George Clooney Criticizes Media For ‘Hiding’ Joe Biden’s ‘Incapacities’ During 2024 Campaign, Calls Trump ‘An Infant’

Actor George Clooney blamed the media for not accurately reporting former President Joe Biden’s mental capacities.

Last July, Clooney, one of Biden’s biggest fundraisers, wrote an op-ed that questioned Biden’s mental acuity and petitioned him to drop his reelection campaign. He wrote at the time, “The one battle [Biden] cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”

In an interview with The New York Times this week, Clooney shared his thoughts on the media’s coverage of Biden during the 2024 campaign season.

He clarified, “I’ve always liked Joe Biden, and I like him still,” but further asserted that Biden and the media had unjustly been “hiding his incapacities,” and, “the media, in many ways, dropped the ball.”

At the time when Clooney’s op-ed was published, Donald Trump took to social media to express his disdain for the actor’s comments, declaring, “Clooney should get out of politics and go back to television, movies never really worked for him.”

Taking shots at Trump in The Times interview, Clooney remarked that Trump tries to relate to Americans through a “man of the people” narrative, despite his unrelatable wealth and status.

He expressed, “All I can say on the subject is: He’s got a star on the Hollywood Boulevard. I don’t…the part of this that’s crazy is that he’s the ‘man of the people.’ I cut tobacco for three dollars an hour and sold insurance door-to-door and was uninsured for ten years in my early career.”

Speaking on Trump, Clooney declared, “No rules count anymore…It’s like letting an infant walk across the 405 freeway in the middle of the afternoon.”

While the call for Biden to step down from his campaign was widely agreed upon by most Democrats, Kamala Harris’ loss has caused further soul searching. Biden himself has said he believes that had he stayed in the race, he would have won.