George Clooney pays Donald Trump a rare compliment as actor makes prediction about GOP's future

Daily Mail​

23-04-2025

George Clooney gave Donald Trump a rare compliment while making a bold prediction about the Republican Party 's future in a new interview.
The longtime Democrat commended Trump's charisma despite the pair's longtime feud.
Trump criticized the 63-year-old Oscar-winning actor for his New York Times opinion piece calling for Joe Biden to withdraw as the Democratic presidential nominee last year.
'So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act,' Trump said at the time. 'He's turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are.'
During a recent interview Broadway legend Patti LuPone for Variety's 'Actors on Actors: Broadway' series, Clooney complimented Trump and acknowledged his charm.
'[Republicans] don't have anybody that's as charismatic as him. He's charismatic. There's no taking that away from him. He's a television star,' Clooney said.
Clooney predicted that Trump will 'go away' while discussing the future of the GOP and compared him to other political figures.
'We've done this before. From President Jackson to [Joseph] McCarthy to this, the authoritarian, the demagogue, it goes away when they go away. And he will go away,' he said.
Trump slammed the long-time Democrat Oscar winner as a 'fake movie actor' for his New York Times opinion piece calling for Joe Biden to withdraw from the race last year
'We've been in much worse places. The only thing that's different is the source of information and how much and how many different sources. It's the only thing that's different.
'But it's not nearly as violent, even though it feels violent. It's not nearly as hopeless as it was at that moment in time.'
In March, Trump slammed Clooney as a 'second rate movie star' as he hit out at the Hollywood legend for comments he made on 60 Minutes.
Clooney spoke about his decision to drop his support for Biden - accusing the Democratic Party of 'cowardice' and covering up the ex-president's ailing health while claiming he was forced to 'tell the truth' in a bombshell op-ed calling for him to step down.
The president quickly responded on Truth Social to blast Clooney and the role he played in Biden's demise.
'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,' he wrote.
Clooney, who has been out promoting his Broadway debut as renowned journalist Edward R Murrow in Good Night and Good Luck, told CBS Mornings he is unphased by Trump's criticism of him.
'I don't care,' Clooney said. 'I've known Donald Trump for a long time. My job is not to please the President of the United States. 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… people will criticize that. Elon Musk has weighed in [about me]. That is their right. It's my right to say the other side.'
Clooney, who in June last year raised $30million at a fundraiser for Biden's 2024 campaign, is largely credited as being the nail in the coffin to Biden dropping his re-election bid.
CNN recently asked the Oscar-winner who he thought should lead the Democrats going forward.
'There's one person in particular I think is spectacular,' he said, before singling out Maryland Governor Moore, who he says is 'levitating above' the rest.
'I think he is a guy that handled this tragedy in Baltimore beautifully. He's two tours of active duty in Afghanistan. He speaks sort of beautifully, he's smart. He's a proper leader.'
Clooney is referring to Baltimore's Key Bridge collapse in early 2024 which killed six maintenance workers.
'I like him a lot, I think he's someone we could all fall in behind,' Clooney added.