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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    Anyone would have a better life in France instead of the US but good for him. Glad to see there’s still some backbone in Hollywood.

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    I’m a regular guy who saved up for years while studying another language and gtfo of the US. It’s an option.

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      I did that too and I got tired of it and came back and now it looks like the country’s fucked. Thanks a lot guys

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        If you did it once, you can do it again. Nowhere is perfect, though. If I had it to do over, I’d probably pick one of the Nordics instead of Japan.

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    The rich and famous will live their lives in a bubble no matter where they reside. And Clooney is still going to hear about Trump’s criticisms no matter where he lives.

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    Wtf is wrong with these comments. Is lemmy full of hate bots now aswell?

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    ITT: people not realizing his wife was born in Lebanon. Are they safer than your average non-pure-white family? Absolutely. But they have legitimate reasons to be scared.

    Also apparently she’s a human rights lawyer so she’s bound to have pissed off republicans one way or another already.

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      What does her wife being from Lebanon has anything to do with this? She has British and French citizenship so it is easy for him to get the citizenship and I bet she is safe from ICE on virtue of having shit ton of money, other 2 nationalities and being an international lawyer.

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        Yeah I get hating rich people, because fuck inequality, that’s true, but the Clooneys seem like pretty decent people to me as far as rich celebrities are concerned.

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          He for sure has too much money(Google said $500 mill) but he’s small time compared to the richest and the corporations that are doing the most damage to the future. I doubt more than a few folks interested in eating the rich are champing at the bit to get at Clooney.

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          George Clooney did a pretty good job (just like all the other actors) in the 2000 Coen Brothers film “O Brother Where Art Thou”. Seriously!

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    Lemmy in a fucking nutshell: Fuck these rich people!

    Also lemmy, missed the entire fucking point.

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        Lemmy is ambivalent about this comment but it’s right. We can hold both positions, that rich people’s privilege is irritating, but that also living in the US is hard and many of us would greatly appreciate the privilege. There’s a word for this I think… actually comes to us via French. Jealousy.

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    Having more money than you could spend in your lifetime buys you options not available to most people, news at 11.