Biden didn't recognize this megastar - and huge supporter - in shocking memory lapse that left celeb 'shaken to his core' | 13 May 2025 | A rapidly aging Joe Biden couldn't even recognize George Clooney at a Democratic fundraiser in Los Angeles during the 2024 campaign -- leaving the Hollywood star "shaken to his core," a bombshell new book claims. The troubling incident, which unfolded at a June 13, 2024, star-studded fundraiser co-hosted by Clooney, was laid bare in the forthcoming book Original Sin by Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper, which chronicles the attempt to cover up Biden's decline while in office. "It was obvious to many standing there that the president did not know who George Clooney was," the authors wrote, according to an excerpt obtained by The Post. "Clooney was shaken to his core. The president [sic] hadn't recognized him. A man he had known for years."