“If he does it, I will do it”

George Clooney responded to former President Trump's call for him to step away from politics and focus on his television career by saying, “If he does that, I will do that.”

“He's a huge fan of mine,” the “Ocean's Eleven” and former “ER” star joked during an interview on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Tuesday when asked about Trump's comments this summer.

“That's a compromise I would make,” Clooney added.

In a post published on Truth Social in July, Trump attacked the Oscar winner, calling him a “fake movie actor.”

“Clooney should get out of politics and go back to television. He never really liked movies!” Trump said at the time.

Host Jimmy Kimmel also asked Clooney, one of Hollywood's top Democratic fundraisers, about his headline-grabbing July New York Times editorial calling for President Biden to drop out of the White House race. Biden withdrew his re-election bid less than two weeks later.

“It actually changed the world – it had a huge impact on the presidential election,” Kimmel told Clooney.

“I don’t know if that’s true,” Clooney, 63, replied.

“The bottom line is that it's very difficult to give up power, and President Biden has done something truly extraordinary,” Clooney said. “Frankly, I think that's really what we should focus on,” he added.

The move, Clooney admitted with a laugh, “could have gone very wrong.”

“It could still go wrong,” he said.

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