Trump's 'wild jealousy' fueled bizarre smear campaign against legendary actor: biographer
A White House smear against a legendary actor stemmed from a decades-old grudge and wild jealousy, a Trump biographer said.
During an episode of Inside Trump's Head, host Joanna Coles and Trump biographer Michael Wolff tried to explain the White House's smear campaign against actor Richard Gere.
The smear started when White House Communications Director Steven Cheung responded to Gere's criticism of cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), according to reporting by The Daily Beast. In a post on X, Cheung brought up a rumor from the 1990s about Gere involving a gerbil....
Jul 22, 2026



