George Clooney’s wife could be prevented from entering the United States due to the role she played in the charging of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant with war crimes following the ongoing conflict between Israel and Gaza.
For context, Amal Clooney, who has been married to actor George Clooney for 11 years, is a human rights lawyer working with a firm based in the United Kingdom. On April 25, 2025, Clooney and several other UK-based lawyers were warned that they may be barred from entering the United States by the Trump Administration due to their involvement with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
In addition, according to the Clooney Foundation for Justice, a non-profit run by George and Amal Clooney, Amal wrote a report that supported ICC arrest warrant applications, in which she asserted, “We unanimously conclude that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity including starvation as a method of warfare, murder, persecution and extermination.”
Prior to the April 25 warning issued to Amal Clooney, President Trump made it clear on multiple occasions that he had no love for George Clooney, a notoriously woke actor. In a now-deleted Truth Social post from March 23, 2025, the president criticized 60 Minutes and Clooney after the show ran an interview with the movie star, saying, “Why would the now highly discredited 60 Minutes be doing a total ‘puff piece’ on George Clooney, a second rate movie ‘star,’ and failed political pundit.”
Continuing his criticism of Clooney and 60 Minutes, President Trump wrote, “60 Minutes even fraudulently inserted Fake answers into her disastrous interview, aired just before Election Day, in one of the most embarrassing and dishonest events in broadcast history. And now George Clooney again? His press agent should be making a fortune!!!”
In response to the criticism received from President Trump on Truth Social, George Clooney reportedly said, “I don’t care,” adding, “I’ve known Donald Trump for a long time. My job is not to please the President of the United States. My job is to try and tell the truth when I have the opportunity.”
Continuing, Clooney said that he was “well aware of the idea that people will not like that…people will criticize that.” He then said, “Elon Musk has weighed in [about me]. That is their right. It’s my right to say the other side. The actor later added, “Governments don’t like the freedom of the press. They never have. And that goes for whether you are a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you’re on. They don’t like the press.”
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The warnings given to Clooney and other UK attorneys came not long after a February executive order in which President Trump warned that “The United States will impose tangible and significant consequences on those responsible for the ICC’s transgressions,” He then added, “Some of which may include the blocking of property and assets, as well as the suspension of entry into the United States of ICC officials, employees, and agents, as well as their immediate family members, as their entry into our Nation would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”
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