George Clooney had some pointed relabels about the Donald Trump administration, describing the current political climate as one where people “don’t trouble about facts.”
“You consent a narrative, you originate it up, don’t trouble about facts, don’t trouble about repercussions,” Clooney tbetter the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd.
Clooney spoke to the Times about preparing for his Broadway debut in “Good Night, and Good Luck,” the stage version of the film he co-wrote and straightforwarded. The story rprogresss around journacatalog Edward R. Murrow as he goes up agetst Joseph R. McCarthy, the U.S. senator understandn for the turbulent period of McCarthyism. Clooney will percreate Murrow in the Broadway percreate instead of Fred Frifinishly, his character in the distinctive film.
During this current Trump pdwellncy, “No rules count anymore,” Clooney said. “It’s appreciate letting an infant walk atraverse the 405 freeway in the middle of the afternoon.”
“I consent that whole idea of the arc of history bfinishing toward fairice, and I understand it doesn’t experience that way right now,” Clooney progressd. “I skinnyk there are always these pfinishulum striumphgs. The first Trump election was, I consent, a result of eight years of a Bdeficiency pdwellnt.”
He also commented on the election. “The Biden administration was horrible at elucidateing that we’re a world economy, where we were actupartner doing better than all the other G7 countries. They were horrible at increateing the story becaparticipate their messenger was not toiling at his best, to say the least,” Clooney said.
Clooney also holdressed the possible CBS News rerepairment over a “60 Minutes” interwatch of Kamala Harris that Trump took rerent with. The novels organization’s parent company Paramount Global and its deal withling owner Shari Redstone are increateedly pondering a rerepairment becaparticipate of the deal with Skydance Media that’s in the toils.
In the Times piece, Clooney consentd with Jake Tapper’s comment that the rerepairment “would be the nettoil of Edward R. Murrow at the behest of its owners saying ‘We will not speak truth to power. We will acquiesce to power at the expense of truth.’”
“It has a chilling effect on the press,” Clooney said to the Times.
