Meryl Streep’s Handbag Shows Her Love for the Obamas
Meryl Streep’s relationship with Donald Trump may be strained, but her love for the Obama family is thriving.
Case in point: On Tuesday, Streep was photographed on the set of her upcoming film The Papers carrying a stylish black purse bearing an image of former President Barack Obama and wife Michelle in front of the U.S. Capitol. Streep paired the bag with a purple baseball hat, flip-flops, black cropped pants, and a blue jacket.
Style blogs went into a tizzy speculating where the bag came from, and Twitter gushed over its uniqueness.
#MerylStreep rocking that Obama bag…#flawless pic.twitter.com/wCW6gOaoSR
— Hannah Reed (@justgonnaswim) July 11, 2017
Find you someone that shows you off exactly how Meryl Streep shows off Michelle & Barack Obama pic.twitter.com/Mwnk00cdsl
— ????? (@Brinna_Jae) July 11, 2017
Find you someone that shows you off exactly how Meryl Streep shows off Michelle & Barack Obama pic.twitter.com/Mwnk00cdsl
— ????? (@Brinna_Jae) July 11, 2017
Yahoo Style tracked down a woman who promoted the bag on Facebook and who confirmed she is a vendor of bags featuring the Obamas, but she did not provide further information.
A similar bag featuring the couple on the cover of Ebony magazine is available on eBay with a starting bid of $20. Other versions are also available through sites like CafePress and Poshmark.
Streep and the former first family have carried on an adorable public love affair since Barack announced his devotion to the star in 2014 while presenting her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom award, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
“I love Meryl Streep,” Obama stated, per White House reporter Jennifer Bendery. “Her husband knows I love her. Michelle knows I love her. There’s nothing they can do about it.”
"I love Meryl Streep. Her husband knows I love her. Michelle knows I love her. There's nothing they can do about it." — President Obama
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) November 24, 2014
Michelle and Streep have also teamed up, traveling to Africa together in 2016 to promote a government initiative called the Let Girls Learn. They also gave a joint interview in 2015 for More magazine, in which they discussed education, gender equality, and raising daughters.
Streep’s relationship with the Obama family is in stark contrast to the one she has with Donald Trump. In January, after Streep used her lifetime achievement award speech to criticize the president without ever mentioning his name, Trump fired back on Twitter that the Oscar-winning star was “one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood” and a “Hillary flunky who lost big.”
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…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017
Hillary flunky who lost big. For the 100th time, I never "mocked" a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him…….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017
"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!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017
It’s safe to say that Streep won’t be rocking this one-piece any time soon.
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