George Clooney and President Donald Trump have an entangled past. “I knew him very well,” Clooney recalled to Variety in December 2025. “He used to call me a lot, and he tried to help me get into a hospital once to see a back surgeon.

With just a few hours left in 2025, Donald Trump went after George Clooney and his new French citizenship, apparently in response to a recent interview in which the actor recalled that the president w...