Hunter Biden slams Clooney on the anniversary of father’s election campaign exit

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21 Jul, 2025 10:05 PM3 mins to read

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In interviews published one year after Joe Biden abandoned his re-election bid, his son Hunter lashed out at actor George Clooney for leading the public charge on calling for the elderly US president to bow out. Photo / Mandel Ngan, AFP

In interviews published one year after Joe Biden abandoned his re-election bid, his son Hunter lashed out at actor George Clooney for leading the public charge on calling for the elderly President to bow out.

“F*** him. And everybody around him,” Biden’s younger son said in a profanity-laced interview with
independent journalist Andrew Callaghan, who has three million followers on YouTube.

“Really, do you think in middle America, that voter in Green Bay, Wisconsin, gives a shit what George Clooney thinks about who she should vote for?” Biden also said in a podcast with Jaime Harrison, former chair of the Democratic National Committee.

Clooney was one of the first high-profile Democrats to publicly call on Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, just three months before the election.

Biden, then 81 years old, was at the time facing growing doubts in his own camp about his health and mental acuity, after a disastrous debate with Donald Trump at the end of June.