George Clooney praises ‘extraordinary’ Biden, discusses NY Times essay that pressured president to drop out

‘The bottom line is that it’s very hard to let go of power,’ Clooney said of Biden’s decision on Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show

George Clooney praised President Biden for withdrawing from his re-election bid after the actor wrote a New York Times piece encouraging him to do so earlier this summer.

During an appearance on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” the late night comic gushed over Clooney writing the opinion piece, while the actor insisted that Biden is the one who should be celebrated because of his sacrifice.

“The bottom line is that it’s very hard to let go of power, and President Biden did something really extraordinary. Really extraordinary,” Clooney told Kimmel on Tuesday night.