{"id":45027,"date":"2026-04-08T19:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=45027"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:13:33","slug":"george-clooney-smears-president-trump-as-a-war-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=45027","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney Smears President Trump as a &#8216;War Criminal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Left-wing actor George Clooney is calling President Donald Trump a war criminal after Trump insisted he intended to erase away the oppressive Iranian Mullah\u2019s \u201cwhole civilization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actor, who abandoned the U.S.A. to take up residence in Italy, ripped Trump for his social media post warning the oppressive, terror-exporting, Iranian regime that he intended to utterly destroy them.<\/p>\n<p>Trump took to his Truth Social account on Monday, April 7, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2026\/04\/07\/nolte-trump-warns-iran-its-civilization-will-die-tonight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warn<\/a> the Mullahs, writing, \u201cA whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don\u2019t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/116363336033995961\/embed\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The bellicose, left-wing actor did not appreciate the president\u2019s words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome say Donald Trump is fine. But if anyone says he wants to end a civilization, that\u2019s a war crime,\u201d Clooney said two days later, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/global\/george-clooney-slams-trump-iran-war-threat-war-crime-1236711290\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Variety<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">\u201cYou can still support the conservative point of view, but there must be a line of decency, and we must not cross it,\u201d he exclaimed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>Clooney also said he worried that Trump would pull the U.S.A. out of the perennially useless North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m worried about NATO,\u201d he kvetched. \u201cIt has ensured that Europe, but also the rest of the world, has been safe. Dismantling an institution like this worries me. Aside from many mistakes, I believe the U.S. [with NATO] has also done many extraordinary things that have stood the test of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clooney\u2019s criticism of Trump should be taken with a grain of salt. He loudly campaigned against Trump and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2020\/07\/29\/george-clooney-and-barack-obama-discuss-defeating-trump-during-biden-fundraiser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supported<\/a> Joe Biden before turning on Biden to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2024\/07\/23\/george-clooney-backs-kamala-harris-for-president-after-leading-charge-to-dump-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">back<\/a> his undemocratically chosen replacement, Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, despite Clooney\u2019s wringing of hands and name calling, the president called a truce with Iran overnight into Wednesday morning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2026\/04\/07\/peace-dividend-u-s-futures-surge-asia-stocks-jump-oil-plunges-after-trump-announces-cease-fire-with-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">causing<\/a> stock prices to soar and oil prices to fall. And he finished his punitive actions against Iran precisely within the six-week time frame he predicted at the start.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a>, Truth Social <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@WarnerToddHuston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WarnerToddHuston<\/a>, or at X\/Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WTHuston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WTHuston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2026\/04\/08\/george-clooney-smears-president-trump-as-a-war-criminal\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-wing actor George Clooney is calling President Donald Trump a war criminal after Trump insisted he intended to erase away the oppressive Iranian Mullah\u2019s \u201cwhole civilization.\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}