<![CDATA[George Clooney makes $500K donation to mock Trump’s Juneteenth claim]]> https://usagag.com/2020/06/20/george-clooney-makes-500k-donation-to-mock-trumps-juneteenth-claim/ Sat, 20 Jun 2020 00:42:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://usagag.com George Clooney makes $500K donation to mock Trump’s Juneteenth claim George Clooney pledged to make a $500,000 donation to a human rights charity in honor of Donald Trump as part of a sarcastic dig at the president.

Clooney issued a statement on the holiday Juneteenth, which commemorates the last of enslaved Americans being emancipated: “Thank you President Trump for ‘making Juneteenth famous.’ Much like when Bull Connor made ‘Civil Rights’ famous. My family will be donating [$500,000] to the Equal Justice Initiative in honor of your heroic efforts.”

Trump said that “nobody had ever heard of” Juneteenth before he made the holiday “very famous” by scheduling a rally on the same day.

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