George Clooney is doubling down on his decision last year to stop supporting Joe Biden during the presidential election, prompting a brutal response by Donald Trump.
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00:00He's gone after Greenland, he's gone after the Panama Canal, but now President Donald
00:07Trump is focusing all of his attention, all of his wrath, on...
00:11Facts are now negotiated.
00:12George?
00:13Yes, George.
00:14So George Clooney was on 60 Minutes and he trashed Donald Trump, sort of slightly, in
00:21where we are in the current political landscape.
00:24While promoting his Broadway play Good Night and Good Luck about journalist Edward R. Murrow,
00:28a fierce critic of Senator Joe McCarthy and the Red Scare of the 1950s, his reporting
00:33helped bring down McCarthy.
00:35Although McCarthy would try to pose things, he'd show up with a blank piece of paper and
00:38say, I've got a list of names, okay.
00:40So that was his version of fake news.
00:44We now are at a place where we've found that it's harder and harder and harder to discern
00:50the truth.
00:51If you speak out against the president, you're basically getting shut down and the media
00:54is the last line of defense.
00:55That was his whole point, right?
00:56I think what he's saying is we are right up against that division between autocracy
01:02and democracy.
01:03And Donald Trump took notice.
01:04He called George a second-rate movie star, quote-unquote, and a failed political pundit.
01:10He's just unbelievable.
01:11It is hard for Donald Trump to come up with an insult about George Clooney.
01:15It's kind of challenging.
01:16And if you listen close, you'll probably hear George Clooney not given a damn.
01:20But how about this play, huh?
01:21It's weird to go on 60 Minutes to promote a Broadway show.
01:24Oh my God, it's huge.
01:26The crowds outside the theater every night for a show, massive.
01:28And let me guess, the average age is a 60 Minutes watcher?
01:31When they hear tick, tick, tick, they mean that's me.