Receiving the 2017 Golden Globe Awards’ Cecile B. DeMille lifetime achievement award at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, 67-year-old three-time Oscar-winning actress Meryl Sreep used her time on stage to rip 70-year-old President-elect Donald Trump. Streep, who attended the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, was one of Hillary’s biggest celebrity supporters, campaigning for her around the country. Re-opening Hillary’s failed campaign, Streep took a cheap shot at Trump, receiving applause from Hollywood’s liberal elites but actually disgraced herself by turning her acceptance speech into a tasteless attack. “It sank its hooks in my heart,” Streep told the Hilton ballroom audience. “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 . . .” rambled Streep.
Streep raised Hillary’s old talking points about Trump, allegedly he mocked disabled New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski. Reacting to Kovaleski’s denial of an article written in 2001 about Muslim street celebrations after Sept. 11 in New Jersey, Trump expressed his frustration with Kovaleski’s retraction. At the time, Trump was recalling celebrations after Sept. 11, something his detractors insisted never happened. “It was a moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat of our country imitated a disabled reporter. Someone he outranked in privilege, power, and capacity to fight back,” insisted Streep. Hillary brought up Trump’s exchange with Kovaleski to highlight his insensitivity to minorities. Raising the issue again at the Globes only 11 days before Trump’s inauguration could not be more contemptuous, especially given Hillary plans to attend the Jan. 20 event.
Streep barely kept her remarks coherent playing up minority discontent with Trump’s unexpected Election Day victory. “She’s a Hillary flunky who lost big,” Trump tweeted the morning after Streep’s tirade. “She is a Hillary flunky who lost big. For the 100th time, I never mocked a disabled reported [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!” Tweeted Trump. However Trump reacted to Kovaleski, Streep should not repeat moribund Hillary talking points at the Golden Globes. Going off on Trump because she didn’t get her way on Nov. 8 speaks volumes about her pettiness. “It kind of broke my heart when I saw it,” said Streep, referring to Trump’s animated response to Kovaleski changing his New York Times story.
Streep admitted, whether true or not, she keeps thinking about Trump’s reaction to Kovaleski. “And I still can’t get it out of my head, because it wasn’t a movie. I was real life . . .” said Streep going on-and-on about how she was so offended by Trump’s actions. Streep knows that Kovaleski was only one minor example of Trump’s alleged insensitivity to minorities. When the Kovaleski incident faded, Hillary brought up Trump’s response of Ohio Judge Gonzalo Curiel, questioning his objectivity in the Trump University case because of his family’s Mexican heritage. Hillary blasted Trump for suggesting that some illegal immigrants from Mexico were rapists and criminals. When that story fizzled, Hillary moved on to Trump’s insensitivity to a Gold Star Muslim military family Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Humayun Khan was killed June 8, 2004 in Iraq.
Streep said nothing about Trump’s remarks regarding the Khan family. After listening to Khizr rip Trump at the DNC convention, Trump asked why his wife Ghazala didn’t say anything while on stage. Trump’s remarked prompted denunciations from practically everyone in the media, sparking hateful tirades from Democrat and Republican elected officials, especially Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), both key members of the “Never Trump” movement. Streep’s phony remarks about Kovaleski raised eyebrows on one of Hollywood’s biggest nights. “And 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 kinda gives permission for other people to do the same thing . . “ said Streep, rambling on about Hillary’s old anti-Trump talking points.
Streep’s tirade at the Golden Globes shows how Hollywood’s liberal elites don’t accept the Nov. 8 Election. Re-hashing old Hillary talking points offers nothing other than sour grapes only a week-and-half before Hillary witnesses Trump’s inauguration. “Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose,” said Streep, in a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. No one in Hollywood was more “disrespectful” than Streep ranting about Hillary’s old talking points. Taking a cheap shot a Trump got Streep some headlines but no doubt antagonized Trump’s followers who find Hollywood and the liberal press despicable. While applauded by some, most members of the Golden Globe audience had to question Streep’s judgment, turning her acceptance speech into grandstanding on the national stage.
