On Thursday's World News Tonight, ABC's David Muir spotlighted George Clooney's prediction about the U.S. presidential election later this year. Clooney contended, "There's not going to be a president Donald Trump. That's not going to happen." Muir hyped "the room full of international journalists applauding the actor" after he made his remark at the Cannes Film Festival in France. [video below]
Muir set aside 16 seconds of air time to his news brief on the liberal actor:
DAVID MUIR: Actor George Clooney saying this about Donald Trump at the Cannes Film Festival.
GEORGE CLOONEY: There's not going to be a president Donald Trump. (audience laughs) That's not going to happen. (audience applauds)
MUIR: The room full of international journalists applauding the actor — not everyone applauding back here at home. Clooney has raised money for Hillary Clinton.
The ABC anchor didn't include that Clooney went after the media for promoting the billionaire presidential candidate. The Associated Press reported on the Clinton supporter's criticism of the press in a Thursday article:
"There's not going to be a President Donald Trump," Clooney said. "That's not going to happen. Fear is not going to be something that drives our country. We're not going to be scared of Muslims or immigrants or women. We're not actually afraid of anything."
Clooney and his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney (who joined him on the Cannes red carpet for the premiere of "Money Monster"), last month hosted a pair of events in Los Angeles and San Francisco that raised millions for Clinton.
The actor said that Trump is the product of the collision of news and entertainment depicted in "Money Monster."..."Trump is actually a result in many ways of the fact that much of the news programs didn't follow up and ask tough questions," said Clooney...."More and more and more you hear these guys, their ratings go up because they can show an empty podium saying 'Donald Trump is about to speak,' as opposed to taking those 30 seconds and saying, 'Well, let's talk about refugees,' which is the biggest crisis going on in the world right now."
