{"id":389891,"date":"2026-04-09T13:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389891\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:33:10","slug":"george-clooney-responds-to-war-crimes-charge-from-trump-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389891\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney Responds To War Crimes Charge From Trump White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/george-clooney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_george-clooney\" data-tag=\"george-clooney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Clooney<\/a> has responded to a catty White House statement following the actor\/director\/producer\/writer\u2019s public accusation that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> committed a war crime after the U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/trump-iran-threat-infrastructure-1236783334\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236783334\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote a threat against Iran<\/a> that \u201ca whole civilization will die tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhite House Communications Director Steven Cheung issued a statement to The Independent with the retort: \u201cThe only person committing war crimes is George Clooney for his awful movies and terrible acting ability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tClooney, who made his war crime charges in a speech to high school students in Italy, has taken proper umbrage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn a statement to Deadline directed at the Trump White House, Clooney said: \u201cFamilies are losing their loved ones. Children have been incinerated. The world\u2019s economy is on a knife\u2019s edge. This is a time for vigorous debate at the highest levels. Not for infantile name calling. I\u2019ll start. A war crime is alleged \u2018when\u00a0 there is intent to physically destroy a nation,\u2019 as defined by the Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute. What is the administration\u2019s defense?\u00a0[besides calling me a failed actor which I happily agree with having starred in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/batman-and-robin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_batman-and-robin\" data-tag=\"batman-and-robin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Batman and Robin<\/a>?].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrump said he was <a data-id=\"1236784103\" data-type=\"post\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/trump-agrees-two-week-ceasefire-iran-1236784103\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">postponing by two weeks<\/a> his threats against <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/iran\/\" id=\"auto-tag_iran\" data-tag=\"iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> as the countries continue talks designed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Clooney was reacting playfully in his statement to Deadline but was deadly serious in his recent public comments. \u201cSome say Donald Trump is fine. But if anyone says he wants to end a civilization, that\u2019s a war crime,\u201d he said in the speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs for his accolade bona fides, Clooney won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2006 for Syriana, and won the Oscar Best Picture for producing Argo in 2016. He has been nominated eight times over his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner George Clooney has responded to a catty White House statement following the actor\/director\/producer\/writer\u2019s public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[113701,321,969,22817,93,11196,61,11829,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-389891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-batman-and-robin","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-electionline","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-george-clooney","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}