
Amal Clooney and her baby bump may have outshone her husband on the red carpet at the 42nd Annual César Awards in France on Friday night, but when George Clooney got on stage to accept his honorary award he stole the spotlight back.

Clooney, 55, was honored with the prestigious César d’Honneur Award for his services to film.

He took the opportunity to criticize President Donald Trump, without directly calling him out by name.

In his nearly seven-minute acceptance speech, Clooney addressed the political climate in the US that's already affecting the world.

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It’s not often that Clooney is overshadowed, but the veteran star was eclipsed on the red carpet by pregnant wife Amal, 39, at the César Awards on Friday night in Paris

George Clooney, 55, was honored with the prestigious César d’Honneur Award for his services to film at the 42nd Annual César Awards in France on Friday night. Clooney used the opportunity to criticize President Donald Trump

In his nearly seven-minute acceptance speech, Clooney addressed the political climate in the US that's already affecting the world

French actor Jean Dujardin, who was onstage with Clooney in order to translate his speech for the French audience, added his own dig: 'Donald Trump is dangerous for the world'

Clooney said in his speech: 'As we stand here today the world is going through some pretty momentous changes, not all for the best. As citizens of the world we’re going to have to work harder and harder not to let hate win'

'As we stand here today the world is going through some pretty momentous changes, not all for the best, 'Clooney said. 'As citizens of the world we’re going to have to work harder and harder not to let hate win.

'Love trumps hate, courage trumps fear and always right trumps wrongs.'

French actor Jean Dujardin, who was onstage with Clooney in order to translate his speech for the French audience, added his own dig: 'Donald Trump is dangerous for the world.'

Clooney and Dujardin previously starred alongside each another in the 2014 movie The Monuments Men.

This is the latest example of Clooney speaking out against Trump.

In a February 22 interview with The Daily Beast, Clooney called Trump a 'Hollywood elitist' due to his numerous TV and film credits.

'Donald Trump has 22 acting credits in television... He collects $120,000 a year in his Screen Actors Guild pension fund. Uhh? He is a Hollywood elitist,' he said.

But at least Trump was relatively successful in the industry, he said, unlike his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who Clooney called a 'failed film writer and director'.

'He wrote a Shakespearean rap musical about the LA riots that he couldn’t get made. He made a lot of money off of Seinfeld. He’s elitist Hollywood, I mean that’s the reality,' Clooney said.

And Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and France's foreign minister pushed back at Trump for insulting the City of Light on Friday in a speech.

Trump evoked his friend Jim, 'a very, very substantial guy,' in an address at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Jim used to be a regular visitor to Paris, Trump said, but hasn't made the trip in four or five years because 'Paris is no longer Paris'.

'Take a look at what's happened in France. Take a look at Nice and Paris,' the president said in an apparent reference to last year's Bastille Day attack in Nice and the 2015 Paris attacks.

He said Jim used to visit Paris each summer. 'It was automatic... He wouldn't miss it for anything.'

'Now he doesn't even think in terms of going there. Take a look at what's happening to our world folks and we have to be smart. We have to be smart. We can't let it happen to us,' Trump said.

Pregnant Amal Clooney struggled to contain her emotions as she watched from her vantage point in the audience

Hidalgo tweeted a photo of herself alongside Mickey Mouse and Minnie and said: 'To @readDonaldTrump and his friend Jim, in @LaTour Effel we celebrate the dynamism and spirit of openness of Paris with Mickey and Minnie.'

In another tweet, with the hashtag #Donald&Jim, Hidalgo said American tourist reservations are up 30 per cent in 2017 so far compared to last year.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault offered his own proof that Americans like not just Paris but all of France: '3.5 million Americans visited France in 2016,' he tweeted. 'They will always be welcome.'

Clooney used the red carpet to speak up for Paris as he headed into the awards ceremony.

'Yes, no one wants to go to Paris anymore because it's horrible here, apparently,' he said as he entered the theater. 'We have some things to work on in the United States,' he said, without ever naming Trump.

In a veiled illusion to France far-right presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, Clooney added: 'I think you guys have some of the same issues here so... good luck.'

Clooney's César speech wasn't all political.

He also paid an emotional tribute to his wife, who is pregnant with twins, adding: 'To my wife Amal, there isn’t a day that goes by that I’m not proud to be your husband.

'And I am excited about the years to come, and particularly the months to come. I love you very much.'

Amal's growing baby bump was evident as she posed for photos alongside her husband

Clooney's mother, Nina, recently revealed the couple are expecting a boy and girl.

In an interview with RadarOnline, the 77-year-old former city councilwoman shared her excitement over the expected June arrival for Clooney and his glamorous wife.

'It will be one of each! Yes, a boy and a girl. That’s what I’ve been told,' she said from her Kentucky home. 'How marvelous! My husband and I are extremely excited.'

Clooney recently spoke for the first time of his 'excitement' at the news that he and Amal, 39, will be welcoming twins this summer.

The actor said: 'We are really happy and really excited. It's going to be an adventure. We've sort of embraced it all with arms wide open.'

Speaking to French program Rencontres de Cinema, Clooney said his friends were 'very supportive' of the news, despite having given him a hard time at first.

'Then it got really quiet,' he said. 'And they all just started making baby crying noises, and the whole table just busted up laughing.'

Parenthood has been a long time coming for George, who will be 56 by the time his twins are born.

Clooney, who once swore he'd never remarry or have children of his own, met the Beirut-born human rights lawyer in 2013.

He traded in his bachelor status after proposing to Amal in April 2014.