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Meryl Streep is winning praise for her takedown of Donald Trump at last night's Golden Globes
Jordan Strauss Jordan Strauss
MERYL STREEP IS winning praise after she delivered a scathing speech about President-Elect Donald Trump at last night’s Golden Globes.
The veteran actress, who was honoured with the Cecil B. DeMille Award, took time out of her speech to touch upon an incident last year in which Donald Trump mocked a New York Times reporter with a disability while on the campaign trail.
“There was one performance this year that stunned me,” Streep noted. “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.”
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Streep, who was a vocal supporter of Hillary Clinton, stated that such behaviour “filters down into everybody’s life” and emboldens others to act the same way.
She implored the “principled press” to hold Donald Trump to account and asked those in the room to join her in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, an organisation that promotes press freedom.
She concluded her remarks by quoting the late Carrie Fisher.
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In a brief interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump dismissed Meryl Streep as a “Hillary lover” and said that he was “not surprised” to have been attacked by “liberal movie people”.
Trump also denied ever mocking the reporter’s disability.
While Streep’s speech has been condemned by many on the right, she has also been praised by many of her Hollywood colleagues, including Bette Midler and Ellen DeGeneres.
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