George Clooney Responds To White House Criticism Of His Acting Ability Following Trade Of War Crimes Charges

There’s worse movies than Batman & Robin.

No other president in U.S. history would care about George Clooney. Trump is such a fool.

>In a statement to Deadline directed at the Trump White House, Clooney said: “Families are losing their loved ones. Children have been incinerated. The world’s economy is on a knife’s edge. This is a time for vigorous debate at the highest levels. Not for infantile name calling. I’ll start. A war crime is alleged ‘when there is intent to physically destroy a nation,’ as defined by the Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute. What is the administration’s defense? [besides calling me a failed actor which I happily agree with having starred in Batman and Robin?].” >Trump said he was postponing by two weeks his threats against Iran as the countries continue talks designed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Clooney was reacting playfully in his statement to Deadline but was deadly serious in his recent public comments. “Some say Donald Trump is fine. But if anyone says he wants to end a civilization, that’s a war crime,” he said in the speech.

Has anyone reminded POTUs that George Clooney had been awarded sexiest man alive and, ahem, POtUs hasn’t even had an honorable mention

Intolerable Cruelty and Burn After Reading alone should shut down anyone criticising Clooney. Struggling to find a similar example of outstanding job performance for this administration.

Clooney: 2 Academy Awards. Trump: 0 Emmy Awards Clooney: Sexiest Man Alive two times. Trump: gives himself fake awards Clooney: $0 hush money paid to p*** actresses. Trump: <$130k hush money paid to p*** actresses Clooney: 0 impeachments. Trump: 2 impeachments

lol Clooney should crash the Batmobile into the White House

Let’s take them both at face value. One accuses the other of being a bad actor. One literally said it would murder a civilisation, and has the tools to do so. The White House believes these to be of equal standing.

This is what the US Government has become; the President insulting an acclaimed actor based on his acting ability entirely because of him having said something critical of the President.

Dude is being called out for War crimes and the response is to not defend their actions but mock his acting career? It could be Tommy Wiseau for f*** sake, and he'd still be right. 

What a timeline we live in. Someone directly accuses the Administration of a War Crime and their response is “No you’re a War Crime”. What’s next from them “My Dad’s bigger than your Dad” If any other nation on Earth was using this rhetoric, invading Sovereign Nations, stealing natural resources then the US would be in there before breakfast forcing a regime change. But when America does it? As for George, he puts his money where his mouth is: George Clooney has earned over $40 million since 2006 as a Nespresso brand ambassador. He famously diverts a significant portion of this income to fund the Satellite Sentinel Project, which uses spy satellites to monitor Sudan, aiming to track atrocities and prevent war crimes by former dictator Omar al-Bashir

Why the Whitehouse (Trump) even responds to any of this is pure childish. Even if he was not hated so bad, people will keep doing it because he is so thin skinned.

Clooney can, at least, act Presidential.

how many acting awards and nominations does george clooney [have](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_George_Clooney)? 190 And how many acting awards does the orange pig have? None But he does have a McDonald's French Fry Certification Pin

Let’s see here, which one and I more upset about… bad acting or war crimes…this is a tough one.

Trump never has any defense of the *actual argument* its always an attack on the character/looks/occupation of the commenter. Ever notice that?

Well, let’s be honest, Trump is certainly well acquainted with war crimes.

How about people stop caring about celebrities think/say and focus more on the experts

The White house retort isn't even clever. "The only war crimes are Clooney's movies and acting". 

I’m glad he is safe in Italy while we deal with this bullshit

no need even to address his insults, he never comes up with anything creative, it's always either they're ugly or "they failed at their job." Failed actor, failed comedian, failed war hero, whatever. It's because those are the things that bother HIM the most, that he's unattractive and a failure.

To be fair, he is just cast really well for his personality and style. Like a lot of modern actors.

Everybody forget about the tomatoes......and their vicious attack.

He got a beej from Ghislaine Maxwell. He knew what was goin on

The WH has become the biggest embarrassment on this planet. Not like this will hurt Clooney's feelings. The man starred in a massive TV show (ER) has been in numerous successful movies, has had one hell of an acting career with couple awards to go with it. Has been called the decider man alive twice, married to a great woman, has lived an extremely great life. Not sure this is going to make him feel too bad about himself.

Don't particularly care what George Clooney has to say (he's an actor, not some political deep thinker), but the response of the Whitehouse seems typically infantile, undignified, and weak. >“The only person committing war crimes is George Clooney for his awful movies and terrible acting ability.” I wouldn't mind if the response showed any real wit. If they'd come up with a real 'zinger' of a riposte I'd concede 'oh, fair play'. But in what possible sense are even *bad* movies (if one thinks Clooney has been in some such - I don't feel qualified to judge such things) "war crimes"? It's just the lowest-common-denominator petulant response - "no, you are".

It s would have been better if he ignored it, and if asked publicly just smirked and walked away. No head shake, no comment.

George knew that Biden is getting lost and didn't rise his voice. Thank you for helping Trump to get elected.