Actor George Clooney has hit out at presidential hopeful Donald Trump, declaring he will never make it to the White House.

Speaking from the Cannes Film Festival, where he is promoting his latest film Money Minute , Clooney made his disdain for the Republican candidate clear.

“There’s not going to be a President Donald Trump,” Clooney said to cheers from the crowd.

“That’s not going to happen.

Clooney said Trump’s campaign would fail because it was centred on scaring the American people.

“It’s not going to happen because fear is not going to be something that drives our country,” he said.

“We’re not going to be scared of Muslims, or immigrants or women.”

He went on to point the finger at the media, claiming Trump caused the media to focus too much on ratings and not enough on journalism.

“Trump is actually a result in many ways of the fact that much of the news programs didn’t follow up and ask tough questions, that’s the truth,” he said.

“It’s really easy because your numbers go up.

“The ratings go up because they can show an empty podium saying ‘Donald Trump is about to speak’ as opposed to taking those 30 seconds and saying ‘let’s talk about refugees’.”

Clooney is a long-time supporter of Hillary Clinton.

In April he and his wife Amal Clooney held a fundraiser at their home for the Democrat, where he raised what he described to NBC as an “obscene amount of money” for her campaign.