Meryl Streep slams Donald Trump. Trump throws twitter tantrum (of course)
On Sunday night, award-winning actor Meryl Streep, in accepting the coveted Cecil B. DeMille Award, took aim at Donald Trump:
But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good; there was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. 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. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can’t get it out of my head, because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kinda gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose. O.K., go on with it.
And obviously, Ms. Streep scored a direct hit, because the loser of the popular vote (by millions) and unpresidented-in-waiting Donald Trump lashed out at Streep on—where else?—twitter:
Trump went on to sob that Streep is a “Hillary flunky” and to deny that he ever mocked that reporter (never mind the video of him doing exactly that).
What a pathetic little man. And kudos to Meryl Streep for pointing that out on the national stage.