During this year’s Golden Globes ceremony, when Meryl Streep took the stage to accept an award, she managed to completely eviscerate Donald Trump without ever saying his name.
Trump, in typical Trump fashion, retaliated the best way he knows how: via 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…..
— 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
On Saturday night, Streep gave a speech at the Human Rights Campaign’s 2017 Greater New York Gala Dinner, and once again Trump was the focus of her attention, while once again not mentioning his name:
“‘Evil prospers when good men do nothing’… ain’t that the truth. We shouldn’t be surprised that fundamentalists, of all stripes, everywhere, are exercised and fuming. We shouldn’t be surprised that these profound changes come at a much steeper cost than it seems would lie true in the 20th century.”
“We shouldn’t be surprised if not everyone is totally down with it. But if we live through this precarious moment… if his catastrophic instinct to retaliate doesn’t lead us to nuclear winter, we will have much to thank this president for because he will have woken us up to how fragile freedom really is…”
“The whip of the Executive can, through a Twitter feed, lash and intimidate, punish and humiliate, delegitimize the press and imagined enemies with spasmodic regularity and easily provoked predictability.”
Streep was at the gala to collect the organization’s Ally for Equality Award for her efforts in supporting the LGBTQ community, and also took a moment to reference Trump’s burn:
““Yes, I am the most overrated, over-decorated, and currently, over-berated actress… of my generation. But that is why you invited me here! Right?”
By our count, that’s 2-0 to Streep. Your move, Mr President…
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