Barbra Streisand continues to support President Biden amid George Clooney’s call for him to step down
Megastar and Democratic booster Barbra Streisand isn’t hopping on George Clooney’s bandwagon to oust President Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee.
Though she’s staying mum on Clooney’s statements so far.
Streisand, Clooney, Julia Roberts and Jimmy Kimmel co-hosted a $28 million Hollywood fundraiser for Biden’s campaign last month — weeks before he debated Donald Trump.
But Clooney lately critiqued the president’s behavior at the fundraiser in an op-ed calling for him to drop out of the race.
“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,” the “Ocean’s Eleven” star wrote. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
Streisand, Kimmel and Roberts haven’t voiced their opinion on whether they agree with Clooney.
Reps for Kimmel and Roberts did not get back to us, and Streisand’s spokesperson didn’t comment.
But if her X account is any indication, the EGOT winner is still backing the president bigtime.
Streisand has been posting up a storm since Biden debated Trump, 78, last month.
“Debates are not governing. They are about televised theatrics. Biden is accomplished at governing. He is experienced and has accomplished a great deal,” she wrote the evening of the debate.
A few days after Biden’s performance, she reposted a New York Times op-ed penned by former chief Republican strategist, Stuart Stevens, urging Democrats to “stop panicking.”
“This is very sound advice from a seasoned GOP operative. Biden had a bad night. Enough of the Democratic panic,” Streisand wrote.
On July 2, she contrasted the two candidates, explaining, “Donald Trump constantly attacks our country. He praise dictators not our democratic allies. Joe Biden loves this country and knows despite our problems, we remain the greatest nation in the world.”
Streisand, 82, also praised Biden, 81, just this week, informing her followers that he “shows up every day to work for a strong economy with climate resilience and lower costs,” while “Trump spouts gibberish at his rallies about electric boats and sharks and showers that can’t wash his hair and then plays golf,” she wrote.
“Which one of these men is more off the rails?” she asked.
So far, Streisand certainly appears to still be on board with Biden.
