George Clooney is SLAMMED for demanding Joe Biden give up forward of Donald Trump’s election victory

George Clooney has been slammed by fans after he demanded that Joe Biden quit ahead of Donald Trump‘s election victory on Tuesday. 

In July, the Ocean’s Eleven actor, 63, notably penned an op-ed for the New York Times where he demanded Biden to drop out of the presidential race. 

Later that same month, the current 46th president of the United States announced his withdrawal of the presidential race, and Clooney soon backed Kamala Harris when she took his place. 

However, after months of campaigning from both parties, Donald J. Trump became the U.S. 47th president-elect after a major victory – currently holding 295 electoral votes and also winning the popular vote. 

Social media users have since shared their thoughts on George urging Biden to step down from the race months earlier. 

A veteran-led, political commentator group called altNOAA typed on X, ‘Someone bring me George Clooney. We need to have a…talk.’ 

Journalist Joshua Hartley uploaded a screenshot of Clooney’s op-ed piece and added, ‘Thank you George Clooney.’ 

One X user penned, ‘Trump should not forget to thank the Hollywood celebrities. Especially George Clooney.’ 

A fan of Donald Trump also referenced to the actor, and wrote, ‘It’s just occurred to me, we have failed to acknowledge George Clooney’s roll in this victory!’ 

‘What did George Clooney change his mind!!’ another fan shared, possibly referencing to the actor’s silence on social media following Trump’s win on Tuesday.

Another added on X, ‘I blame George Clooney he said no more money… and now look…’ 

‘Since I’m in a deep depression and feel like lashing out at someone, what’s the plan now George Clooney?’ one social media user typed out, while another simply added, ‘It’s all George Clooney’s fault!’ 

A professor at New York University named Laurence F. Maslon opened up to The Guardian in regards to celebrity endorsements.

‘I think endorsements have probably always done more for the celebrity than the person being endorsed.’ 

Maslon added, ‘It’s a way to hitch your star to somebody who seems to be good for you, and maybe there’s a certain kind of reflected glory in that.’ 

‘There’s probably not a Republican candidate for any office in the last 20 years who didn’t append the word liberal before the word Hollywood when speaking about it…People like George Clooney and Robert De Niro, I mean, who cares, frankly?’ 

Margaretha Bentley, a professor at Arizona State University, also told the outlet, ‘In the academic literature, research has shown that, while celebrity endorsements can increase civic engagement and voter registrations, it has not proven to have a direct impact on how people make their voting decisions.’ 

She also added, ‘Voters may do more research after a celebrity endorses, but they will vote based on their own values and not necessarily the values of the celebrity endorser.’ 

It comes just months after Clooney wrote an op-ed calling for President Joe Biden to step aside. 

He also first threw his support behind Harris in July – only two weeks after he said it was time to move on from Biden in the scathing article for the New York Times.

‘President Biden has shown what true leadership is. He’s saving democracy once again,’ he said in a statement to CNN, two days after Biden made the extraordinary decision to drop out of the race.

He endorsed the Vice President to succeed him as the Democratic nominee to take on Trump, saying: ‘We’re all so excited to do whatever we can to support Vice President Harris in her historic quest.’

Biden had faced an increasingly frenzied clamor to step aside after a disastrous debate performance against Trump in June.

Less than a month before he dropped out of the race, Clooney had raised $30million at a fundraiser for Biden.

However, the megastar, who hosted multiple fundraisers for Biden, wrote on July 10 that the president couldn’t win the ‘battle against time.’

The brutal opinion piece was seen as one of the turning points against Biden’s bid to cling onto the nomination in a bid to secure a second term.

The actor condemned Democratic party leaders for ignoring ‘every warning sign’ of Biden’s declining physical and mental health and for trying to defend his car-crash debate performance against Trump.

He added that Democrat voters ‘collectively hold our breath or turn down the volume whenever we see the president, who we respect, walk off Air Force One or walk back to a mic to answer an unscripted question.’

And earlier this month ahead of the election, the actor doubled down on his endorsement of Kamala Harris in a campaign advertisement urging men to consider how voting for Donald Trump will affect the women in their lives.

The ad, released by left-wing Christian organization Vote Common Good, reminded men that they can lie to their Trump supporting friends about how they voted. 

And it also urged them to think about how their vote will ‘impact the people you care about the most’ before casting their ballots.

The clip followed a father and his masculine-looking friends into the polls as they encourage each other to ‘make America great again.’ 

Clooney – who narrates the short video – then urged voters to think about their families and reminds them that ‘you can vote any way you want and no one will ever know’ before the man is seen voting for Harris.’ 

The ad is the second released by Vote Common Good that encourages voters to hide their choices from their families or friends. 

The first ad, starring Clooney’s Ocean’s Eleven co-star Julia Roberts, urged women to keep their votes secret from their husbands and was branded ‘nauseating’ and ‘condescending’ by critics.