Yahoo Movies Meryl Streep takes aim for Donald Trump in blazing Golden Globes speech
Meryl Streep has battered Donald Trump in a furious speech at the Golden Globes, as she picked up the Cecil B. DeMille award for her outstanding contribution to entertainment.
Urging the press to ‘hold power to account, and safeguard the truth’, she did not name Trump, but her intent was clear, using the whole of her time on stage to slam his behaviour.
“Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners,” she said, to wild applause.
“And if we kick ’em all out, we’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not ‘the arts’.”
To a silent room, she also spoke of, in her opinion, ‘the most powerful performance of the year’, when Trump mocked disabled New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski on stage during a rally.
“It kind of broke my heart, and I still can’t get it out of my head, because it wasn’t in a movie, it was real life,” she said.
“This instinct to humiliate when it’s modelled by someone in the public platform by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life. It gives permission for other people to do the same thing.
“Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.”
Her voice breaking, she finished by saying: “As my friend, the dear, departed Princess Leia said to me once, ‘take your broken heart, make it into art.’”
Trump has responded to the comments, telling the New York Times that Streep is ‘a Hillary lover’ and that he was ‘not surprised’ by her words.
“I was never mocking anyone, I was calling into question a reporter who had gotten nervous because he had changed his story.
“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.
“And remember, Meryl Streep introduced Hillary Clinton at her convention, and a lot of these people supported Hillary.”
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