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http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/12/george-clooney-donald-trump-jodie-foster-money-monster-cannes-2016<snip>
George Clooney has said that Donald Trump will not win the US presidential election as the American public will not be ruled by fear.
Theres not going to be a President Donald Trump, he said. Fear is not going to drive our country. Were not afraid of Muslims or immigrants or women. Were not going to be afraid of anything.
Clooney was speaking at the Cannes film festival press conference for Money Monster, a thriller directed by Jodie Foster that also features Julia Roberts and Skins star Jack OConnell. The film tells the story of a blowhard financial pundit Lee Gates (Clooney), who, along with his director (Roberts) is held hostage live on air by a man (OConnell) who risked his life savings on one of Gatess tips.
Clooney also used the press conference to attack cable news networks for allowing their output to slide further into infotainment, a move that he says helped Trump become a viable candidate for the presidency.
The empressof all
(29,098 posts)Funny....I said the same thing about Reagan and George W...twice.
apnu
(8,759 posts)Reagan sold himself as the sunny optimist, W didn't run of fear in 2000. W did run on fear in 2004 and it worked for 51% of the counrty. Clooney is talking about Trump's fear mongering, and how he thinks it will not help Trump in thr GE.
In general, successful Presidential campagns, especially ones without incumbents, are won on positivity and hope. Trump, pulling the angry white male thing is putting himself at a disadvantage.
spanone
(135,919 posts)onecaliberal
(32,976 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)instead of trying to force his way into controlling the US. He is not a leader. No one voted for him. Yes, we hope so greatly that he is right, but he is not right for saying it.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)We have nothing to worry about!
Mosby
(16,401 posts)who is george clooney anyway, wasn't he on some medical show?
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)So, either Clooney or that 8 Ball is right. The 8 Ball hedged a bit, Clooney projected certainty.
The American public has been ruled by fear many times. I bet George just forgot about that.
malaise
(269,254 posts)He was one of the few persons to take Trump seriously from day one.
abakan
(1,819 posts)flying rats ass what this bad actor says. I sure don't.
stupidicus
(2,570 posts)eom
LS_Editor
(893 posts)Otherwise, we have problems.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)them on...if they could only reach his heights of morality, wherein he highlights the virtues of being a moonshine-making, prison-escaping, con-man.
It's not like we would listen to a two-bit hack of a movie actor for things concerning the presidency of the country.