Meryl Streep Goes after Trump in her Golden Globes speech
In her nearly 6-minute address while accepting the Cecil B. Demille Award, the actress highlighted the importance of the "most vilified segments in American society right now" -- "Hollywood, foreigners and the press."
"Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if we kick them all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts," she said to huge applause from the room.
She continued: "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 powerful performances this year that did exactly that -- breathtaking, compassionate work"
Streep, however, said there was one "performance" this year that "stunned" her "not because it was good -- there was nothing good about it."
That, she said, 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."
While we're here, I'm gonna reminisce. Her speech reminded me of this:
Of course, Sean Hannity had to chime in and complain about the show. As if we care. But, since he opened his mouth, I replied. :)
And because I couldn’t resist.
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