CLOONEY SLAMS TRUMP AS ELITIST

Los Angeles, Feb. 22: Hollywood star George Clooney has criticised US President Donald Trump and his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, calling them “Hollywood elitists”. During an interview on the French programme “Rencontres de Cinema,” the Oscar-winning actor mentioned Meryl Streep’s speech during the Golden Globes in January when she blasted the President as a bully and said it’s wrong for conservatives to dismiss Streep’s speech just because she is a wealthy actress, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “When Meryl spoke, everyone on that one side said, ‘Well that’s elitist Hollywood speaking.’ Donald Trump has 22 acting credits in television. He collects $120,000 a year in his Screen Actors Guild pension fund. He is a Hollywood elitist,” Clooney said. “Steve Bannon is a failed film writer and director. That’s the truth. That’s what he’s done. He wrote a Shakespearean rap musical about the LA riots that he couldn’t get made...He made a lot of money off of ‘Seinfeld’...He’s elitist Hollywood, I mean, that’s the reality,” he said.