George Clooney blasted President Donald Trump over his recent threat to unleash overwhelming military force against Iran’s infrastructure, calling the rhetoric a potential “war crime.”

In a Tuesday Truth Social post, Trump, 79, issued an ominous warning to Iran if the country did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway, and agree to a ceasefire deal before his 8 p.m. deadline.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump wrote in part. A two-week ceasefire deal between the U.S. and Iran along with Israel was subsequently reached ahead of the deadline.

On Wednesday, Clooney, 64, a longtime critic of Trump, slammed the threat while speaking at the “Dialogues on Talent” event in Cuneo, Italy.

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“Some say Donald Trump is fine. But if anyone says he wants to end a civilization, that’s a war crime,” Clooney said, according to Italian news agency ANSA.

“You can still support the conservative point of view, but there must be a line of decency, and we must not cross it,” he added.

The event, which was organized by Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney’s Clooney Foundation for Justice as well as the CRC Foundation and Collistioni Foundation, was attended by 3,000 high school students from across the province of Cuneo.

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The White House responded to Clooney’s comments in a statement on Wednesday.

“The only person committing war crimes is George Clooney for his awful movies and terrible acting ability,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung wrote.

On Wednesday, Clooney responded to the White House’s jab at his career and acting ability in a statement to Deadline. 

“Families are losing their loved ones,” Clooney said. “Children have been incinerated. The world’s economy is on a knife’s edge. This is a time for vigorous debate at the highest levels. Not for infantile name calling. I’ll start. A war crime is alleged ‘when there is intent to physically destroy a nation,’ as defined by the Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute. What is the administration’s defense? [besides calling me a failed actor which I happily agree with having starred in Batman and Robin?].”

Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.

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While giving his remarks, Clooney also expressed his concerns over Trump’s suggestion that he was considering pulling the U.S. out of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) due to its European members’ lack of support for the war against Iran.

“I’m worried about NATO,” the “Ocean’s Eleven” star said. “It has ensured that Europe, but also the rest of the world, has been safe. Dismantling an institution like this worries me. Aside from many mistakes, I believe the U.S. [with NATO] has also done many extraordinary things that have stood the test of time.”

Trump is set to discuss the possibility of the U.S. leaving NATO during a meeting with the alliance’s chief, Mark Rutte on Wednesday.

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Clooney and Trump have a history of publicly criticizing each other. In December, Clooney criticized ABC and CBS for settling lawsuits with Trump. 

CBS and ABC have shelled at least $16 million apiece to settle lawsuits brought by Trump. However, Clooney expressed his frustration that the networks didn’t fight back. 

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“If CBS and ABC had challenged those lawsuits and said, ‘Go f— yourself,’ we wouldn’t be where we are in the country,” Clooney told Variety.

“It’s a very trying time,” Clooney continued. “It can depress you or make you very angry. But you have to find the most positive way through it. You have to put your head down and keep moving forward because quitting isn’t an option.”

In a Truth Social post on New Year’s Eve, Trump celebrated Clooney and Amal’s decision to become French citizens.

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“Good News! George and Amal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France which is, sadly, in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration, much like we had under Sleepy Joe Biden,” Trump wrote.

The president also referenced how Clooney “dumped” former President Joe Biden after his presidential debate with Trump in July 2024. Following the debate, Clooney wrote an op-ed for the New York Times urging Biden to exit the 2024 presidential race. The “Jay Kelly” star later endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris in her run for the presidency.

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“Remember when Clooney, after the now infamous debate, dumped Joe during a fundraiser, only to go onto the side of another stellar candidate, Jamala(K!), who is now fighting it out with the worst governor in the Country, including Tim Waltz, Gavin Newscum, for who is going to lead the Democrats to their future defeat,” he railed.

Trump concluded his post by roasting Clooney’s acting career, writing, “Clooney got more publicity for politics than he did for his very few, and totally mediocre, movies.”

“He wasn’t a movie star at all, he was just an average guy who complained, constantly, about common sense in politics. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump added.

When asked for comment by Fox News Digital, Clooney responded with the following statement: “I totally agree with the current president. We have to make America great again. We’ll start in November.”

Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid is making the case that Muslims don’t need to assimilate in America.

“The assimilation defense — look how well we’ve integrated — is satisfying to make. But it concedes a premise I no longer accept: that a minority community’s right to be in the United States depends on its willingness to converge with the cultural mainstream. It shouldn’t depend on that. It shouldn’t depend on anything,” Hamid wrote Wednesday.

Hamid, who is Muslim, titled his piece “I’m tired of proving I belong in America,” responding to rhetoric from GOP lawmakers like Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., who last month wrote on X, “Muslims don’t belong in American society,” and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., who recently said, “I’m ready to get rid of the Muslims.”

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“Over the past decade, surveys have shown that American Muslims are patriotic, civically engaged and more likely than the U.S. general public to say that political violence is never justified. You’d think that would be enough. Except it shouldn’t have to be. And this is where it gets uncomfortable — for me, at least,” Hamid told readers, citing various data.

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“Muslims are different in certain ways. How could they not be?” he later wrote. “Islam shapes how its adherents think about family, sexuality and what it means to live a good life. Simply put, Islam is also a more public religion than Christianity. Muslim prayer is visually striking and often communal. If a Muslim doesn’t drink alcohol or fasts during Ramadan, that will be more noticeable to others.”

“Moreover, practicing Muslims — despite being repeatedly asked to — can’t disavow ‘sharia’ even if they wanted to. Sharia, roughly translated as Islamic law, includes guidelines on how to pray, fast and otherwise observe what it means to submit to God in daily practice,” Hamid continued.

The Post columnist insisted Muslims have “increasingly integrated into American civic life” while maintaining their religious commitments versus other minority groups, which he says begs the question “Why do Muslims need to be like everyone else?” He went on to cite data showing rates of Catholics among the Latino community have drastically fallen and “American acceptance” led to the decline of the Jewish population in the U.S. and the rise of their intermarriage rates.

“What strikes me about these stories is how much they resemble each other,” Hamid wrote. “The deal is always the same: You can stay, but you have to become less yourself. Less distinctively Muslim, less traditionally Jewish, less recognizably Latino. The specifics of your faith and culture — the things that make your community a community rather than a collection of individuals — are treated as obstacles on the path to real Americanness. The left and the right enforce this expectation. The right says: Assimilate or get out. The left, more gently: Assimilate and we’ll celebrate you. But the endpoint is the same.”

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Hamid went on to suggest that Muslim Americans are “more resistant to the secular pull of American culture” and their defense “should not rest on how ‘mainstream'” they become.

“A Muslim who prays five times a day and believes homosexuality is sinful is not less American than a Muslim who drinks alcohol and hasn’t been to a mosque in years. An evangelical Christian who believes marriage is between a man and a woman and home-schools his children is not less American than a mainline Protestant who marches in Pride parades. These are deep disagreements about how to live, and a country that is serious about pluralism shouldn’t treat them as problems to be solved,” he wrote.

He added, “America was not founded on the assumption that its citizens would eventually come to agree on foundational questions. It was founded on the more radical proposition that they wouldn’t — that people who disagree about God, religion and the good life could share a country anyway. Not because they would converge over time, but because convergence was beside the point. The question isn’t whether Muslims, Jews or Latinos will change. They will. The question is whether America will let them do it on their own terms.”

Tom Brady is not only a seven-time Super Bowl champion and one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, but he’s also a great recruiter.

New Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Kirk Cousins credited Brady, a minority owner of the Raiders, for giving him a big nudge during his free-agency decision.

“I texted (Brady), asked him to call me when he could, and he actually FaceTimed me—I was at youth baseball practice. So, I stepped away and just FaceTimed with Tom for a minute just to kind of get on the same page and understand his vision for the organization and kind of what he saw up ahead and if I would be a good fit for it or not,” Cousins said during a recent appearance on NFL Network’s “Good Morning Football.”

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“And I got off the call and I called my wife and I said, ‘That was a really life-giving call with Tom.’ You know, he gets it. He’s been where I’ve been and then some, and I think he understands what it—what it needs to look like, what it will look like, and I felt really like a shot in the arm, um, you know, after talking to him. And I felt like that was a big nudge for me to come to Vegas.”

Cousins said Brady has been “great” throughout the process and that his conversation with the New England Patriots legend was one of many he had while doing homework on the Raiders. The 37-year-old said Brady was in the building for the first day of OTAs and wants to be a resource.

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“He just wants to be a resource. I don’t know that he’s going to be around all the time, but he’s always a phone call, text away. And I think to have a guy who’s won seven Super Bowls, a phone call or text away who’s embedded in your organization, that’s got to be a positive,” Cousins said.

While the Raiders are widely expected to take Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Fernando Mendoza with the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft, there is no guarantee he will start in Week 1. Brady and general manager John Spytek have said numerous times that they believe in not playing a young quarterback right away, making it no sure thing that Mendoza would start Week 1.

Cousins also has familiarity with new Raiders head coach Klint Kubiak. During Cousins’ time with the Minnesota Vikings, Kubiak was his quarterbacks coach for two seasons and his offensive coordinator for another.

The Raiders’ plan could be to sit Mendoza under Cousins until they think he is ready to start and become the face of their franchise.

In 10 games and eight starts last season with the Atlanta Falcons, Cousins completed 61.7% of his passes for 1,721 yards with 10 touchdowns and five interceptions. The team had a 5-3 record in his starts, including winning the last four.

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