George Clooney Fires Back at Trump’s New Year’s Eve Insults
The star said he looks forward to making America great again in the 2026 midterms.
George Clooney has fired back at Donald Trump after the president posted a nasty rant about the star actor and his wife on New Year’s Eve.
Clooney, 64, told Deadline: “I totally agree with the current president. We have to make America great again. We’ll start in November.”

George Clooney has said he used to be friendly with Donald Trump—before his political rise.
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Clooney is referring to the 2026 midterms, which are now just 11 months away—an election that early polls suggest will knock Republicans out of power in Congress, where they currently hold slim majorities in the House and Senate.
The actor’s response was much more subtle than the 79-year-old Trump’s fiery post to Truth Social.
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“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,” Trump posted in part.

President Donald Trump delivers remarks during the medal presentation ceremony for the 2025 Kennedy Center Honorees in the Oval Office of the White House on December 06, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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The president added, “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!”
In a new interview with Variety, Clooney revealed that he had been on friendly terms with Trump years before his rise to political power.
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“I knew him very well,” Clooney said. “He used to call me a lot, and he tried to help me get into a hospital once to see a back surgeon. I’d see him out at clubs and at restaurants. He’s a big goofball. Well, he was. That all changed.”
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