Hunter Biden tore into actor George Clooney in a profanity-laced tirade after he publicly urged his father, former President Joe Biden, to bow out of the 2024 presidential race.
The former president’s son made his fiery remarks during an episode of “Channel 5,” a web series hosted by YouTube personality Andrew Callaghan.
The younger Biden did not mince words when asked about Clooney’s political comments, responding with a series of expletives.
“F— him, f— him, f— him and everybody around him,” he snapped. He went on to mock Clooney’s acting career, arguing that the Hollywood star was more of a “brand” than a serious performer.
Hunter Biden just went off on the Democratic Party:
"Fuck him and everybody around him… George Clooney is not a fucking an actor. He's a brand."
"James Carville hasn't won a race in 40 fucking years."
"David Axelrod had one success in his political life and that was Barack… pic.twitter.com/Cdk9t29gwZ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 21, 2025
He echoed filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s criticism of Clooney, claiming the actor had no right to wade into party politics.
“I don’t have to be f—— nice. No.1, I agree with Quentin Tarantino … F—— George Clooney is not a f—— actor,” Hunter hissed. “He is a f—— , like … I don’t know what he is. He is a brand.”
Clooney was among the first major Democrats to turn on Joe Biden after the president’s disastrous performance in his summer debate against Donald Trump.
In a July 2024 opinion piece for “The New York Times,” Clooney suggested Biden could not win and needed to step aside for the sake of the party.
Within weeks, the former president officially dropped out of the race and threw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris. Clooney later praised Biden for “saving democracy once again.”
But Hunter Biden clearly wasn’t in a forgiving mood. During the interview, he unloaded on a slew of other Democratic figures, questioning their authority and attacking their relevance.
George Clooney says everything that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did to destroy our country should be forgotten because Biden quitpic.twitter.com/aZVgydzynH
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) September 1, 2024
“What do you have to do with f—— anything? Why do I have to f—— listen to you?” he demanded.
He railed against Clooney’s Times op-ed and slammed longtime political consultants like James Carville and David Axelrod.
“What right do you have to step on a man who’s given 52 years of his f—— life to service of this country and to decide you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in the f—— New York Times.”
Biden: Think they will let us be cell mates?
Barry: No Joe. We are in bigger trouble than that. pic.twitter.com/GS4WPp2KBl
— Joe Rambo (@RamboAndFrens) July 21, 2025
Hunter also pushed back at a claim that his father didn’t know who the actor was at a star-studded Hollywood fundraiser last year.
“There’s a person that stands next to the president, and they say, ‘Mr. President, George Clooney and Julia Roberts,'” He explained.
“He may know George for the last 30 years, and he may have met him 15 times, but the guy on his shoulder, who’s usually a military officer, has one job. To say the name of the person that’s walking up. That’s it.”
Hunter also claimed that Clooney “made up” the story about “how the president had to be introduced to him” in order to “rationalize why he attempted to cut the knees out from the most successful president in the history of his party.”
Seeing Clooney and Biden (albeit, Hunter) trending together rn is so funny considering pic.twitter.com/4b8SQpGZ66
— out of context parks and rec (@nocontextpawnee) July 21, 2025
In the same interview, Hunter suggested that his father had been administered Ambien in the days leading up to the critical 2024 debate, and that the sedative contributed to Biden’s poor performance on stage.
“I know exactly what happened in that debate,” he told Callaghan.
He claimed his father had flown the equivalent of three times around the world in the lead-up to the event and was completely exhausted.
Hunter Biden appears to suggest President Joe Biden had been given Ambien before the debate last year and ended up looking like a "deer in the headlights."
There are no public records that indicate Biden was prescribed Ambien. pic.twitter.com/Xp1EL076gw
— Rusty (@Rusty_Weiss) July 21, 2025
“He’s 81 years old. He’s tired as sh—,” Hunter said, adding that the Ambien made him look like “a deer in the headlights” once he hit the stage.
The former president’s halting delivery and confusion during the debate became a watershed moment in the campaign, as he struggled to string together coherent answers for the entire nation to see.
Biden staffers blamed the performance on a cold, and the former president later claimed he was under the weather.
Less than 30 minutes in and this election is over. Biden brain farts for an uncomfortable eternity and says he killed Medicare.
This is over and the Dems are too inept to make the swap.
Well played reaction by Trump. 45 & 47#Debates2024 pic.twitter.com/TPCpI9ZB3s
— Free (@KaladinFree) June 28, 2024
Hunter, who was pardoned by his father in the final weeks of the Biden administration, also opened up about his battle with drug addiction.
He described the dangers he faced while trying to acquire crack cocaine, saying the environment was sometimes more hazardous than the drug itself.
“The places you go to get it are some of the most dangerous in whatever city you’re in,” he said. “Mainly for that reason, I learned how to make my own.”
He asserted that he had been sober since June 2019 and denied ever using drugs inside the White House, despite rumors to the contrary.
Hunter Biden believes crack cocaine is safer than alcohol!!
Remember: He’s the smartest man Joe knows! 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/i31tE3smCT
— Hunter Eagleman™ (@Hunter_Eagleman) July 21, 2025
“They’ve convinced themselves it had to be me,” Biden said of those who speculated he had brought cocaine into the West Wing.
“I’ve been clean and sober since June of 2019,” he claimed. “I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol or a drug. I’m incredibly proud of that.”
He scoffed at the notion that he would sneak cocaine into a secure area just outside the Situation Room.
Hunter Biden says the cocaine found in the White House was NOT his pic.twitter.com/OtnMKQP7gE
— Channel 5 (@Channel5iveNews) July 21, 2025
“And why would you bring cocaine to the White House?” He questioned. “Why would I bring it to the White House and stick it into a cubby outside the situation room in the West Wing?”
Biden also singled out conservative critics who have long fixated on his past, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump Jr., claiming they use his addiction struggles as political ammunition.
“It just was easier for them to slap the word ‘crack addict’ on me,” he said, arguing that it made him a convenient scapegoat.
“It made me an easier target for the Don Juniors of the world, the Marjorie Taylor Greenes of the world, just because of their inherent kind of meanness.”
Nothing to see here. Just Joe Biden’s crackhead son threatening to invade El Salvador 🥴
— Alex Strenger (@TheAlexStrenger) July 21, 2025
In one of the more inflammatory moments of the interview, Hunter turned to immigration policy, venting about the Trump administration’s decision to deport criminal foreign nationals to El Salvador’s notorious Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT).
Biden’s comments veered into a comparison with Nazi Germany, describing the deportation process as reminiscent of the Holocaust.
Biden Privilege 101: “PEOPLE ARE REALLY UPSET ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION… F*** YOU.”
“WHO DO YOU THINK CLEANS YOUR HOTEL ROOM?”
This by the way, is the smartest person Joe Biden knows. Classy stuff. pic.twitter.com/pGa2c4d6An
— Wesley Hunt (@WesleyHuntTX) July 21, 2025
“And what we’re going to do is we’re going to send masked men to this marginalized group, and we are going to take them, put them on planes, put them on buses, put them on trains, and send them to a prison camp in a foreign country,” he said, likening ICE’s efforts to Nazi tactics.
He went on to claim that CECOT was nothing short of a “concentration camp,” asserting that few, if any, criminals returned once they were sent there.
He compared the conditions in El Salvador to prisons in war-torn regions of Africa.
“I’ve been to those places in South Sudan. You think anybody’s getting out of those prisons? Ever?” he ranted.
Hunter also declared that if he were ever elected president, he would not hesitate to use military force to bring detainees back from El Salvador.
“If I became president in two years—or four years, or three years—I would pick up the phone and call the f—— president of El Salvador and say, ‘You either f—— send them back or I’m going to f—— invade,’” he said. “It’s a f—— crime what they’re doing. He’s a f—— dictator thug.”
The explosive interview was posted on the same day the former president had, one year prior, announced he would not seek reelection in 2024.
Watch Hunter Biden’s full interview on “Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan” here: