Celebrities React to Meryl Streep’s Emotional Golden Globes Speech
The red carpet was smouldering with sexy designer gowns at last night’s 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards, but things really heated up when Meryl Streep stepped onstage to receive the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award. During her acceptance speech, the 67-year-old Oscar-winning actress took aim at President-elect Trump (without actually addressing him by name), calling him out for mocking a disabled reporter while giving a press conference on the campaign trail. “This instinct to humiliate, when it’s modelled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing,” she said. Watch the video below from The Guardian to see more of Streep’s emotional speech about the President-elect.
No surprise that Twitter was abuzz following Streep’s speech, and the big question filling our feeds: When will Trump tweet his reaction? While the President-elect told the New York Times later that night that he didn’t watch the Awards show, he said he wasn’t surprised he had come under attack from “liberal movie people.” Then early the next morning, he fired off a trio of retaliatory tweets about the “overrated actress” who’s a “Hillary flunky.”
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
And the Twitter war is officially on! We’ve rounded up a handful of Hollywood’s reactions to the Streep-Trump match below:
If Trump believes that criticism of, opposition to, distaste for his election will eventually subside, he is mistaken.
It's just starting.— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) January 9, 2017
I love Meryl Streep but her anti-Trump speech was rank hypocrisy & just inflamed America's division.
My new column: https://t.co/oUtIFTTkVW pic.twitter.com/4MUl7TGg6K— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 9, 2017
"When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose" thank you #MerylStreep #GoldenGlobes
— Julianne Moore (@_juliannemoore) January 9, 2017
Meryl Streep giving an epic and powerful speech at the #GoldenGlobes. ??????
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson (@jessetyler) January 9, 2017
Meryl, you give me life. #GoldenGlobes
— Gina Rodriguez (@HereIsGina) January 9, 2017
Everything she said. Thank you #MerylStreep for you work and everything you said tonight. #empathy #GoldenGlobes
— Laverne Cox (@Lavernecox) January 9, 2017
Is there anyone better? #Meryl
— Anna Kendrick (@AnnaKendrick47) January 9, 2017
A true inspiration. Meryl, you beautiful soul. Thank you for using your voice to empower. #GoldenGlobes
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) January 9, 2017
We will need a lot of people as clear and brave as Meryl Streep if we are to fight the corruption, bad ideas and lies of Donald Trump.
— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) January 9, 2017
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