Well, folks, it looks like the Tinseltown Tango between George Clooney and Barack Obama has taken a nosedive, with the Hollywood A-lister reportedly fuming after being left holding the political hot potato.
RadarOnline claims Clooney feels betrayed, believing he was used as the unwitting fall guy to end Joe Biden’s political career and set up Kamala Harris for a resounding defeat to Donald Trump. And let’s not sugarcoat it—Clooney’s not wrong to feel duped.
It started with that op-ed in The New York Times, where Clooney publicly called for Biden to step aside following a disastrous debate performance. Many saw the move as more than Clooney’s opinion; it reeked of an Obama-orchestrated maneuver.
After all, Clooney and Obama have been thick as thieves for years, and it’s hard to believe a bombshell like that would go off without the former president’s blessing.
But once the op-ed did its job—pressuring Biden to bow out—Clooney doubled down by endorsing Kamala Harris and even filming a desperate campaign ad aimed at guilt-tripping working-class voters.
The ad flopped. Harris lost in a Trump landslide, and Clooney suddenly found himself the scapegoat for the Democratic Party’s 2024 debacle. Now he’s reportedly furious with Obama for vanishing into the ether while Clooney takes all the heat.
It’s a story as old as Hollywood: use someone as the face of a bad plan, then watch them get shredded when it fails. Clooney’s glamorous image as a liberal activist has now been tarnished, and Democrats, scrambling to find excuses, have conveniently turned their ire toward him. Insiders say Clooney expected Obama to step in and defend him, maybe take some responsibility for the disaster. But so far, crickets from the Obama camp.
This debacle isn’t just about Clooney and Obama—it’s a cautionary tale for Hollywood’s fading political influence. Americans are clearly done with celebrities playing kingmakers.
A recent poll shows voters overwhelmingly rejecting celebrity endorsements, which spells trouble for a Democratic Party increasingly reliant on Hollywood’s loud voices and deep pockets to sway young and impressionable voters.
Clooney, for his part, is reportedly swearing off political activism after being burned. And who can blame him? He went from celebrated humanitarian to political patsy in record time, all while Hollywood elites like Beyoncé conveniently ducked the fallout. If this doesn’t signal the end of Hollywood’s political era, it’s certainly the beginning of a long and embarrassing fade-out.
