The Holy War between America’s Second and Fourth estates escalated Sunday evening during one of Hollywood’s holiest nights. Actress Meryl Streep dissed a performance by
Donald Trump, saying there was “nothing good about it.”
Trump, in turn, tweeted that Streep is “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood,” proving that he really can act.
But it was
one of Trump’s stage performances during a presidential campaign rally that was the focus of Streep’s critique, and Trump’s Twitter rebuttal.
“It stunned
me,” Meryl Streep said while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement during the Golden Globes, one of 157 acting related awards she has won, including eight Golden Globes
and three Oscars.
The "overrated actress" was referring to Trump’s performance portraying a disabled journalist on the campaign trail. While she did not explicitly critique his
acting skills, Streep admonished him for ridiculing and delegitimizing a disabled journalist.
Trump responded with a series of tweets ridiculing and delegitimizing Streep, as well as
the “dishonest media.”
It was one of three separate tweets in a span of 20 hours, and five in the past few days, Trump has used to delegitimize the media as being
“dishonest.”
To prove it, he also tweeted, “For the 100th time, I never ‘mocked’ a disabled reporter.”
To be honest, it sure seems like that’s what
he’s doing in the clip (embedded) below, but watch it for yourself.
Honesty aside, Streep implied the reason for her speech was that the Golden Globes are represented by
Hollywood's foreign press, which currently are the “most vilified segments of society right now: Think about it. Hollywood, Foreigners. And the press.”
“We
need the principled press to hold power to account,” she concluded. “To call them on the carpet for every outrage. That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our
Constitution.”
She then called on Hollywood to join her in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, “because we’re going
to need them going forward. And they’ll need us to safeguard the truth.”
If not, there’s always
Twitter.