Meryl Streep criticizes Trump during acceptance speech

Meryl Streep used her platform during Sunday night's Golden Globes to voice her concerns and grievance with President-Elect Trump and his recent "performance" during the presidential campaign.

During her passionate and emotional speech she highlighted that Trump's attitude and recent actions has given others "permission" to act in a similar way. Trump responded via twitter calling Streep a a Hillary lover.

You can read more on the story here.

Do you think Meryl has a point? Do you think she should have left her political views at home? Or do you think it was the perfect platform?

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Reply 1

jape

Even if she did have a point (and at this point, my brain has been so mushed by the post-election vacuousness that I don't even care) she didn't add anything to the conversation that a million other people haven't already said in no fewer than three different ways.

Just shut up, take your award and go home without telling everyone how great you are. Why is that so hard?

Reply 2

the bear

Millionairess Streep : for her the struggle is not real.

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/meryl-streep-florence-foster-jenkins.jpg?quality=90&w=650

Reply 3

Asolare

I love Meryl and she's a great actress and a wonderful person but this really wasn't the time or place to go about this.

But once again Trump's response is less than elegant

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Reply 4

fandom-queen

Original post by Danny Dorito

Meryl Streep used her platform during Sunday nights Golden Globes to voice her concerns and grievance with President elect Trump and his recent "performance" during the presidential campaign.

During her passionate and emotional speech she highlighted that Trump's attitude and recent actions has given others "permission" to act in a similar way. Trump responded via twitter calling Streep a a Hillary lover.

You can read more on the story here.

Do you think Meryl has a point? Do you think she should have left her political views at home? Or do you think it was the perfect platform?

I think she was right.

Not about the whole foreigner thing. I'm indian myself, but I think Trump wanting to expedite illegal immigrants is not wrong.

But what kind of a sick man makes fun of a disabled reporter? Is this really the kind of values USA wants to showcase to the rest of the world?

I am by no means saying he's better than Hillary, but the fact remains, IT STILL DOESN'T MAKE HIM GOOD.

And to all those people saying that celebrities should stay out of politics, well, so should businessmen.

People tend to forget that celebrities have every right to express their political leanings, just as every average citizen does. The only difference is, you have social media, they have live international television.

The principles are the same. If you can express it on a public domain, they can express it too, it's just that more people are exposed to it.

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Reply 5

nutz99

This is her opinion and in all honesty who cares about an actresses opinion on politics. Her opinion has no more solidity than the next person....and all based on what she reads in the gutter press.

Reply 6

username2053059

Original post by nutz99

This is her opinion and in all honesty who cares about an actresses opinion on politics. Her opinion has no more solidity than the next person....and all based on what she reads in the gutter press.

Not wrong though.

Reply 7

nutz99

Original post by cbreef

Not wrong though.

Its an opinion. There is no right or wrong. In my opinion this was the wrong time and place to bring this up.

Also in my opinion Trump did nothing wrong in the way he did an impression of that reporter. The idiotic PC brigade are effectively saying its ok to mimic anyone except if they are disabled. A disabled person has no more rights than a non-disabled person. No-one would be batting an eyelid if he had mimicked Clinton for example.

Reply 8

Lh030396

Original post by nutz99

I'm sorry but I disagree with you completely!! Trump mocking Hilary is nowhere near the same as him mocking a disabled person. Trump criticised Clinton for her opinions and actions, both of which Clinton has control over. A disabled person has little to no control over their mental and/or physical disability. Therefore, it is sickening and unjustified to berate them over something they have no control over. It's quite shocking that you would think that there are no distinctions between the two!!

Reply 9

nutz99

Original post by Lh030396

You obviously don't watch too many comedians who openly mimic people with disabilities. For example Stephen Hawking and Pete Bennett.

You use the word mocking yet I use the word mimicking. There is a huge difference.

Reply 10

username2053059

Original post by nutz99

The key word there is "comedian". It's not like they're running for the job as leader of the most powerful country on Earth.

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Reply 11

Tempest II

She has the freedom to criticise Trump just as he as the right to post some rather pointless & occasionally bonkers statements on Twitter.

Reply 12

username2053059

Original post by Tempest II

She has the freedom to criticise Trump just as he as the right to post some rather pointless & occasionally bonkers statements on Twitter.

What do you mean occasionally?

Reply 13

Lh030396

Original post by nutz99

Yes, I'm well aware of comedians who mimic disabled people. Personally, I don't class that as comedy and these comedians get their fair share of public backlash as a result. And do you really think it appropriate for the President of the United States to act like a clown?!

It doesn't matter if it was mimicking or mocking. It was still done in a detrimental way. Trump was 'mimicking' a person's physicality to single that person out as an oddity. That is completely unacceptable. It's cruel, demeaning, pathetic and weak-minded. Plus it had absolutely NOTHING to do with Trump's presidential campaign...

Reply 14

Rakas21

Original post by Danny Dorito

With regards to the comments themselves the time for her to say these things was 3 months ago, she just looks like a bad loser now (like the Snats, Remoaners ect..).

With regards to her celebrity influencing politics i think to Trump supporters she probably does more harm than good. Many people are frankly sick of well off people telling them how they should think and what they should do and one suspects that she has made few speeches about the white folk who are struggling.

Reply 15

Nirvana1989-1994

Boo hoo he can do the same to her, can't he?

How this even makes it as 'controversial' is beyond me. :rolleyes:

Reply 16

nutz99

Original post by Lh030396

Considering he's following a succession of four clowns I don't think its unusual.

Original post by Lh030396

It doesn't matter if it was mimicking or mocking. It was still done in a detrimental way. Trump was 'mimicking' a person's physicality to single that person out as an oddity. That is completely unacceptable. It's cruel, demeaning, pathetic and weak-minded. Plus it had absolutely NOTHING to do with Trump's presidential campaign...

It was done in such a way that the audience would know who he was mimicking. Words alone sometimes don't get a message over.

I still say that Streep bringing this up now is simply a poor losers attitude. All this happened back in November 2015. If she felt that bad about it then she should have said something then. Who really gives a toss about the opinion of overpaid celebrities who live in their mansions and have no concept of the real world.