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(52,131 posts)
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 12:11 PM Mar 2025

How pathetic: Now he goes after George Clooney following the "60 Minutes" story

Donald Trump Calls George Clooney a ‘Second Rate Movie Star’ After Clooney Calls Out the Government for Trying to ‘Make Journalists Smaller’: ‘They Don’t Like the Press’

The actor said on “60 Minutes” that the story’s focus on media responsibility and the clash between journalists and political figures could not be timelier.

“When the other three estates fail, when the judiciary and the executive and the legislative branches fail us, the fourth estate has to succeed,” Clooney said about journalism. “ABC has just settled a lawsuit with the Trump administration. And CBS News is in the process … We’re seeing this idea of using government to scare or fine or use corporations—to make journalists smaller.”

So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act,” Trump posted at the time. “He’s 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. Movies never really worked for him!!!”

Clooney then responded to Trump’s post during an interview on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” by saying: “I will if he does. That’s a trade-off I’d do.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-calls-george-clooney-135233961.html

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How pathetic: Now he goes after George Clooney following the "60 Minutes" story (Original Post) question everything Mar 2025 OP
Dude, poster boy of low self esteem BOSSHOG Mar 2025 #1
The rampant baby can not be criticized without the rump wanting to kill. rich7862 Mar 2025 #2
Baby King lashing out yet again. democrank Mar 2025 #3
Nothing Rebl2 Mar 2025 #30
Well, nominated for 8 Academy Awards, won 2 surfered Mar 2025 #4
Yeah, well, Trump has just won the Men's Championship at his golf course for the umpteenth time, so there's that. TheRickles Mar 2025 #13
Dapper Don..... SergeStorms Mar 2025 #17
trump needs to be encouraged to piss away time and effort on such things. Paladin Mar 2025 #5
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo damn TIRED of Orangeman. calimary Mar 2025 #6
This fact really depressed me to no end question everything Mar 2025 #18
It certainly can be discouraging. But our task is NOT to allow it to be that. calimary Mar 2025 #24
Says the TV reality actor Owens Mar 2025 #7
Clooney redemption tour is in full swing I see. live love laugh Mar 2025 #8
Clooney could win in '28. maxsolomon Mar 2025 #15
Great. You must be very happy with the way things are going then. live love laugh Mar 2025 #20
I'm not. maxsolomon Mar 2025 #23
He is just jealous of how good-looking Clooney is Nictuku Mar 2025 #9
Distraction. Meanwhile the Sec Def is sending war plans bronxiteforever Mar 2025 #10
So Clooney is now in the same category as Meryl Streep, in Dump's tiny little mind. Remember how he couldn't stand her? CTyankee Mar 2025 #11
Not successful?!? angrychair Mar 2025 #12
What is a sad, petty little man PatSeg Mar 2025 #14
"Second Rate Movie Star" SergeStorms Mar 2025 #16
Voight is a well respected actor Johonny Mar 2025 #22
I beg to differ, but..... SergeStorms Mar 2025 #25
It might be a blessing. The more time Fatfuk spends belittling others, Buns_of_Fire Mar 2025 #19
The petty tyrant is simply jealous of Clooney's success La Coliniere Mar 2025 #21
His wife, Amal, is a well respected human rights activist lawyer and knows a thing or two about international law Deuxcents Mar 2025 #27
Nah. Trump is envious of Clooney's good looks. riversedge Mar 2025 #28
Since Clooney was one of the people SocialDemocrat61 Mar 2025 #26
There is that. Polly Hennessey Mar 2025 #29
George Clooney will not keep quiet. milestogo Mar 2025 #31

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
1. Dude, poster boy of low self esteem
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 12:14 PM
Mar 2025

Not half the man of Clooney, couldn’t carry his script. Must lie again and again. Deep down trump knows what he is. And is so sad.

TheRickles

(3,379 posts)
13. Yeah, well, Trump has just won the Men's Championship at his golf course for the umpteenth time, so there's that.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:01 PM
Mar 2025

SergeStorms

(20,584 posts)
17. Dapper Don.....
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:16 PM
Mar 2025

is a legend in his own mind, isn't he?

My Dad taught me that you can learn all you need to know about a man by the way he conducts himself on a golf course. Over my lifetime I've found that advice to be 100% true.

calimary

(90,010 posts)
6. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo damn TIRED of Orangeman.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 02:12 PM
Mar 2025

SICK and Tired.

And we have three-and-a-half years of this shit STILL to endure…

maxsolomon

(38,711 posts)
15. Clooney could win in '28.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:03 PM
Mar 2025

Though I don't think he has any interest.

He doesn't really need redemption for easing Biden out of the race. Although in the end, it couldn't have been much worse of a disaster, that's where it was already heading.

CTyankee

(68,197 posts)
11. So Clooney is now in the same category as Meryl Streep, in Dump's tiny little mind. Remember how he couldn't stand her?
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 02:55 PM
Mar 2025

She gave a speech at the Oscar's that didn't mention his name, but excoriated him for his remarks about people from other countries and people with disabilities that he cruelly mocked. He is on the shit list for people Americans really admire.

angrychair

(12,278 posts)
12. Not successful?!?
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:00 PM
Mar 2025

I mean if you don't count all the awards, one of the most successful movie franchises in history and being voted sexist man alive a million times, sure, I guess.

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
14. What is a sad, petty little man
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:03 PM
Mar 2025

He wears his obvious envy like a pathetic uniform. No subtlety or nuance about the man at all.

SergeStorms

(20,584 posts)
16. "Second Rate Movie Star"
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:12 PM
Mar 2025

Unlike the "First Rate Movie Stars" who support the Orange Infant; Ralph Macchio, Jon Voigt, James Woods. Yeah, Clooney is a real hack compared to those "A listers."

Johonny

(26,173 posts)
22. Voight is a well respected actor
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 04:03 PM
Mar 2025

As well respected as Clooney. He just happens to be nuts.

SergeStorms

(20,584 posts)
25. I beg to differ, but.....
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 05:03 PM
Mar 2025

it's a matter of opinion, I suppose. Personally, I don't think Voight has anywhere near Clooney's talent.

We'll have to agree to disagree. 🙂

Buns_of_Fire

(19,161 posts)
19. It might be a blessing. The more time Fatfuk spends belittling others,
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:40 PM
Mar 2025

it's that much less time he spends screwing up the country (which is why Eloon is there to take up the slack). Most of the people he maligns can best him with half their brain tied behind their back, so they won't really suffer, and it keeps him out of Eric's stash of library paste.

La Coliniere

(1,932 posts)
21. The petty tyrant is simply jealous of Clooney's success
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:57 PM
Mar 2025

as an actor, devoted husband and father, and for his political acumen. He is such a putz.

Deuxcents

(26,912 posts)
27. His wife, Amal, is a well respected human rights activist lawyer and knows a thing or two about international law
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 05:44 PM
Mar 2025

Felon47 isn’t even in the same league and never will be anything but a small man in character and stature and the world knows it.

SocialDemocrat61

(7,634 posts)
26. Since Clooney was one of the people
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 05:25 PM
Mar 2025

who publicly called for Biden to step down last year, he deserves everything he gets.

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