Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, mocked actor George Clooney for waiting until three weeks after his star-studded fundraiser where he raised millions of dollars for President Biden to acknowledge that he is “a vegetable.”
“George Clooney, this guy is a hero, huh? He comes out today, this guy held a fundraiser, raised tens of millions, was Biden's co-chair, three weeks ago. He comes out today and says, 'Guess what? The guy you saw at the debate, that vegetable, that's Biden, he's a vegetable. He was a vegetable three weeks ago.' He acts like he's doing something heroic.”
Clooney called on Biden to drop out of the 2024 race in a New York Times guest essay on Wednesday, writing: “It's devastating to say, but the Joe Biden I stood with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the 'big deal' Joe Biden of 2010. He wasn't even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”
He added that “party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn't see what we just saw” in the debate. “We are so terrified at the prospect of a second Trump term that we have chosen to ignore all the warning signs.”
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George Clooney, seen here with President Biden in 2022, called on the president to drop out of the race in an op-ed Wednesday. (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The actor joined a growing list of Hollywood elite figures and megadonors who have turned on Biden following the debate, where his halting, fragile and at times confusing performance alarmed his supporters. Members of Biden’s party, political allies and liberal media figures have also pressured the president to drop out of the race, warning that he cannot beat former President Trump.
“So what, George? Yes [Biden] “If you didn’t participate in the debate … and you weren’t a vegetable, were you going to keep your mouth shut?” Portnoy continued. “And by the way, if you just found out Biden was a vegetable, where have you been for two years? Everybody knows he’s a vegetable.”
Portnoy claimed that Biden can't “walk on and off a stage without getting lost, he talks about dead people like he had lunch with them yesterday. He can't ride a bike without falling over. He can't get on and off Air Force One without doing a flip. Don't tell me, he's a vegetable. He's been a vegetable for two f—— years. Democrats don't care.”
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He continued: “If I know it's a vegetable, if Miss Peaches knows it's a vegetable… [referring to his dog] “If Clooney knows he's a vegetable, if the Obamas know he's a vegetable, if everybody knows Joe Biden is a fucking vegetable, why did he have that debate? Because the Democrats wanted to show the world that they have no choice but to beat the shit out of him,” claiming that Democrats want to replace him with Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom he referred to as the “handsome guy from California.”
Portnoy claimed that Democrats had always secretly wanted to select California Gov. Gavin Newsom to run against former President Trump instead of President Biden. (David McNew/Getty Images)
Newsom has said he fully supports Biden and would not run against Vice President Kamala Harris if she were to replace him at the top of the ticket.
“It's all dirty politics,” Portnoy said.
He said Democrats “have been fine” for the past two years “shoving a vegetable in our face. They're fine with holding a fundraiser three weeks ago for a vegetable. So screw it, let's have Trump run against a head of lettuce. Really? The votes will probably be the same.”
He said people who voted for Biden don't actually like the president, they hate Trump.
“So fuck all these games and stuff. Everybody knows Biden is a vegetable. So let's get the vote done,” he joked. “Trump on one side, lettuce on the other.”
He added that he wanted to spare Clooney's op-ed “like, 'Oh my God, Biden's a vegetable. We can't. ' You fucking Democrats have known for two years that this guy is a vegetable, and you keep supporting the vegetable and shoving the head of lettuce in our faces.”
Portnoy joked that former President Trump should be running against a head of lettuce instead of President Biden. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
He accused Democrats of wanting to choose their own candidate instead of having a “free choice of other candidates, so Biden won and now the Democratic Party is trying to say who comes next. It's a game.”
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And he concluded: “They knew it was a lettuce. Everyone with a brain knew it.”
Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for Portnoy and Clooney but did not receive a response.
