Meryl Streep slams Trump in emotional awards speech

[sabra]

Source: The Hill

Actress Meryl Streep delivered an emotional speech railing against President-elect Donald Trump -- though never mentioning him by name -- during her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 74th annual Golden Globes on Sunday.

The iconic actress referred to the time Trump imitated a disabled New York Times reporter on the campaign trail, and said that particular, real-life performance broke her heart.

“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 did its job," Streep said of Trump's imitation of reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has a congenital condition affecting the joints. "It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth.”

“It was that moment, when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter -- someone he out-ranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back," she continued." It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can’t get it out of my head because it wasn’t in a movie; it was in real life.”

“This instinct to humiliate when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform — by someone powerful — it filters down into everybody’s life because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully to lose others, we all lose,” Streep said.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/313264-meryl-streep-slams-trump-in-emotional-lifetime-achievement

[Kath2]

1. Right on.

So happy she used her forum to speak up.

[busterbrown]

2. Vince Vaughn and every other Trump Supporter there...

can go fuck themselves.. Including Fallon who welcomed him with open arms the night he had him on his show.. Messing with his hair as though he’s really an o.k. guy.

[mnhtnbb]

4. I always suspected Vince Vaughan was kind of a dirtbag. No surprise

he'd be a Trump supporter.

[busterbrown]

13. His Friend John Favreau

can rot in hell too.

[True_Blue]

10. He's a big fan of Ayn Rand

[busterbrown]

14. who? Fallon or Vaughn n/t

[True_Blue]

15. Vaughn

[busterbrown]

17. Yep and Favreau is just as bad ( Swingers) n/t

[roamer65]

12. Vaughn is a first class asshole.

Shitty B grade actor as well.

[mnhtnbb]

3. Meryl really shamed him, although I doubt anything would shame Trump.

Good on her.

[Jacob Boehme]

5. Her words ring so true!

"...it filters down into everybody’s life because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing...."

Just like when a supervisor insults his or her subordinates; it's tacit approval for bullying and intimidation down through the ranks of the employees. As we all know, nothing ever good comes from this.

[The Wielding Truth]

28. Yes. Leaders have responsibilities. One is to be an example of integrity and empathy.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

32. Yes it filters down to his supporters but to

me its a horrible loss...8 years of looking up to and admiring Obama...our president. Now a hole

[ffr]

6. Bravo! Thank you for speaking the truth!

What a powerful speech.

[True_Blue]

7. I've always loved Meryl Streep

Just another reason to love her even more.

[iluvtennis]

21. +1000 nt

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

27. Same. She is a brave, intelligent, powerful woman.

So, I'm sure the Rs hate her.

My husband said, Any minute now Trump will tweet, "Streep is yuugely overrated! Not a good actress. Not attractive, a 4 at best. Sad."

[Pacifist Patriot]

36. He wasn't far off, was he?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

43. Trump is sooooo predictable.

He will do a bullying cretinous dishonest thing every time.

[Beartracks]

44. That makes him a perfect pawn for foreign manipulation. n/t

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[calimary]

47. We're watching a five-year-old in a grown-up body.

Being a spoiled pissant. Throwing a tantrum. And to think there actually were voters who saw fit to pick him for president...

[niyad]

51. I think that is an insult to five-year-olds. two, maybe. a very ill-tempered, spoiled rotten,

over-indulged two year old. (although, come to think of it, may be an insult to two-year olds as well. there is always the possibility that they will grow up into decent humans. not possible in orange foolius' case.

[calimary]

52. Orange Foolius!

GOOD one!!!

[niyad]

53. it is, indeed. I forget where I stole it, though.

[CentralMass]

8. Thst was great

[spartan61]

9. I only had the program on a short time

but I was so lucky to be able to watch Meryl Streep's speech. It was awesome. Simple and straight to the point. I'm sure the Orange Hemorrhoid will certain write a nasty tweet to her tonight.

[SFnomad]

11. I couldn't get that video to work at the "read more" link ... so I found another ...

... if anyone else has problems with the video at the link at the OP

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7647904/meryl-streep-golden-globes-2017-speech

[Equinox Moon]

16. Do you see how we feel from what she said and her actions tonight?

This is one of the reasons we needed ONE senator to object to certifying the vote this week. To stand up against this atrocity taking place. WE THE PEOPLE need our leaders to bring us hope by speaking truth and taking actions like Meryl did tonight.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028440893

Thank you Meryl! May our political leaders learn from you.

[iluvtennis]

22. +10,000

[elmac]

18. The Golden Globes

where the popular vote really counts. Jimmy Fallon

[AgadorSparticus]

19. Powerful speech. Long live the queen.

So girl crushing on meryl Streep right now.

[vlakitti]

20. It was a good and powerful statement

and a fine analysis of how bullying works. Good for her, over and again.

[Cha]

23. And, she never had to use his name. Everyone on the Planet knew

who she was talking about

[LittleGirl]

26. He who will not be named

will be referred to by me as the orange one, or found here on DU twitler.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

24. Brit Claire Foy of "The Crown" got in a bit of a dig.

Saying that we need more women leaders in the world.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

25. just replayed her speech. Powerful and moving.

I admire her so much. And am so grateful for her public voice. You know her heart is broken, yet she rises to the occasion brilliantly.

[mobeau69]

29. Bravo, Meryl

[duhneece]

30. She would make a far better President that the man making fun of the disabled

...a man who is not a real man by any definition.

[Raster]

31. Brava, Ms. Streep!

[Paladin]

33. Glad to see this kind of anger expressed by prominent individuals. (nt)

[mainer]

34. And, as usual, Trump responds on Twitter

@realDonaldTrump: Meryl Streep, one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes...

@realDonaldTrump: 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...

@realDonaldTrump: "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!

[treestar]

37. He's denying that mocking of the disabled reporter?

It's on tape!

[WePurrsevere]

45. tRump will deny whatever he wants to and his followers will just ignore or excuse it.

Our neighbor and gas station owner down the road told my husband, when he stopped in for gas a few weeks ago, that all of the tapes showing tRump being a racist, sexist, bigoted jerk aren't real. They've been made up by the left wing media to make tRump look bad.

They don't care about facts or reality. tRump knows this and takes advantage of it like the good huckster he is.

[cab67]

49. I've already seen multiple denials online from his followers.

It's been debunked! It's a liberal lie! Never happened!

Seriously - look at People Magazine's coverage of this (not a magazine I regularly follow), and you'll see what I mean.

A point often missed is that Ms Streep never said that Trump *mocked* the reporter. She said he imitated him. Which he visibly did, whether one wants to pretend it wasn't mocking or not.

[Achilleaze]

35. Thank you Meryl

[uhnope]

38. it's too late. Reality TV (Trump) and Hollywood (Streep) have celebrated the humiliation

that she condemns, for 20 years now. Maybe not her movies, but much of Hollywood films. People have learned that humiliating others is the way to be, and they voted for Trump, and it's not going to change.

[LanternWaste]

39. That's quite an allegation.

That's quite an allegation. Yet really nothing more than that...

[uhnope]

42. "The instinct to humiliate" she mentions--that is Reality TV

all those shows where humiliation is the reason for the show's existence. I don't watch much TV but when I realized that even the effin cooking show was based on the chef humiliating and firing prep cooks, I realized what an immoral lesson these shows teach. All the talent shows, like Trump's, do the same thing.

Do you actually need examples of how Hollywood movies celebrate things like might-makes-right, violence is the answer and torture?

Years and years of this, that's my "allegation."

[hamsterjill]

40. Poetry in Motion!

Thank you, Meryl. From one Nasty Woman to another!

[ananda]

41. She's so brave!

Applause

[llmart]

46. We need more speeches like this.

We need more prominent people speaking the truth. Each time something like this happens, it delegitimizes the a**hole she's talking about. It gives one more person the courage to speak the truth.

This was an amazing speech and I especially like how she called out the press. Always loved Meryl Streep but now I love her even more.

[calimary]

48. Meryl Streep was right!

She had me up on my feet, standing at attention, and then saluting!

[Flatpicker]

50. I don't care

About any speeches from Hollywood, or satire pieces on this election.

Words aren't working anymore. We have to get back to the business of making change at a local level.

Work on getting progressives into local offices and getting money out politics at the state level.
That will make a difference going forward.

The words? I appreciate the sentiment, but were getting our lands ruined, healthcare taken away, and equal rights being endangered at every level of government.