Overview
- Trump used a New Year’s Eve Truth Social post to deride George and Amal Clooney for obtaining French citizenship and to belittle Clooney’s film career.
- French authorities fast-tracked citizenship for the Clooneys and their twins on Dec. 26, with officials citing the couple’s contributions; Clooney has praised France’s privacy protections for children.
- Clooney responded on New Year’s Day, saying, “I totally agree with the current president. We have to make America great again. We’ll start in November.”
- In his Dec. 30 Variety interview, Clooney said “Bari Weiss is dismantling CBS News,” and argued ABC and CBS should have fought Trump’s lawsuits instead of settling.
- CBS News chief Bari Weiss replied with an email inviting Clooney to visit the newsroom, as the division prepares a public relaunch of the Evening News on Jan. 5; coverage has cited a roughly $16 million Paramount/CBS settlement with Trump as context.