Screen legend Meryl Streep on Monday tore into Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric and denounced him as a bully who humiliated others as she received a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes, prompting the President-elect to dismiss her as one of the “overrated” Hollywood actresses who is a “Hillary flunky”.
Streep, an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton, slammed the next US President in her scathing speech while accepting the Cecil B DeMille Award at Golden Globes. The three-time Oscar winner took swipes at Trump’s divisive rhetoric without naming him as she cautioned against powerful people using their position to “bully others”.
Echoing British actor Hugh laurie’s earlier comment about how the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is part of “the most vilified segments in American society right now”, the 67-year-old actress said the association was made of —Hollywood, foreigners and the press. “But who are we and what is Hollywood, anywayIJ It is just a place with a bunch of people from other places,” Streep said in her speech while accepting the Cecil B DeMille Award. “Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy. And Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificatesIJ And (Indian-origin) Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in london, and is here playing an Indian raised in Tasmania,” she said.