George Clooney anticipates that President Donald Trump “will be finished” soon.
Speaking to Anderson Cooper in a Wednesday interview with CNN, Clooney confessed that although he worries about being targeted by Trump he believes it’s more important to not cower to fear.
“Everybody worries about it,” Clooney told Cooper. “But if you spend your life worrying about things, then you won‘t do things.”
“We, like everybody, we have a family and we have a life and we try to live and do the things as the best example for our kids,” Clooney, who shares twins Alexander and Ella with wife Amal Clooney, continued. “I want to be able to look my kids in the eye and say where we stood and what we did at certain times in history. And I have no problem with that.”
The actor then argued against the prospect of “Trumpism” lasting beyond the president’s current term, saying that its success largely hinges on Trump’s celebrity status and charisma.
“He’s a celebrity, and he’s the president [of the] United States, and so he has been elected. Duly elected, fair deal. I’m not complaining about that. That’s how it works. That’s how this democracy works,” Clooney said
“But he’s also a celebrity, and he is charming. And to the people who like him, they think he’s funny. To a great many others, they don’t.”
“So when [Trump] is finished—and he will be finished—they’re going to have to go looking for someone who can deliver the message that he delivered with the same kind of charisma, and they don’t have that,” the two-time Oscar winner concluded.
Clooney, an outspoken Democrat, has a storied rivalry with Trump that has heated up over the past year.
In a July 2024 Truth Social post, the president responded to an op-ed Clooney wrote for The New York Times calling on then-President Joe Biden to step down from the 2024 presidential ticket, and slammed him as a “fake movie actor”
“So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act,” Trump wrote. “Clooney should get out of politics and go back to television. Movies never really worked for him!!!”
The president criticized Clooney again in another Truth Social post in March, calling him a “second rate movie ‘star’” and “failed political pundit.”
