Posted on 06/05/2025 6:37:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
This article originally appeared on vigilantfox.com and was republished with permission.
Anderson Cooper just aired a short segment from his interview with actor George Clooney, discussing his Broadway directorial debut, Good Night, and Good Luck—a play about journalist Edward R. Murrow’s confrontation with McCarthy-era fearmongering.
Screenshot from Anderson Cooper 360. The interview started off with Anderson Cooper trying to paint Trump’s first 136 days in his second term as the “worst” in America’s history.
That was a claim so absurd that even Clooney couldn’t bite on that.
“I can make an argument that we’ve had much worse times in our history,” Clooney responded.
“[In] 1968, every city in the United States was burning. There was National Guard surrounding the White House and the Capitol, and we’d lost Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy and Tet Offensive (Vietnam War).”
The conversation quickly shifted to how now is a “scary time” to be in the news industry, at least according to Clooney.
Why? Because Trump is finally holding the media accountable for lying to the American public, like his $20 billion lawsuit alleging that 60 Minutes deceptively edited their Kamala Harris interview to favor Democrats.
But Clooney classified Trump’s action as demagoguery.
Here’s the allegedly deceptive CBS edit—exposed by popular X clipper @Mazemoore, who caught the stunt back in October 2024.
He wrote at the time, “Remember Kamala’s word salad answer about Israel on 60 Minutes? It’s gone. This is what many Americans will now see.”
Then came Clooney’s grim prediction for MAGA.
Cooper asked Clooney, “Do you think Trumpism lasts beyond this term?”
“Don’t think so,” Clooney responded. “I think it’d be very hard to do it.”
Putting on his “expert” hat, Clooney explained why he believed MAGA was done for good after Trump finishes his second term.
“He [Trump] is also a celebrity, and he is charming. And to the people who like him, they think he’s funny. To a great many others, they don’t. And so when he is finished, and he will be finished, they’re going to have to go looking for someone who can deliver the message that he delivered with the same kind of charisma. And they don’t have that.”
This is not the first time Clooney has made a bold prediction about Trump. Back in 2016, he forecasted:
“There’s not going to be a President Donald Trump. Fear is not going to drive our country.”
It turns out Clooney was wrong—twice.
Clooney exposed himself, once again, as being wildly out of touch with everyday Americans. In his Hollywood bubble, Trump’s rise is just a glorified fan club.
But in 2028, he’s in for a rude awakening because MAGA isn’t a fan club. It’s a reckoning. And it’s not going anywhere.
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Only Kronkite (sp?) said the Tet offensive was a loss — the lying partisan hack. It was a clear win. But, the lie was used by the Democrats to violate the defense treaty with SVietnam and condemn them to slavery.
As to Clloon, released USSR docs after the fall of the wall proved that everyone McCarthy charged with commie collusion was on the Soviet payroll. Not all the press and the Hollywood blacklisting, the ones actually accused.
Morrow, a cursed name in Ameerican History.
It takes so much more than “charisma” to stand up again after getting shot by a sniper and raise a fist while bleeding inside of a yet-unsecured kill box sector and yell-out to fellow Americans who are scared, confused, defenseless and worried: “Fight, Fight, Fight!”
Clooney is a plastic facsimile of a man. A phony pony.
I find it amusing that CNN has to “put on a play” to show its viewers that it’s serious about journalism.
It’s not like the could do something like…actually doing journalism to show its serious about journalism. //sarc
Or a Looney Clooney.
We know it takes a completely different person that won't necessarily be 100%, or even 80%, what we want, but even 75% solid on everything else in common with us is everything. We, as a country, so need to reverse what we can, to get somewhat back on track.
Trump's persona is different than he is. He is a much more down-to-earth person than his outward persona shows. This is what is actually communicated to people who support him.
The gaudy “flash” is for the consumption of those it influences.
It’s the ‘Brady Bunch’ Method...............We need money? I know! We’ll put on a show!................
Clooney's only tools are looks, charisma, and popularity. He naturally evaluates others on that basis.
George Clooney Looney doesn’t have a clue of what is about to happen in the next four years.
Acting. The only profession where you can make multiple mistakes over and over and over again again while on the job and still not get fired.
huck follywood
Clooney the Looney has never predicted anything right.
The rise of the right and Trumpean politics is directly proportionate to insane leftist politics. If the crazy woke crap from the left ceases and the left returns to some centrist positions, yes, MAGA carnival will fold up the big tent.
““[In] 1968, every city in the United States was burning. There was National Guard surrounding the White House and the Capitol, and we’d lost Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy and Tet Offensive (Vietnam War).””
Actually, we won the Tet Offensive and utterly destroyed the Viet Cong, who ceased to exist after Tet.
MLK was killed by a democrat drug using porn freak who was already a felon, who also desired to leave the US, just like Oswald.
Bobby was killed by a foreigner.
Nothing about Democraps is about the truth and only leads to murder and violence.
And after the full pullout of all Active Duty US Armed Forces in 9172, the South Vietnamese were able to reple another Invasion from the North because they had US Airpower providing airborne artillery against the NoComs.
Until the Dems and RINOS pushed President Nixon to resign and then the Dems cut off all military funding to South Vietnam which was why the North finally won in 1975.
This illustrates that liberals do have good techniques. They create a fantasy and insist it’s reality, which can make it real if enough people believe them.
“”Clooney exposed himself, once again, as being wildly out of touch with everyday Americans. In his Hollywood bubble, Trump’s rise is just a glorified fan club.
But in 2028, he’s in for a rude awakening because MAGA isn’t a fan club. It’s a reckoning. And it’s not going anywhere.””
A glorified adoration club like the one that installed the worst disaster they called president that this nation has ever had to endure ... ie Obama. Clooney is one that would know all about such clubs, since he’s one of those still fawning over the one known in Chicago as Bathouse Barry.
As for that reckoning, I fully expect Vance to carry on that ‘torch of reckoning’ for We, the People, well into 2032, at least. God willing.
HRC ? The one claimed that she was “dodging sniper Fire while landing from a helicopter in Sarajevo “? That HRC.?
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