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George Clooney Hits Back at Trump After “Mediocre” Movie Comments

After Trump called his films “totally mediocre,” George Clooney answered with a twist on Trump’s slogan and a reference to the 2026 midterm elections.
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George Clooney answered Donald Trump’s New Year’s Eve 2025 criticism with a pointed twist on Trump’s own slogan: “I totally agree with the current president. We have to make America great again. We’ll start in November.” As reported by Variety and TheWrap, the closing line referred to the 2026 U.S. midterm elections—not a prediction of a particular result.

What Trump said about Clooney

In a New Year’s Eve 2025 post on Truth Social, Trump addressed George and Amal Clooney’s recent French citizenship and George Clooney’s political involvement. Trump wrote that Clooney received more publicity for politics than for his “very few, and totally mediocre, movies,” and added that Clooney was “not a movie star at all.” Those are Trump’s characterizations, as quoted in reporting by Variety and TheWrap, not objective assessments of Clooney’s films.

Trump’s post also referred to Clooney’s 2024 call for President Joe Biden to leave the presidential race and to Clooney’s support for Kamala Harris. The citizenship, film criticism and political references appeared together in the post; the “mediocre” remark was one part of a broader attack.

How Clooney answered—and what November meant

Clooney’s reported response was: “I totally agree with the current president. We have to make America great again. We’ll start in November.” By echoing “Make America Great Again,” Trump’s signature slogan, Clooney turned the criticism into a political quip aimed at the next national election cycle.

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November meant the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. The Guardian’s retrospective gives the election date as November 3, 2026. Clooney’s line pointed toward that election; it did not specify an outcome or say which party would win control of either chamber of Congress.

Why the two men were already in dispute

Shortly before Trump’s post, Clooney told Variety that he and Trump had once been friendly. TheWrap quoted Clooney recalling, “I knew him very well,” and describing Trump as “a big goofball. Well, he was. That all changed.” Clooney also criticized ABC and CBS in the Variety interview for settling lawsuits filed by Trump. That interview formed part of the immediate context, though Trump’s post also addressed Clooney’s political activity and the Clooneys’ French citizenship.

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Keep the January exchange separate from the later clash

A separate Clooney–White House dispute followed in April 2026, after Clooney condemned Trump’s threat toward Iran and White House communications director Steven Cheung insulted Clooney’s acting. That later argument is distinct from the New Year’s Eve exchange: Trump’s “totally mediocre” comment and Clooney’s November line belong to the January story.

The original Truth Social post and a complete primary transcript are not independently established in the cited reporting here. The quoted wording above is therefore attributed to Variety and TheWrap’s accounts.

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