“Good for you.”
That’s what Academy Award winner George Clooney had to say about President Donald Trump’s election win.
Appearing on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Clooney said that he has the same attitude about Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat that he wants his 7-year-old son to have after he loses chess matches.
“He gets upset, and I [tell him], listen, you shake the guy’s hand, you say, ‘Good game, I’ll get you next time,’” Clooney said. “You’ve got to live by those rules, which is, ‘Alright, good. Good for you. Go. I hope you do well, because our country needs it, and then we’ll meet you in three-and-a-half years and see where we go next.’”
Clooney famously wrote an op-ed for The New York Times in 2024, urging then-President Joe Biden to get out of the race after Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Trump.
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Trump at the time called Clooney a “fake movie actor” who “should get out of politics and go back to television.”
Clooney backed Harris in the election. Harris lost the popular vote and the Electoral College vote to Trump.
Speaking to Colbert, Clooney said that “this is democracy, and this is how it works.”
“What am I supposed to do, storm the [expletive] Capitol?” he said, alluding to the riot by Trump supporters at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“It didn’t work out,” Clooney added, per USA Today. “That’s what happens. It’s part of democracy. There’s people who agree, and people who disagree, and most of us still like each other, and we’re all going to get through it.”
Clooney had praised Biden for getting out of the race, saying that it was “the most selfless thing that anybody’s done since George Washington.”
—Tom Wrobleski, Staten Island Advance, N.Y. (TNS)
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