Actor George Clooney hurled one swipe after another at Present Donald Trump and his administration earlier this week, telling the Film at Lincoln Center’s 51st annual Chaplin award audience America is in “a struggle for the very soul of this republic.”
“I can’t be here on a night like tonight and just ignore everything that’s going on in the world,” Clooney said.
“I disagree with everything that this administration stands for, but there’s no place for the kind of violence we saw two nights ago in Washington, D.C. Nor is there a room for this kind of violence in Minnesota with Alex Pretti or Renée Good,” the Ocean’s 11 star said of the anti-immigration protesters killed by federal agents earlier this year.
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Drawing parallels to past politically tense moments in American history to now, Clooney said “It seems to me that there is a struggle that has to be won against
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