Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, has launched a ferocious attack on actor George Clooney and key Democratic Party figures as he hit out at the campaign to halt his father’s 2024 presidential bid.
The former first son delivered an expletive-laden broadside during a three-hour-plus YouTube interview where he spoke openly about his struggle with alcohol and drugs, the so-called laptop scandal and the pardon granted by his father during the last weeks of the former president’s administration.
But the 55-year-old’s explosive comments on efforts to get Joe Biden to drop out of last year’s race stand out from the rare interview he gave to Andrew Callaghan, who runs a news-focused YouTube show called Channel 5, which was released Monday.
Hunter Biden hit out at Clooney’s now infamous New York Times op-ed about his father, titled “George Clooney: I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee,” which questioned Joe Biden’s age and mental health. Hunter Biden then let rip at Clooney and others when the actor’s name came up a second time.
“Fuck him!” he began. “Fuck him and everybody around him. I don’t have to be fucking nice. No. 1, I agree with Quentin Tarantino. Fucking George Clooney is not a fucking actor. He’s fucking like … I don’t know what he is. He’s a brand.”
He went on to ask of Clooney, “What right do you have to step on a man who’s given 52 years of his fucking life to the service of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in the fucking New York Times to undermine the president…”
HuffPost has contacted a Clooney representative for comment.
As his rant continued, Hunter Biden condemned long-standing Democratic Party strategists James Carville (“who hasn’t won a race in 40 fucking years”) and David Axelrod (“who had one success in his political life and that was Barack Obama and that was because of Barack Obama”).
He then turned his ire on the team behind the Pod Save America podcast, calling them “junior fucking speech writers on Barack Obama’s Senate staff who have been dining out on the relationship with him for years, making millions of dollars.”
On X, Pod Save America co-host Tommy Vietor responded to Hunter Biden’s attacks on Democrats by saying, “It’s good to see that Hunter has taken some time to process the election, look inward, and hold himself accountable for how his family’s insular, dare I say arrogant at times, approach to politics led to this catastrophic outcome we’re all now living with.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Hunter Biden claimed his father’s June 2024 debate against Trump was a disaster because he was taking Ambien to combat tiredness after flying “around the world three times.”
“He’s 81 years old. He’s tired as shit. They give him Ambien to be able to sleep,” Hunter Biden said. “He gets up on the stage and he looks like he’s a deer in the headlights.”
Hunter Biden also blasted President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, and called both Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele “dictators.”
Referring to Bukele, Biden said he wants the El Salvador leader to send back the people the Trump’s administration deported to a notorious prison complex.
“I’ll tell you what, if I became president in two years from now, or four years from now, or three years from now, I would pick up the phone and call the fucking president in El Salvador and say, ‘You either fucking send them back or I’m gonna fucking invade,’” Hunter Biden said. “It’s a fucking crime what they’re doing. He’s a fucking dictator thug.”
“Bukele or Trump?” Callaghan asked Biden.
“Both,” he responded.
In a bizarre twist, Bukele posted a clip of the attack with an apparent reference to Hunter Biden’s past drug problems.
Also on immigration, Hunter Biden ripped Democrats for appeasing Trump by saying “people are really upset about illegal immigration.”
He said, “Fuck you. How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned? How do you think you have food on your fucking table? Who do you think washes your dishes?”
Watch the whole interview below.