George Clooney said he was not concerned about the persistent verbal violence that Donald Trump, after the president called him “false movie actor” on Truth Social.
Addressing Gayle King on the morning of CBS, Clooney said: “I don’t care. I have known Donald Trump for a long time. My job is not to please the President of the United States. My job is to try to tell the truth when I can and when I have the opportunity. I am well aware of the idea that people are not going to like it. ”
He continued: “People will criticize this. Elon Musk weighed (about me). This is their right. It is my right to say the other side.”
Trump’s attacks on Clooney renewed last summer after the latter’s opinion in the New York Times urged Joe Biden to resign for re -election. The actor wrote that Biden could continue with his work favoring democracy by allowing an alternative and a younger Democratic candidate to introduce himself, who could have a greater chance of beat Donald Trump.
“So now, the false film actor George Clooney, who has never almost made a great film, is embarking on the act,” said Trump. “He turned on Croooked Joe as the rats they are both.”
Addressing Jake Tapper of CNN last week, Clooney said he was thinking that he was his “civic duty” to defend an alternative nomine.
“I don’t know if it was courageous,” said Clooney. “It was a civic duty. When I saw people on my side of the street without telling the truth, I thought it was time to do it. ”
Reflecting on the backlash of his article, Clooney said: “The idea of freedom of expression is that you cannot demand freedom of expression and then say:” But do not say bad things about me. “”
He continued: “It’s the business, you have to take a stand if you believe it. Take a stand, then manage the consequences.”
“I have to take that, it’s right,” he concluded. “I agree with that, I agree with the criticisms of the place where I am. I defend their right to criticize myself as much as I defend my right to criticize them. ”
Clooney is currently playing on Broadway in a scenic version of her 2005 Good Night film, and Good Luck, on the conflict between the veteran journalist Edward R Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy, who allegedly alleged that Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated many American institutions, in particular the government, universities and the cinema and television industry.
