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Meryl Streep strikes at Donald Trump at the Golden Globes
After being honored the Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes on Sunday, Meryl Streep delivered a speech that struck a chord with the audience. Her discourse was laden with empathy and emotion as she proceeded to rail against Donald Trump’s disdainful “performance” at a rally a year ago, while attempting to defend Hollywood, foreigners and the press.
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Meryl Streep accepts the Cecil B. DeMille award at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on Jan. 8. (NBC via AP/Paul Drinkwater)
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fter being honored the Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes on Sunday, Meryl Streep delivered a speech that struck a chord with the audience. Her discourse was laden with empathy and emotion as she proceeded to rail against Donald Trump’s disdainful “performance” at a rally a year ago, while attempting to defend Hollywood, foreigners and the press.
She started off by saying, “Who are we? And what is Hollywood anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from other places". Streep drew emphasis on the many different actors and actresses in the hall and described their unique cultural backgrounds. Among them were herself, Viola Davis, Amy Adams, Dev Patel and Ryan Gosling, to name a few. “Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick them all out, you'll have nothing to watch except for football and mixed martial arts, which are not arts”, she uttered in an assertive tone as she defends “the most vilified segments in American society”.
(Read also: List of winners at the Golden Globe Awards)
Streep veered off by talking about the “many powerful performances this year” and mentioning that there was one in particular that “stunned” her and “sank its hooks in [her] heart”. By this, she was alluding to a rally where Trump ridiculed and imitated a disabled New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski. “There was nothing good about it”, she remarked, much to her chagrin. She continues by adding, “That instinct to humiliate when it's modeled by someone in a public platform, it filters down into everyone's life because it gives permission for others to do the same."
“When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose," Streep opined in her speech.
As she closed her delivery, Streep addressed the need for the press to confront “the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in America”. She harped on the importance of “the principled press to hold power to account” and reached out to the “famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press” to bolster and protect the committee of journalists.
She ended her speech in a simple yet promising note, weaving in a quote Carrie Fisher once shared with her for everyone to resonate with: “take your broken heart, make it into art”. (nik/kes)
How DARE Meryl exercise her right to free speech like that's a thing we are allowed to do here in Ameri- wait...hmm. #MerylStreep
— shonda rhimes (@shondarhimes) January 9, 2017
Basically the faces of every Trump Supporter watching #MerylStreep's speech at the #GoldenGlobes. pic.twitter.com/8j0gNrQ6Vk
— Brittany Pettibone (@BrittPettibone) January 9, 2017
I just wanna say that #MerylStreep probably had the best speech of 2017 and it's only Day 8 #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/KGrjk3oGZQ
— Ugene's Politics 🌐 (@UgenesPolitics) January 9, 2017
#MerylStreep's speech was beyond moving! We're not crying, you're crying. 😭 #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/8sUOVdaCOs
— People Magazine (@people) January 9, 2017
