George Clooney: Trump, Bannon 'Hollywood elitists'

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http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/320465-george-clooney-trump-bannon-hollywood-elitists

George Clooney is pushing back against critics who bash movie stars for speaking out about politics, saying President Trump and White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon are the real “Hollywood elitists.”

“When Meryl [Streep] spoke, everyone on that one side said, ‘Well that’s elitist Hollywood speaking.’ Donald Trump has 22 acting credits in television,” Clooney said in an interview over the weekend with the French network Canal+.

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But former “Celebrity Apprentice” star Trump, Clooney said, “Collects $120,000 a year from his Screen Actors Guild pension fund. He is a Hollywood elitist.”

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“Steve Bannon is a failed film writer and director. That's the truth, that’s what he’s done,” Clooney said with a slight grin. “He wrote a Shakespearean rap musical about the L.A. riots that he couldn’t get made. He made a lot of money off of ‘Seinfeld.’ He’s elitist Hollywood, I mean that’s the reality.”

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“We have a demagogue in the White House. We need the fourth estate, which is journalists, to hold his feet to the fire.”

“They didn’t do a very good job during the campaign. And they haven’t done a particularly good job yet. But those things will change,” the Oscar winner and “Money Monster” star said.

Clooney — who predicted last May that Trump wouldn’t win the White House — said having the real estate mogul occupy the Oval Office is still “hard to imagine. It still catches in your throat.”

“But we’ll fix it,” Clooney said. “We have to.”

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1. Thank you so much George Clooney.. well stated!

Mahalo high

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2. Now, that's plain funny.

Go, George, go!

[Sucha NastyWoman]

3. Run, George, run!

He once said he could never run for president because he has too much stuff In his past that would come out. I think at this point we apparently don't care about that stuff anymore so he should run