This is what George Clooney had to say after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."

"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store.

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I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.

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So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career.

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So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?

He lives in a gold tower & has 12 people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of thousands of people he employs & takes care of. He ran a company of 12 people!

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When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.

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He’s never had to do any of that. I just look at it & I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Blvd, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Blvd! FU!"

- George Clooney

actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist

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