Meryl Streep slams Trump in emotional awards speech
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 cant get it out of my head because it wasnt in a movie; it was in real life.
This instinct to humiliate when its modeled by someone in the public platform by someone powerful it filters down into everybodys 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
So happy she used her forum to speak up.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)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 hes really an o.k. guy.
mnhtnbb
(31,392 posts)he'd be a Trump supporter.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)can rot in hell too.
True_Blue
(3,063 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)True_Blue
(3,063 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)Shitty B grade actor as well.
mnhtnbb
(31,392 posts)Good on her.
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)"...it filters down into everybodys 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
(11,415 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)me its a horrible loss...8 years of looking up to and admiring Obama...our president. Now a hole
ffr
(22,670 posts)What a powerful speech.
True_Blue
(3,063 posts)Just another reason to love her even more.
iluvtennis
(19,861 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)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
(24,653 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)He will do a bullying cretinous dishonest thing every time.
Beartracks
(12,814 posts)==================
calimary
(81,302 posts)Being a spoiled pissant. Throwing a tantrum. And to think there actually were voters who saw fit to pick him for president...
niyad
(113,323 posts)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
(81,302 posts)GOOD one!!!
niyad
(113,323 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)spartan61
(2,091 posts)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
(3,473 posts)... 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
(6,344 posts)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
(19,861 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)where the popular vote really counts. Jimmy Fallon
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)So girl crushing on meryl Streep right now.
vlakitti
(401 posts)and a fine analysis of how bullying works. Good for her, over and again.
Cha
(297,275 posts)who she was talking about
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)will be referred to by me as the orange one, or found here on DU twitler.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)Saying that we need more women leaders in the world.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)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
(11,145 posts)duhneece
(4,113 posts)...a man who is not a real man by any definition.
Raster
(20,998 posts)Paladin
(28,262 posts)mainer
(12,022 posts)@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
(82,383 posts)It's on tape!
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)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
(2,993 posts)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
(15,543 posts)uhnope
(6,419 posts)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
(37,748 posts)That's quite an allegation. Yet really nothing more than that...
uhnope
(6,419 posts)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
(15,220 posts)Thank you, Meryl. From one Nasty Woman to another!
ananda
(28,865 posts)Applause
llmart
(15,540 posts)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
(81,302 posts)She had me up on my feet, standing at attention, and then saluting!
Flatpicker
(894 posts)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.