Trump’s fury was instant – and personal.
George and Amal Clooney’s quiet move to French citizenship has detonated into a fresh political street fight, with Truth Social as the battlefield and old grudges dragged into the light. Trump mocked, Clooney had already cursed the networks that paid him off, and somewhere between Hollywood, Paris and Mar-a-La… Continues…
Trump’s reaction to the Clooneys’ French citizenship is less about a passport and more about a long-simmering rivalry finally boiling over. On Truth Social, he painted their move as proof of France’s “crime” and “immigration” failures, using the family’s new life on a rural farm as ammunition in a broader culture war. He dismissed George and Amal as failed political prophets, ridiculed Clooney’s film career, and tied it all back to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, whom Clooney once urged Democrats to rally behind.
Clooney, for his part, has framed Trump as a dangerous product of media cowardice, blasting CBS and ABC for settling lawsuits instead of fighting. He remembers Trump as a harmless “goofball” from New York days, transformed into something darker by politics. Now, while the Clooneys raise their twins far from Hollywood, their very choice of home has become another symbol in America’s bitter, never-ending argument over power, truth, and who gets to walk away.