Donald Trump News: George Clooney Calls Out GOP Candidate on 'Idiotic' Views on Immigrants
Donald Trump continues to lead the crowded field of Republican White House contenders, but it does not look as though Hollywood heavyweight George Clooney will be voting for the real estate tycoon.
The "Ocean's Eleven" star fielded questions about the 2016 campaign at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday and told the crowd that he had little sympathy for Trump's remarks about undocumented immigrants, Access Hollywood reported. Clooney was promoting his new film "Our Brand is Crisis" in the Canadian city.
The celebrity candidate had caused an uproar in the Latino community when he launched his campaign by alleging that Mexico brought criminals and rapists to the United States, allegations for which he later refused to apologize.
"Clearly, what he said is idiotic, of course it's idiotic," Clooney remarked about the comments.
"Who'd have thought Donald Trump would be at 30 percent? Anyone who says intolerant words should be laughed at, and I think that's what history will do," the 54-year-old actor added.
Fellow Hollywood star Matt Damon, who worked with Clooney on the "Ocean's" franchise, meanwhile, has little appreciation for Trump as well, EFE noted.
In late August, Damon -- who is married to an Argentine immigrant -- told the Spanish news agency that the tycoon's comments were "xenophobic," "disgusting" and "dehumanizing."
"He is talking about anyone who lives south of our border in inhuman terms. He is talking about my wife, my daughters," Damon said. "I think we are still laughing at this situation, but if you analyze the things he is saying it is disgusting and dehumanizing. We saw the [first] Republican debate to entertain ourselves but when it started to get ugly we turned it off."
Other entertainers -- including actors Rob Schneider and Eva Longoria, as well as musicians Shakira and Ricky Martin -- have also voiced disapproval of Trump in recent months, the New York Daily News recalled. Rock star Neil Young, for his part, publicly objected to Trump using his song "Rockin' in the Free World" at his campaign launch.
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