Donald Trump brands Meryl Streep ‘the most over-rated actress in Hollywood’ after she slams him at Golden Globes

The President-elect attempted to defend himself in a series of tweets 
Hitting back: Donald Trump slams Meryl Streep after her Golden Globes speech
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Jennifer Ruby13 January 2017
The Weekender

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Donald Trump has hit back at Meryl Streep after she slammed him at the Golden Globes, calling her the “most over-rated actress in Hollywood”.

The President-elect fired off a series of defensive tweets on Monday morning, hours after Streep called him out for mocking a disabled reporter.

He wrote: “Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. 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.......

““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!”

In Streep’s powerful Cecil B. DeMille Award acceptance speech on Sunday night, which was lauded as the best of the evening, she talked about how important it is for those in power to set an example.

Without directly mentioning Trump’s name, the A-lister referenced the time the soon-to-be President seemed to mocked a New York Times reporter for his disability.

“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 it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh, and show their teeth,” she said.

“It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter.

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“Someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. 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 real life.”

She continued: “And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modelled 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.

“Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose.”

Streep went on to say that it was up to the press to hold Trump to account.

“We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call him on the carpet for every outrage,” she said.

“That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in the Constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, because we’re gonna need them going forward, and they’ll need us to safeguard the truth.”

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