George Clooney says CBS and ABC should have told Trump to ‘go f*** yourself’

Well, might be best to start boycotting those networks and convince his friends to cancel movie/tv deals with paramount and anyone involved with them.

But I guess that Hollywood is all talk, no action.

The people who boycott playing at the Kennedy center are way different. I never liked Hamilton, but those broadway guys are built differently!

Kudos to everyone standing up to fascism!

Hey George, you’re a multi-millionaire living in a country where buying policy has been defacto legal for decades. Fund a think tank or SuperPAC focused on getting people elected who will force 1%ers like you to pay their taxes or shove this performative nonsense up your ass and *fuck all of the way off*.

I am so beyond sick of hearing rich neoliberal boomer’s hot takes. You pricks are a *large* part of the problem and have been for *decades*.

Totally agree 100%

Thanks for your input Mr Could-Have-Run-For-President-Instead-Moved-To-France.

When the Clooney family’s move from Hollywood to France to give themselves some peace, and their kids the chance at a normal life it really speaks poorly for how America looks to the rest of the civilized world.

Occasionally Trump comes across a clip of these late night talk show hosts telling jokes at his expense or criticizing him, and because he’s such a fragile, vindictive and malignant narcissist, he has to immediately respond by lashing out on social media like a temperamental child.

Trump is massively insecure and obsessed with his image and ratings. One of his deepest fears is being humiliated and embarrassed; being the butt end of a joke; being a “loser.” This is why he views life as a zero-sum game; meaning that he must always be the “winner,” no matter the circumstances.

This is also precisely why he cries “rigged” whenever a competition or election doesn’t turn out in his favor.

In these case, it was never going to stop and end with a spiteful and emotional tirade on Truth Social—his favorite safe space where he receives an outpouring of support for any message he posts.

In response to being humiliated by Colbert, Trump saw an opportunity to bully a private company into getting Colbert’s show cancelled.

So he called on Brendan Carr at the FCC to do his dirty work for him, and an FCC that is now subordinate to him because Carr is a devout loyalist.

At the behest of Trump, the FCC applied regulatory pressure on Paramount; threatening their merger with Skydance while trying to force them into settling a lawsuit that had no legal ground to stand on in the first place.

But that did not stop Paramount execs from yielding to the Trump regime; all but emboldening the government in its continued targeting of news networks, media organizations, journalists, law firms, judges, prosecutors, universities, etc, who don’t toe the line and can be bullied, bribed, defunded or driven to exhaustion by tedious investigations and lawsuits.

It’s no coincidence that this incident corresponded with the Paramount merger and with the FCC’s investigation and the bureaucratic pressure it applied to Paramount. The Trump Administration, alongside an FCC that is beholden to the president, abused its political power and leverage to get Paramount to fold. If you think these things had nothing to do with the decision to cancel The Late Show, then I have some Trump meme coin to sell you.

And the audacity of right wingers to claim that there was no political agenda involved when their contrarian, cynical, crotchety and conspiratorial asses would be drumming up all kinds of theories if this situation were reversed.

It shouldn’t have to be said, but if you have any principles at all, you don’t submit to the demands of a wanna-be dictator hell bent on tightening the government’s grip on the media—no matter the cost.

Because as a consequence of surrendering to Trump’s unconstitutional attacks against the media, he emerges feeling more empowered than ever as his administration continues its aggressive campaign against free speech and the free press.

Now, that said:

Trump has appointed loyalists into director positions within agencies like the FCC where they carry out his authoritarian whims against his critics in the media.

Trump appointed Brendan Carr to head the FCC. Carr authored a chapter in Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” which outlined FCC policies for a future Trump administration.

Carr previously served as the agency’s general counsel and as an aide to FCC commissioner Ajit Pai, you know, the guy who wanted to repeal net neutrality rules.

Unsurprisingly, Carr also supports changes to Section 230 and opposes net neutrality protections.

Carr publicly accused social media platforms of being biased against the Trump reelection campaign. During an on-air interview with Lou Dobbs Tonight on Fox News, Carr stated that “Since the 2016 election, the far left has hopped from hoax to hoax to hoax to explain how it lost to President Trump at the ballot box.”

He has also made baseless accusations against Adam Schiff, someone who Trump has incessantly attacked over the years; accusing him of overseeing a “secret and partisan surveillance machine.”

In other words, Trump’s decision to appoint Carr as FCC director is just one example of the many conflicts of interest that plague this administration.

And one of the most successful and central aims of said administration, as outlined in Project 2025 of course, is the establishment of a unitary executive beholden to no one. Basically an effort to turn the presidency into a monarch.

This has involved giving the president unilateral authority over just about anything, including his excessive use of executive orders to enact his agenda, a large percentage of which have been deemed or challenged as unconstitutional.

It involves giving Trump unrestricted powers over Congress and the judiciary; allowing him to flout checks and balances, defy court orders and abuse impoundment procedures to take control of the government’s purse.

Trump and his allies claim that this is the most transparent administration in history, but that same administration is orchestrating cover ups of massive scandals, eliminating practically all areas of independent oversight, and stacking the government with loyalists, billionaires and corporate cronies.

So even though Trump says that hiring should be based solely on “merit,” his administration is founded on rampant cronyism, corruption and favoritism.

Trump has abused his powers to make independent agencies indentured to him. He’s turned the DOJ into his own personal legal arm, which he’s weaponizing against his political opponents, his critics, and anyone who has tried to hold him accountable in the past.

Trump has used the FCC to intimidate media organizations that don’t provide him with constant positive publicity. He’s putting economic advisors on the Fed board who align with him on monetary policy. He’s firing heads of agencies and institutions without cause and replacing them with kowtowing loyalists who will suppress or manipulate information and advance his policy goals.

His administration is also stripping civil servants of their protections in order to replace knowledgeable and qualified staff with incompetent lackeys whose only qualifications are that they pledge their undying fealty to Trump and the MAGA agenda.

Dude gets French citizenship and now he’s at the mic talking shit?

That’s all very comfy to say from France

I mean, messenger aside, he’s right that pre-emptive surrender has helped dig this hole. Everyone in power should have refused to oblige, but here we are.

yeah unfortunately that wouldn’t have been profitable. ABC backtracked on blocking Jimmy Kimmel only after it was clear that people would boycott hulu. fighting trump’s frivolous lawsuits also would have been unprofitable as it was unlikely that their legal fees would be repaid, so they just settled because it was cheaper. it’s almost like the profit motive creates incentives to go back on all your promises and compromise all your beliefs.

Clooney is a bit late, but better than most who will say nothing. He and wife also became French Citizens recently. Barbara Streisand is another one- she call out Billionaire Exploitation this year

Clooney should have told himself to do this before taking out a Biden attack ad.

But George said “Biden old!”

You tell em Frenchie

Really hot take my guy.

Don’t forget NBC. There wouldn’t even be a President Trump today if not for The Apprentice sanitizing his reputation, and SNL and Jimmy Fallon tried to continue to do so even while he ran for president

This isn’t the same George Clooney that helped push to get Biden out of the race, is it? Because if it is, he should sit down and stfu.

Honest question… why do we care what mr. Clooney thinks about anything related to politics?

He would be correct.