Trump Lashes Out at ‘Hillary Lover’ Meryl Streep and Denies He Mocked Disabled Journalist (Which He Did)
Trump Tries, Fails to Successfully Hit Back at ‘Liberal Movie People’ Like ‘Over-Rated’ Meryl Streep
As many predicted to a tee, Donald Trump is angry and lashing out at Meryl Streep. The award-winning actress Sunday night delivered a Golden Globes acceptance speech for the ages, taking down not only the president-elect but Trumpism itself, much to the delight and awe not only of her fellow actors but to liberals across the nation.
Trump is delivering a one-two punch in return, first goes to the newspaper he most-hates, The New York Times, then to his platform of choice – Twitter – to try to finish the job.
The president-elect, who on Sunday was still posting tweets re-litigating the election on Twitter, early Monday morning denounced the highly-respected and beloved Meryl Streep as a “Hillary lover” to the Times. The paper of record reported Trump, in a brief phone interview, “said he had not seen Ms. Streep’s remarks or other parts of the Globes ceremony, which were broadcast on NBC, but he added that he was ‘not surprised’ that he had come under attack from ‘liberal movie people.'”
Streep, who used her acceptance speech for receiving the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award, denounced Trump by pointing to the “performance” he delivered when he mocked a disabled reporter, which she said “stunned” her and “sank its hooks” in her heart.
“Not because it was good – there was nothing good about it,” Streep shared. “But it was effective and it did its job,” she continued.
“It made its intended audience laugh. And show their teeth. It was that moment, when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country, imitated a disabled reporter. Someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back.”
She denounced “this instinct to humiliate,” noting that “when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful it filters down into everybody’s life.”
“When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose,” she observed.
“Disrespect invites disrespect,” Streep warned. “Violence begets violence.”
Trump told the Times Monday morning, “I was never mocking anyone,” as he has claimed many times before, though video of his ugly antics has convinced many, including fact-checkers at PolitiFact, he isn’t being honest.
“I was calling into question a reporter who had gotten nervous because he had changed his story,” about the 9/11 attacks, which is also questionable.
“People keep saying I intended to mock the reporter’s disability, as if Meryl Streep and others could read my mind, and I did no such thing,” Trump insisted.
He then took to Twitter, posting the very tweets many predicted he would:
Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn’t know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017
Hillary flunky who lost big. For the 100th time, I never “mocked” a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him…….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017
“groveling” when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad. Just more very dishonest media!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017
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