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The Hollywood actor is a prominent donor to the Democratic Party in the United States. In recent years, that has regularly led to criticism from President Trump, who has called him a “second-rate movie star,” among other things. According to Clooney, it didn’t bother him much. “It’s not my job to keep the President of the United States happy.”

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He could do it for under $500K.

Oh, is that all? Let me check my couch for loose change.

If he’s bought and invested more than a certain amount in a home as well, that also counts towards citizenship.

I'm sure he has a home in the South of France. Probably walking distance from the Cannes movie festival

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

I'm sure you're correct. And yes, these are trivial amounts for him -- and not exactly insane amounts if you simply owned a house in LA and sold it to flip it into EU citizenship. IMO the key point is that this is a 4-year process that I bet he started in mid-2021. Time is something he can't buy.

The US has its own citizenship by investment schemes as well, well before the "Gold Card" or whatever scam that is. Usually the base investment levels on these things are $100K-$300K and then you'll be on the hook for taxes and admin fees and a lawyer as well. It's why so many UK cits bought property in Portugal or Greece as they had lower levels for investment to count.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Home bought 2021, according to reports. Not long enough for the normal 5 year residency requirement, plus he's probably away lots. Looks fishy. Nice to be rich.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Cool to see he already knew back then (this is a comple guess, of course) that getting out of the US was needed. If this was the plan all along it still took this long, but there are obviously many more things than just the citizenship to make a move like that.