George Clooney is SLAMMED for demanding Joe Biden quit ahead of Donald Trump’s election victory

George Clooney has been criticized by fans after demanding Joe Biden resign ahead of Donald Trump’s election victory on Tuesday.

In July, the 63-year-old Ocean’s Eleven actor wrote an op-ed for the New York Times where he demanded that Biden withdraw from the presidential race.

Later that same month, the current 46th President of the United States announced he would be stepping aside, and Clooney quickly endorsed Kamala Harris when she took his place.

However, after months of campaigning by both parties, Donald J. Trump became the 47th elected president of the US after a landslide victory. He currently obtained 295 electoral votes and also won the popular vote.

Social media users have since shared their thoughts on George urging Biden to drop out of the race months early.

A veteran-led political commentary group called altNOAA typed on X: “Someone bring me George Clooney. We need to talk.”

Journalist Joshua Hartley uploaded a screenshot of Clooney’s op-ed and added: “Thanks George Clooney.”

One X user wrote: ‘Trump shouldn’t forget to thank Hollywood celebrities. Especially George Clooney.’

A Donald Trump fan also referenced the actor, writing, “It just struck me that we failed to acknowledge George Clooney’s role in this victory!”

‘How George Clooney changed his mind!!’ another fan shared it, possibly referring to the actor’s silence on social media following Trump’s victory on Tuesday.

Another told X: “I blame George Clooney for saying no more money… and now look…”

“Since I’m in a deep depression and feel like lashing out at someone, what’s George Clooney’s plan now?” one social media user typed it out, while another simply added, “It’s all George Clooney’s fault!”

A professor at New York University named Laurence F. Maslon opened up The Guardian regarding celebrity endorsements.

“I think endorsements have probably always done more for the celebrity than for the person being endorsed.”

Maslon added, “It’s a way of linking your star to someone who seems good for you, and maybe there’s some kind of reflected glory in that.”

“There’s probably not a Republican candidate for any office in the last 20 years who hasn’t put the word liberal before the word Hollywood when talking about it… People like George Clooney and Robert De Niro, I mean, who cares out, honestly?’

Margaretha Bentley, a professor at Arizona State University, also told the newspaper: ‘In the academic literature, research has shown that while celebrity endorsements can increase civic engagement and voter registration, it has not been proven to have a direct impact on the way people cast their votes. their voting decisions.”

She also added, “Voters may do more research after a celebrity endorses it, but they will vote based on their own values ​​and not necessarily the values ​​of the celebrity endorsing it.”

It comes just months after Clooney wrote an op-ed calling on President Joe Biden to step aside.

He also endorsed Harris for the first time in July — just two weeks after he said it was time to distance himself from Biden in the scathing article for the New York Times.

“President Biden has shown what real leadership is. He is saving democracy again,” he said in a statement to CNN, two days after Biden made the extraordinary decision to drop out of the race.

He endorsed the vice president to succeed him as the Democratic nominee to take on Trump, saying, “We are all so excited to do everything we can to support Vice President Harris in her historic quest .’

Biden faced increasingly frenzied calls to step aside after a disastrous debate performance against Trump in June.

Less than a month before dropping out of the race, Clooney had raised $30 million in a fundraiser for Biden.

However, the megastar, who organized several fundraisers for Biden, wrote on July 10 that the president could not win the “battle against time.”

The cheeky op-ed was seen as one of the turning points against Biden’s attempt to hold on to the nomination in a bid to secure a second term.

The actor condemned Democratic party leaders for ignoring “every warning sign” of Biden’s declining physical and mental health and for trying to defend his actions during the car crash debate against Trump.

He added that Democratic voters “collectively hold our breath or turn down the volume when we see the president we respect walk off Air Force One or walk back to a microphone to answer an unscripted question.” ‘

And earlier this month, ahead of the election, the actor doubled down on his support for Kamala Harris in a campaign ad urging men to think about how voting for Donald Trump will affect the women in their lives.

The ad, released by the left-wing Christian organization Vote Common Good, reminded men that they can lie to their Trump friends about how they voted.

And it also urged them to think about how their vote will “affect the people you care about most” before casting their vote.

The clip followed a father and his manly-looking friends into the polls as they encouraged each other to “make America great again.”

Clooney – who narrates the short video – then urged voters to think of their families, reminding them that ‘you can vote any way you want and no one will ever know’ before the man votes for Harris.”

The ad is the second released by Vote Common Good, encouraging voters to hide their choices from their family or friends.

The first advert, starring Clooney’s Ocean’s Eleven co-star Julia Roberts, urged women to keep their votes secret from their husbands and was branded ‘sickening’ and ‘condescending’ by critics.