Trump Throws A Fit At George Clooney In Sunday Night Rant | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump railed in opposition to George Clooney on Sunday night time after the actor, filmmaker and longtime Democratic donor appeared on “60 Minutes.”

“Why would the now highly discredited 60 Minutes be doing a total ‘puff piece’ on George Clooney, a second rate movie ‘star,’ and failed political pundit,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “He fought hard for Sleepy Joe’s election and then, right after the Debate, dumped him like a dog.”

Clooney wrote an opinion piece in July of final yr urging then-President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race, one among a lot of distinguished figures calling on him to stop after a poor debate efficiency in opposition to Trump.

Biden initially dismissed it as a “bad night,” however Clooney stated his personal dealings with the president at one other occasion had been related.

“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” Clooney wrote in The New York Times. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”

Biden in the end stop the race, and then-Vice President Kamala Harris took over the ticket, which Trump on Sunday night time stated was “under orders” from former President Barack Obama:

Later, I assume beneath orders from the Obama camp, pushed all out for ‘Kamala,’ solely to quickly notice that that was not going to work out to properly. 60 Minutes even fraudulently inserted Fake solutions into her disastrous interview, aired simply earlier than Election Day, in some of the embarrassing and dishonest occasions in broadcast historical past…And now George Clooney once more? His press agent must be making a fortune!!!

Trump’s rant comes as he’s suing “60 Minutes” for $20 billion after claiming the present deceptively edited an interview with Harris throughout final yr’s presidential marketing campaign.

CBS has known as the allegation false and moved to dismiss the go well with as “an affront to the First Amendment.”

Clooney referenced that in his “60 Minutes” interview.

“We’re seeing this idea of using government to scare or fine or use corporations to make journalists smaller,” he stated. “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.”

Clooney is ready to make his Broadway debut subsequent month in a stage model of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” his 2005 movie about TV journalist Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.).

See the complete “60 Minutes” interview beneath: