Inside George Clooney's ongoing feud with Donald Trump

Hollywood icon has gone to toe-to-toe with and the feud has continued. It all started when the US President called the A-lister a "Hollywood Elite", and the Batman actor responded. Back in 2017, Clooney sat down for an interview with Daily Beast where he lambasted Trump for calling him a "Hollywood elite living in a bubble". Last month, the actor, 63, brushed off the commander-in-chief's latest insults when he responded to a social media post where Trump slammed him as a "second-rate movie 'star' and failed political pundit".

The dig was in response to a "60 Minutes" segment where Clooney discussed the importance of freedom of the press. "I don't care," Clooney told CBS of Trump's comments about him. "I've known Donald Trump for a long time. My job is not to please the president of the United States. My job is to try to tell the truth when I can and when I have the opportunity."

He added, "I'm well aware of the idea that people will not like that. There will be people who criticise that. Elon Musk has weighed in every once in a while. That's their right do it, and it's my right to say the other side."

In a Truth Social post on March 23, Trump slammed 60 Minutes for its "puff piece" on Clooney, who the president said "dumped former President Joe Biden like a dog".

Clooney wrote an op-ed in the New York Times last year arguing that the Democrats should replace Biden as a nominee in the presidential run - which in the end the party did with former Vice President Kamala Harris running in the 2024 election.

In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Clooney said this op-ed was his "civic duty".

After Trump won the election, the actor said on The Late Show in February he was taking the same attitude he tells his son to use when he loses chess matches.

"He gets upset, and I (tell him), listen, you shake the guy's hand, you say, 'Good game, I'll get you next time,'" Clooney said. "You've got to live by those rules, which is, 'Alright, good. Good for you. Go. I hope you do well, because our country needs it, and then we'll meet you in three-and-a-half years and see where we go next.'"

This is not the first time the ER star and the US leader have gone back and forth.

Back in 2017, Clooney had sat down with the Daily Beast to discuss several topics from his acting career to the cause of the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the US Presidential Elections, and Trump, who had called him the "Hollywood Elite".

The actor fired back: "So this idea that I'm somehow the 'Hollywood elite' and this guy who takes a s**t in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable. People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of 'coastal elites' living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?

"He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn't run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people! When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction."

Clooney highlighted the fact that the President had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, while Clooney himself did not.

The actor finished: "He's never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say 'Hollywood elite.' Hollywood elite? I don't have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! F**k you!"