George Clooney snarls back at Donald Trump over criticism on French move

Hollywood star George Clooney and wife Amal’s move to accept French citizenship attracted harsh words from US President Donald Trump, but the ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ star didn't mince his words either as he responded.

George Clooney, talking to The Hollywood Reporter, said that he agreed with Trump's idea of ‘Make America Great Again’, Clooney said, “We will start doing that in November.”

Clooney was referring to Midterm elections in the US, due November 2026.

Midterm elections are the general elections held at the midpoint of a president’s four-year term, however, it doesn't challenge the presidency directly.

They are about the 435 seats in the US House of Representatives, and 33 or 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate.

On Clooney accepting French citizenship, Trump, taking to his social media ‘Trump Social’, had said, “Good News! George and Amal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France which is, sadly, in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration, much like we had under Sleepy Joe Biden.”

“Remember when Clooney, after the now infamous debate, dumped Joe during a fundraiser, only to go onto the side of another stellar candidate, Jamala(K!), who is now fighting it out with the worst governor in the Country, including Tim Waltz, Gavin Newscum, for who is going to lead the Democrats to their future defeat,” Trump jibed.

Calling Clooney an ‘an average guy’, he said, “Clooney got more publicity for politics than he did for his very few, and totally mediocre, movies. He wasn’t a movie star at all, he was just an average guy who complained, constantly, about common sense in politics. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Clooney is not new to making headlines related to politics. Last year, the actor-filmmaker shared that he had no regrets about insisting that former president Joe Biden bow out of the 2024 presidential election, reported ‘Variety’.

However, in hindsight, he felt that it was a “mistake” to have Kamala Harris step in for Biden as the democratic nominee. 

“We had a chance. I wanted there to be, as I wrote in the op-ed, a primary. Let’s battle-test this quickly and get it up and going. I think the mistake with it being Kamala is she had to run against her own record. It’s very hard to do if the point of running is to say, ‘I’m not that person’,” he had said.

He added, “It’s hard to do, and so she was given a very tough task. I think it was a mistake, quite honestly. But we are where we are. We were gonna lose more House seats, they say. So I don’t know. To not do it would be to say, ‘I’m not gonna tell the truth’”.

(with inputs from syndicated feed)