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Stacey Dash

Trump’s response to Meryl Streep says it all

Last updated on: January 9, 2017 at 7:22 am   by Stacey Dash

Trump’s response to Meryl Streep says it all 2017-01-09T07:22:11-07:00 Stacey Dash

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Meryl Streep gave a much-talked about speech at the Golden Globes saying President-elect Donald Trump made fun of a disabled reporter, according to IJR.

She said:

“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. 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.”

[…]

“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 kind of 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.”

Trump, of course, responded – this time with three tweets:

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

Hollywood is just upset that the rest of America is not taking their marching orders from them. Must hurt.

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