Donald Trump noemt Meryl Streep ‘over-rated’ na Globes

Donald Trump bestempelde Meryl Streep als “over-rated” in een serie van tweets, nadat de actrice zich tijdens de Golden Globes uitsprak over de president-elect. Trump zei op Twitter:

“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 Hillary flunky who lost big. For the 100th time, I never ‘mocked’ a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him ‘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!”

Afgelopen zondagavond nam Streep de Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award in ontvangst. Ze ontving gedurende haar carrière al 30 Golden Globe nominaties. In haar speech sprak ze Trump aan op een incident uit 2015, waarbij een New York Times verslaggever belachelijk maakte. Streep zei:

“An actor’s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like, and there were many, many, many powerful performances that did exactly that — breathtaking, compassionate work. 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 the moment where 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 head because it wasn’t in a movie, it was real life. And this instinct to humiliate when it’s modeled by someone in a public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life because it 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.”

Ook in een interview met de New York Times gaf Trump op maandag een reactie. Hij noemde Streep een “Hillary lover” en zei niet verbaasd te zijn om bespot te worden door “liberale filmmensen”.