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.”
A lot of Hollywood people live in other places, for that very reason, but they generally stay in America. He chose a foreign country, and it would be naive to believe that his, and his wife’s, opinions and actions in defiance of MAGA had nothing to do with that decision.