Meryl Streep Slams Trump In New Speech; Calls Herself 'Overrated'
Oscar nominee, greatest actress alive and vocal Donald Trump critic Meryl Streep was at it again, at Saturday’s Human Rights Campaign gala in New York, where she was the honoree.
Remember her fiery Golden Globes speech? Who can forget. She brought down the house without once mentioning the president’s name. This time was no different.
Streep, clad in a crisp white jacket and black pants, took the stage and let it rip. In response to Trump’s Tweet critiquing her work achievements, she had this to say: “Yes, I am the most overrated, overdecorated and, currently, over-berated actress, who likes football, of my generation,” said the star. “But that is why you invited me here! Right?”
Once again, you’ll note, she never once mentioned Trump by name.
The current political climate, plus all the new developments coming out of the White House, isn’t something she takes lightly.
“Which brings us to now. We should not be surprised that fundamentalists, of every stripe, are exercised and fuming. We should not be surprised that these profound changes come at a steeper cost than we originally thought. If we live through this precarious moment, if his catastrophic instinct to retaliate doesn’t lead us to nuclear winter, we will have much to thank our current leader for. He will have woken us up to how fragile freedom is. The whip of the executive, through a Twitter feed, can lash and intimidate, punish and humiliate, delegitimize the press and imagined enemies with spasmodic regularity and easily provoked predictability,” she said.
Speaking out hasn’t been without peril. “It’s terrifying to put the target on your forehead, and it sets you up for all sorts of attacks and armies of brownshirts and bots and worse, and the only way you can do it is to feel you have to.”
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