George Clooney fired back at President Donald Trump for calling him “a second rate movie star” and “failed political pundit” on Monday,” saying that he simply wasn’t going to let the insults bother him. “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,” Clooney told CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King. He added that people had a “right” to criticize him, just as he had a “right to say the other side.” Trump insulted the two-time Oscar winner after his interview with 60 Minutes in March, in which he criticized the president. Trump also came after Clooney last year after the actor published an op-ed for The New York Times urging Joe Biden to step down in favor of another Democratic nominee. “Clooney should get out of politics and go back to television. Movies never really worked for him!!!” Trump wrote at the time. Clooney responded in September on Jimmy Kimmel Live! saying, “I will if he does. That’s a trade-off I’d do.” Clooney has been promoting the Broadway play Good Night, and Good Luck about the journalist Edward R. Murrow, who sought to spread the truth during troubling political times in America.
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