The Hollywood actor is a prominent donor to the Democratic Party in the United States. In recent years, that has regularly led to criticism from President Trump, who has called him a “second-rate movie star,” among other things. According to Clooney, it didn’t bother him much. “It’s not my job to keep the President of the United States happy.”

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    22 days ago

    If a rich man and his wife feel safer outside the United States, that’s saying something. And you completely missed the whole theme under discussion.

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      22 days ago

      What exactly is it saying? I understand his wife is a lebanese, but how are they materially any less safe in the US than they are in France? This really just sounds like wealthy liberals changing country clubs. I’ve only ever been to France as a tourist but they didn’t seem any less prejudice there.

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        22 days ago

        I think Clooney might be specific about paparazzi pressure here. You don’t really see the same level of harassment from this kind of press in France. I don’t know.

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        21 days ago

        The divided states are a hate-filled bunch of rag-tag counties occupying space on the same continent. In Europe, there is less (not zero) hate and people do not define their lives around Fox news.