George Clooney has a confession to make about this editorial by Joe Biden.

During his performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday Clooney said that he made this comment in The New York Times “could have gone wrong.”

“It’s very hard to give up power,” Clooney said, praising Biden for doing “something really extraordinary” by stepping down and allowing Vice President Kamala Harris to run for the party’s nomination rather than seeking a second term. “I think that’s what the focus should be,” he said, rather than his very public criticism of the president that preceded Biden’s decision.

In his commentary, Clooney did not mince his words, writing after Biden’s performance in the debate against Trump: “We will not win in November with this president.”

With many questioning Biden’s mental fitness at age 81, Clooney urged party leadership to “stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw.” Clooney’s words must have been a punch in the gut for him as a powerful Democratic benefactor – because he was the most prominent figure calling for a change on the Democratic ticket at the time.

Kimmel said the letter had a “tremendous impact” on the presidential election, but Clooney tried to downplay that. “I don’t know if that’s true,” he said. “There were a lot of people (calling on Biden to resign).”

However, Clooney admits that things would probably have gotten very awkward if Biden had not resigned after his comment – ​​and that could still potentially happen, he said: “It could Despite it go badly.”

Kimmel jokingly called the Just Comment: “One of Clooney’s best pranks ever,” to which Clooney quipped, “You should have seen the stationery I wrote it on.”

They also briefly discussed Trump’s reaction to the comment on Truth Social in which he disparaged Clooney and suggested he quit politics and “go back to television.” Clooney responded, “If that’s what he does, that’s what I’ll do. That’s a compromise I would make.”