George Clooney Unloads On Producer After ‘Morning Joe’ Host Claimed Obama Pulled His Strings: Report

Actor George Clooney was reportedly livid after “Morning Joe” host Mika Brzezinski suggested on live television that former President Barack Obama was pulling the “Ocean’s Eleven” star’s strings.

Biden biographer Chris Whipple revealed details of the heated conversation — between Clooney and an unnamed MSNBC producer — in his upcoming book about the 2024 presidential campaign, “Unchartered: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.”

The exchange began with Clooney’s shock op-ed after he attended a Hollywood fundraiser for former President Joe Biden, who was still running for re-election at the time. Clooney led with the fact that he considered Biden a friend — but then made it clear he believed it was time for him to step aside and bow out of the race.

“The one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can,” Clooney wrote at the time. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal‘ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”

Brzezinski was on the air the next morning and argued that it “wasn’t George Clooney” behind the op-ed.

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“This wasn’t George Clooney,” Brzezinski declared. “It just wasn’t … I think that Barack Obama has a lot of influence, and I think that there’s, there’s a lot there.”

Clooney, according to Whipple’s upcoming tome, was incensed. He reportedly called one of the “Morning Joe” producers and gave him an earful, asking, “How the f*** could you let her link me with Barack Obama saying he made me write the op-ed?”

“You f***ed me… You’re my friend. You should have stood up for me,” Clooney continued, even as the producer pointed out he had nothing to do with Brzezinski’s comments, according to Whipple.

“George, this is not a f***ing movie,” the producer reportedly said. “There’s no script. It’s just not a movie where you go script page to script page.”