Weepy Streep hits Don
HOLLYWOOD’S most celebrated actress used the Golden Globes to slam the “performance” of the soon-to-be most powerful man in the world.
Meryl Streep ripped President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday night in a lengthy acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award
“Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick us all out, you’ll have nothing to watch except for football and mixed martial arts, which are not arts,” Streep said, fighting back tears.
Streep, who has won eight Golden Globes and boasts 29 nominations, echoed Globe winner Hugh Laurie, who had noted that the room was filled with the “most vilified segments in American society right now” — Hollywood, foreigners and the press.
“But who are we, and what is Hollywood anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from other places,” she said, describing her childhood in New Jersey and the non-Hollywood backgrounds of Sarah Paulson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Amy Adams, Natalie Portman, Ruth Negga, Viola Davis, Dev Patel and Ryan Reynolds.
“Where are their birth certificates?” she asked, referencing Trump’s years-long call for President Obama to prove he was born in the United States.
Moments after her speech, the hashtag #StandwithStreep was trending on social media.
Without using Trump’s name — or anyone else’s — Streep said she was still reeling from when Trump mocked reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition affecting the joints.
Trump has denied that he meant to mock Kovaleski.