Hugh Laurie mocks Donald Trump in Golden Globes speech as he dedicates win to ‘psychopathic billionaires’

The British actor took the opportunity to make a dig at the President-elect on Sunday night 
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Jennifer Ruby13 January 2017
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Hugh Laurie dedicated his Golden Globe award to ‘psychopathic billionaires everywhere’ in a speech mocking Donald Trump.

The British actor made a dig at the President-elect as he picked up an award for his role in The Night Manager, saying that he expected it to be the final Globes since it was organised by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

“I won at the last ever Golden Globes,” Laurie told the crowd during Sunday night’s ceremony.

“I don’t mean to be gloomy, it’s just that it has the words ‘Hollywood’, ‘foreign’ and ‘press’ in the title. I just don’t know what…

“I think to some Republicans even the word association is slightly sketchy.”

The former House star finished his speech by saying: “I accept this award on behalf of psychopathic billionaires everywhere.”

Laurie wasn’t the only award winner to take aim at Trump during the star-studded ceremony.

Meryl Streep’s acceptance speech was lauded as the best of the evening after she called out Trump for mocking a disabled New York Times reporter last year.

“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.

“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.”

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