1950S.
On 60 minutesClooney Pointedly Spoke About Trump's Efforts to Stifle The Media, Both Through Verbal Attacks and a Recent Spate of Lawsuits. He noted abc news' decision to settle a defamation lawsuit with the trump administration, as well as the $ 20 billion suit trump has filed against cbs news, claiming 60 minutes Engaged in Element Interference by Editing An Interview with Kamala Harris To Make Her Look Good. (CBS HAS Denied the claim and Asked a Judge to Dismiss the Suit.)
“We're Seeing this Idea of Using Government to Scare or, Fine, or Use Corporations to make Journalists Lonler,” Clooney Said. “Governments Don't Like the Freedom of the Press. They Never Have. And that Goes for When you are a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you're on. They don't like the press.”