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White House Wars With George Clooney Over Iran

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George Clooney tore into President Donald Trump after the president warned that an entire civilization could be wiped out if Iran refused his terms.

Trump issued an ultimatum tied to the Strait of Hormuz, setting an 8 p.m. deadline for Tehran to reopen the waterway and agree to a ceasefire.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump wrote in part on Truth Social.

A two-week ceasefire between the United States, Iran, and Israel was reached ahead of that deadline.

Clooney took aim at the remark during a public appearance in Italy and called it out directly as a war crime.

“Some say Donald Trump is fine. But if anyone says he wants to end a civilization, that’s a war crime,” he said during the “Dialogues on Talent” event in Cuneo, according to ANSA.

“You can still support the conservative point of view, but there must be a line of decency, and we must not cross it,” he added.

The event, which was hosted by the Clooney Foundation for Justice and the CRC Foundation and Collistioni Foundation, drew roughly 3,000 high school students.

The White House answered with a personalized counterpunch that mocked Clooney’s take.

“The only person committing war crimes is George Clooney for his awful movies and terrible acting ability,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung wrote in a statement.

Clooney was quick to clap back at the White House for slinging personal insults while tensions are high worldwide.

“Families are losing their loved ones,” he said in a statement to Deadline. “Children have been incinerated. The world’s economy is on a knife’s edge. This is a time for vigorous debate at the highest levels. Not for infantile name calling.”

He pointed to the legal definition of war crime and took a shot at the Trump administration for jabbing at his career instead of defending their actions.

“A war crime is alleged ‘when there is intent to physically destroy a nation,’ as defined by the Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute,” he said.

“What is the administration’s defense? [besides calling me a failed actor which I happily agree with having starred in Batman and Robin?].”

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Trump and Clooney have traded shots before across interviews and social media repeatedly.

In a recent interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Clooney said that “Trumpism” will not last beyond the president’s term, because he’s “a celebrity,” and the next generation of MAGA politicians won’t have his charisma.

“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,” Clooney told Cooper.

“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.”

Clooney previously criticized major media companies for settling lawsuits with Trump rather than fighting them in court.

“If CBS and ABC had challenged those lawsuits and said, ‘Go f— yourself,’ we wouldn’t be where we are in the country,” he told Variety.

Trump celebrated that Clooney and his family had fled the nation to live in France in a gleeful Truth Social post on New Year’s Eve.

“Good News! George and Amal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France which is, sadly, in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration, much like we had under Sleepy Joe Biden,” he wrote on Truth Social.

He also revisited Clooney’s break with former President Joe Biden after the 2024 debate, when he famously wrote and op-ed urging the former president to drop out of the race.

“Remember when Clooney, after the now infamous debate, dumped Joe during a fundraiser, only to go onto the side of another stellar candidate, Jamala(K!), who is now fighting it out with the worst governor in the Country, including Tim Waltz, Gavin Newscum, for who is going to lead the Democrats to their future defeat,” Trump penned.

During his address in Italy, Clooney also raised concerns about U.S. alliances, after Trump suggested he was mulling an exit from NATO.

“I’m worried about NATO,” he said. “It has ensured that Europe, but also the rest of the world, has been safe. Dismantling an institution like this worries me.”

“Apart from many mistakes, I believe the U.S. [with NATO] has also done many extraordinary things that have stood the test of time,” he added.

Trump directed frustration at NATO members for not backing U.S. efforts tied to the Strait of Hormuz.

“NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN,” he wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday.

The dispute centers on the Strait of Hormuz, a critical artery for global oil shipments where Trump had pressed NATO allies to send naval support.

The administration had pushed member nations to deploy warships to help secure the waterway and stabilize shipping traffic as tensions with Iran escalated.

That support never materialized, and the absence has become a central complaint from the White House as it tries to pressure Tehran while keeping global markets from spiraling.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed that frustration, saying NATO countries had “turned their backs on the American people,” framing it as allies leaning on U.S. protection without stepping up in return.

Trump returned to the issue again the following day after a “very frank” and “very open” meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday.

“None of these people…including our own, very disappointing Nato, understood anything unless they have pressure placed upon them!!!” he wrote.

Rutte offered a more measured account after meeting with Trump, who he said was “clearly disappointed” with the nation’s allies.

“The large majority of European nations has been helpful with basing, with logistics, with overflights,” he said in an interview with CNN. “It’s therefore a nuanced picture.”

Rutte credited Trump’s actions in the conflict. Asked whether the world was safer, he answered “absolutely” and pointed to what he described as progress in degrading Iran’s nuclear threat.

Rutte also addressed a past remark that he admitted he’ll never be able to live down. When speaking about Israel and Iran, he compared the warring countries to “two kids in a schoolyard.”

He then described Trump as a father figure and note that “sometimes daddy needs to use strong language.”

“On the ‘daddy thing,’ this is a language problem,” he said. “In Dutch, you would say – the translation of your father is daddy – and I said, ‘sometimes daddy has to be angry.’”

He clarified he was not assigning a literal role to Trump. “So I was not calling him my daddy,” he said. “But of course, daddy has all sorts of special connotations, and now I have to live with it for the rest of my life.”

“And I own it. And the president owns it. He brought out t-shirts, he made a movie, ‘Daddy is home,’ when he returned to the United States. This is why I like him so much.”

He acknowledged the translation gap. “You make mistakes, and this is when you are not a native speaker – sorry for that.”

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