George Clooney has vowed that Donald Trump will not be elected president, promising that “fear is not going to be something that drives” the United States.
Clooney spoke to reporters on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival where he stars in Jodie Foster’s hostage thriller Money Monster. Clooney, a prominent fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, insisted that Trump will not win.
There’s not going to be a President Donald Trump. That’s not going to happen. Fear is not going to be something that drives our country. We’re not going to be scared of Muslims or immigrants or women. We’re not actually afraid of anything.George Clooney
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Clooney and his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, last month hosted a pair of events in Los Angeles and San Francisco that raised millions for Clinton.
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The actor said that Trump is the product of the collision of news and entertainment depicted in Money Monster. In it, Clooney plays a Jim Cramer-like financial guru taken hostage live on the air by a distraught investor (Jack O’Connell). Julia Roberts co-stars as the program’s producer.
Trump is actually a result in many ways of the fact that much of the news programs didn’t follow up and ask tough questions. Twenty-four-hour news doesn’t mean you get more news, it means you get the same news more. More and more and more you hear these guys, their ratings go up because they can show an empty podium saying ‘Donald Trump is about to speak,’ as opposed to taking those 30 seconds and saying, ‘Well, let’s talk about refugees,’ which is the biggest crisis going on in the world right now.
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