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The Hollywood actor is a prominent donor to the Democratic Party in the United States. In recent years, that has regularly led to criticism from President Trump, who has called him a “second-rate movie star,” among other things. According to Clooney, it didn’t bother him much. “It’s not my job to keep the President of the United States happy.”

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 135 points 1 day ago (3 children)

ITT: people not realizing his wife was born in Lebanon. Are they safer than your average non-pure-white family? Absolutely. But they have legitimate reasons to be scared.

Also apparently she's a human rights lawyer so she's bound to have pissed off republicans one way or another already.

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 88 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She was a key part of the team prosecuting the war crimes case against Israel

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I get hating rich people, because fuck inequality, that's true, but the Clooneys seem like pretty decent people to me as far as rich celebrities are concerned.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He for sure has too much money(Google said $500 mill) but he’s small time compared to the richest and the corporations that are doing the most damage to the future. I doubt more than a few folks interested in eating the rich are champing at the bit to get at Clooney.

[–] hanrahan@feddit.online 3 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Well VP Vances wife is an immigrant, as is Trump:s wife

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Women are just "things" to those people. They may feel bad about not buying American, but it doesn't affect them.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago

Consistency is not necessary for fascism.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

And haven't you seen how elated they appear to be about their choices (assuming they had a choice to begin with)?

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I imagine Vance's wife might have an unfortunate accident any day now.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago

Swallowed by a couch

[–] Spaniard@lemmy.world -2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

What does her wife being from Lebanon has anything to do with this? She has British and French citizenship so it is easy for him to get the citizenship and I bet she is safe from ICE on virtue of having shit ton of money, other 2 nationalities and being an international lawyer.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What does her wife being from Lebanon has anything to do with this?

That she's obviously not safe in the country and people are mad that they decided to uproot their family and leave?

I bet she is safe from ICE on virtue of having shit ton of money, other 2 nationalities and being an international lawyer.

I'm sure that being part of the team that being one of the authors of this article makes you popular with Netanyahu's sock puppet's pet anti-immigration criminal organization lmao. She's also represented other people that the US government doesn't exactly agree with. There are a LOT of good reasons for Trump to disappear her. She did exactly the one thing that the shit ton of money allowed her to do: Escaped. I hope everyone else who can and needs to, does as well. The bigger the brain drain, the better - Trump's empire won't last as long.

[–] Spaniard@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Neither him nor her or their family are in any danger in the USA, besides the usual due to the nature of the country.