{"id":2366503,"date":"2026-04-10T04:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2366503"},"modified":"2026-04-10T04:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:40:49","slug":"clooney-slams-trump-admin-after-acting-criticism-war-crime-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/clooney-slams-trump-admin-after-acting-criticism-war-crime-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Clooney slams Trump admin after acting criticism, &#8216;war crime&#8217; comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/12\/USAT\/88135846007-202601011-ent-golden-globes-george-clooney.jpg?crop=719,405,x0,y256\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>George Clooney walks with style at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards red carpet<\/p>\n<p>George Clooney makes a stylish entrance on the red carpet at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards in a standout moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/entertainment\/celebrities\/george-clooney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">George Clooney<\/a> is slamming the Trump administration, after the White House criticized his acting over comments about the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2026\/01\/02\/george-clooney-donald-trump-french-citizenship\/87996233007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Clooney<\/a>, in a statement shared with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/george-clooney-slams-trump-white-house-acting-criticism-1236559414\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> on Wednesday, April 8, dismissed the Trump administration&#8217;s &#8220;infantile name-calling&#8221; while &#8220;families are losing their loved ones&#8221; and &#8220;children have been incinerated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world&#8217;s economy is on a knife&#8217;s edge. This is a time for vigorous debate at the highest levels,&#8221; the actor, 64, told the outlet. &#8220;I&#8217;ll start. A war crime is alleged &#8216;when there is intent to physically destroy a nation,&#8217; as defined by the Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute. What is the administration&#8217;s defense? [besides calling me a failed actor which I happily agree with having starred in &#8216;Batman and Robin&#8217;?].&#8221; (The 1997 film, in which Clooney plays Bruce Wayne, is considered one of the worst films ever made.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/entertainment\/celebrities\/george-clooney\/\" data-autotag=\"1ba7ea96-a6ed-4ca7-b81e-570b8d01e0c8\">George Clooney<\/a> and wife <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/12\/30\/george-clooney-amal-kids-french-citizenship\/87956810007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Amal granted French citizenship<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY has reached out to Clooney&#8217;s reps and the White House for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The comments come after a back-and-forth of sorts between the Trump administration and the &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/11\/26\/george-clooney-children-jay-kelly-movie\/87378097007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jay Kelly<\/a>&#8221; actor coming out of the Iran war. President <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/donald-trump\/\" data-autotag=\"26f031d1-9924-4f10-b4e6-019d076113d5\">Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116363336033995961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Truth Social post<\/a> threatening that &#8220;whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again&#8221; amid the war spawned <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/04\/07\/some-republicans-objected-to-iran-war-escalation-see-what-they-said\/89506558007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">widespread criticism<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2026\/04\/07\/trump-impeachment-2026-what-to-know-about-25th-amendment-iran-threat\/89504132007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calls for impeachment<\/a> and concern that his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2026\/04\/06\/trump-iran-threats-war-crimes\/89483491007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threats would constitute war crimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A day later, Clooney, speaking in front of 2,700 students in Cuneo, Italy, said, &#8220;If someone says he wants to end civilization, that&#8217;s a crime,&#8221; according to the Italian outlet <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ansa.it\/sito\/notizie\/cronaca\/2026\/04\/08\/george-clooney-minacciare-la-fine-di-una-civilta-e-un-crimine-di-guerra_8df8c93c-2466-47f7-bdfc-027e08b230e0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ANSA<\/a>. &#8220;This is not a great moment in American history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">George Clooney\u00a0makes cheeky reply <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2026\/01\/02\/george-clooney-donald-trump-french-citizenship\/87996233007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">to Trump celebrating move to France<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>White House communications director Steven Cheung responded with a dig later Wednesday, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StevenCheung47\/status\/2041920446312935625?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writing on X<\/a> that &#8220;the only person committing war crimes is George Clooney for his awful movies and terrible acting ability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President\u00a0Trump&#8217;s ceasefire with Iran is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2026\/04\/09\/trump-ceasefire-lebanon-iran-war-israel-updates--live\/89526832007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on tenuous ground<\/a> as of Thursday, after Israel launched its\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2026\/04\/08\/iran-war-ceasefire-strait-hormuz-trump-updates--live\/89509782007\/#glc89526537007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deadliest wave of strikes on Lebanon<\/a>\u00a0since the war began and Tehran vowed not to desert its allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">US-Iran ceasefire <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2026\/04\/09\/trump-ceasefire-lebanon-iran-war-israel-updates--live\/89526832007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on tenuous ground; Trump issues warning. Live updates<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A day after announcing the Iran war ceasefire, Trump took to social media to warn the country that if the &#8220;REAL AGREEMENT&#8221; was not complied with, the U.S. would respond with &#8220;bigger, better, and stronger&#8221; attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The threat comes amid deep confusion over whether the two-week ceasefire agreement extends to Lebanon, where health officials say more than 200 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Wednesday. The U.S. and Israel maintain that Lebanon was not included in the ceasefire; Iran and Pakistan, which has been involved in negotiations, said the temporary truce includes Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Contributing: Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, Christopher Cann and Michael Loria, USA TODAY<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Clooney walks with style at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards red carpet George Clooney makes a stylish entrance on the red carpet at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards in a standout moment. George Clooney is slamming the Trump administration, after the White House criticized his acting over comments about the Iran war. 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