George Clooney calls on Biden to exit presidential race
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Actor George Clooney conceded throughout a Thursday interview that the media failed in its protection of former President Biden’s health and talent to serve.
Clooney advised The New York Instances’ Maureen Dowd that Biden was irresponsible in protecting up his “incapacities,” and added, “the media, in some ways, dropped the ball.”
Reacting to a second when former President Obama led Biden off the stage at a Los Angeles fundraiser in June, Clooney mentioned, “I noticed him for hours a 12 months earlier on the Kennedy Middle, and I noticed somebody a lot much less sharp.” Dowd wrote that the expertise left Clooney “gobsmacked.”
“I’ve at all times favored Joe Biden, and I like him nonetheless,” he added.
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George Clooney mentioned that regardless of urging former President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, “I’ve at all times favored Joe Biden, and I like him nonetheless.” (Anna Moneymaker / Workers | Franco Origlia / Contributor)
Clooney additionally mirrored on why President Donald Trump gained the election, pointing to Biden’s messaging.
“The Biden administration was horrible at explaining that we’re a world economic system, the place we have been really doing higher than all the opposite G7 international locations. They have been unhealthy at telling the story as a result of their messenger was not working at his greatest, to say the least,” he mentioned.
Biden’s staff didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
The long-time liberal actor notably known as for former President Biden to drop out in July, following the previous president’s tough debate efficiency in opposition to Trump.
“It’s devastating to say it, however the Joe Biden I used to be with three weeks in the past on the fundraiser was not the Joe ‘huge F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the identical man all of us witnessed on the debate,” Clooney wrote in a visitor essay for the New York Instances on the time, noting the June 2024 fundraiser in Los Angeles.
After speaking to Clooney for Thursday’s article, Dowd defined, “Folks thought Obama was behind it, however Clooney mentioned he did it regardless of being urged to not.”
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters upon arrival in West Palm Seashore, Florida, February 16, 2025. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
Clooney additionally attacked Trump throughout the interview.
“I imagine that entire concept of the arc of historical past bending towards justice, and I do know it doesn’t really feel that manner proper now,” he advised Dowd of Trump. “I feel there are at all times these pendulum swings. The primary Trump election was, I imagine, a results of eight years of a Black president.”
“No guidelines rely anymore,” Clooney mentioned of Trump. “It’s like letting an toddler stroll throughout the 405 freeway in the midst of the afternoon.”
George Clooney attends a press occasion asserting the entire Broadway forged of “Good Evening, And Good Luck” at The Wintergarden Theatre on February 6, 2025 in New York Metropolis. ((Photograph by Bruce Glikas/WireImage))
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Clooney additionally spoke to Dowd about his new Broadway present, “Good Evening, and Good Luck,” which options Clooney starring as late CBS Information anchor Edward R. Murrow.
Fox Information’ Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.
