Trump calls Clooney a ‘backstabber’ and ‘third-rate actor’ over op-ed urging Biden to drop out

Former President Donald Trump slammed George Clooney as a “backstabber” and a “third-rate movie actor” for his New York Times op-ed calling on President Joe Biden to drop out of his race for re-election.

Trump appeared on The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show on Friday saying that regardless of what you think of Biden, “he’s been nice to Clooney.”

“I thought it was very disloyal, backstabber, third-rate movie actor,” Trump said on the program in reference to the op-ed.

Last month, two weeks before the fateful June 27 debate, Clooney co-hosted an LA fundraiser that brought in more than $30 million for Biden, who has since faced a flood of calls from Democratic lawmakers and celebrities to bow out of the 2024 election.

In an op-ed in The New York Times on Wednesday, Clooney wrote, “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”

The Biden campaign has been in damage control mode ever since the debate after the president appeared confused and frail. With a raspy voice, Biden was often unable to finish his thoughts and made several gaffes.

Facing increasing pressure to step aside, Biden forecefully rejected those calls on Thursday night during a press conference at the end of the NATO summit in Washington.

“I think I’m the most qualified. I beat him once and I will beat him again,” he said of Trump. “I’m not in this for my legacy. I’m in it to finish the job I’ve started.”

On Friday, Trump — who’s campaign is reportedly eager to see Biden remain in the race since it could be more difficult for the former president to defeat a younger Democrat —