George Clooney hits back at Donald Trump's 'fake movie star' taunts

said he 'doesn't care' as he shared his thoughts on comments about him. The President of the US recently slammed the Oscar-winning actor after the latter wrote an op-ed piece urging former president to step down from re-election and allow a younger Democratic candidate to run.

In the piece called 'I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee' for the New York Times from last summer, the 63-year-old said Biden could continue his work helping democracy by letting the younger candidate take over, giving them a bigger chance of beating the current POTUS. It wasn't long before Trump labelled Clooney a "fake movie actor" before branding both him and Biden "rats".

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Trump said at the time: "So now fake movie actor George Clooney, who never came close to making a great movie, is getting into the act. He’s turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are."

Clooney finally responded to the comments during an appearance on CBS Mornings. Speaking to Gayle King, he said: "I don’t care. I’ve known for a long time.

"My job is not to please the president of the United States. My job is to try and tell the truth when I can and when I have the opportunity. I am well aware of the idea that people will not like that.”

He continued: “People will criticise that. Elon Musk has weighed in [about me]. That is their right. It’s my right to say the other side.”

Clooney said last week he felt it was his "civic duty" to champion another nominee for the recent elections. He said on CNN: "I don’t know if it was brave.

"It was a civic duty. When I saw people on my side of the street not telling the truth, I thought that was time to." He also touched upon the backlash he received.

He said: "The idea of freedom of speech is you can’t demand freedom of speech and then say, ‘But don’t say bad things about me.’ That’s the deal, you have to take your stand if you believe in it. Take a stand for it and then deal with the consequences.”

During Clooney's interview on CBS on Monday, he also touched upon his marriage to Amal Clooney - with who he has been married to over a decade.

He stood by his claim that the couple have yet to have an argument. He admitted he even said the same thing about his marriage the last time on the show.

"I remember we were here with you once before and I remember we said we'd never had an argument. We still haven't. We're trying to find something to fight about!" he explained.

"I feel so extraordinarily lucky to have met his incredible woman. I feel as if I hit the jackpot. There isn't a day that goes by where I don't think I'm the luckiest man in the . So it's great."

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