![]() ![]() In any case, Streep did some mocking of her own - of Donald Trump - back in June. Streep, likewise, said it was important for American citizens, in support of a “principled free press,” to hold the incoming president and his administration to account. She then argued that the media always wants to report on “what’s come out of his mouth rather than look at what’s in his heart.” Yes, she took the media to task for reporting the things Trump says.Ĭonway also criticized Streep for not using her Golden Globes platform to discuss a video in which four people broadcast on Facebook their attack on a mentally disabled man - while yelling obscenities about “white people” and Donald Trump.Ĭonway acknowledged that celebrities like Streep at awards events can say “what they want, but they have to be held to account.” In one of his Monday tweets, Trump said he was mocking the reporter for his “groveling” when he “changed a 16-year-old story to make me look bad.”Ĭonway on Monday repeated Trump’s insistence that he wasn’t mimicking the disability and asked Cuomo: “Why can’t you give him the benefit of the doubt?”īut Cuomo countered that Trump’s gesture “goes right to the guy’s vulnerability.”Ĭonway responded that Trump was telling people “what was in his heart.” Trump was criticizing Kovaleski for saying he had mischaracterized the reporter’s post-Scoverage of Muslims’ reactions to the terrorist attacks. He covered Trump extensively as a reporter for the New York Daily News in 1980s and 1990s.Ī video of Trump at the rally shows the then-GOP presidential candidate impersonating Kovaleski by pointedly flopping his right arm around with his hand held at an odd angle. Kovaleski, now with the New York Times, suffers from a congenital condition that limits the movement of joints. ![]() In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo Monday morning, Conway tried her best to double-down on Trump’s assertion “People keep saying I intended to mock the reporter’s disability, as if Meryl Streep and others could read my mind, and I did no such thing,” Trump said. In an interview with the New York Times, as well as in one of his tweets, Trump insisted he never intended to mock the reporter, Serge Kovaleski, for his disability, in a speech at a South Carolina rally. She called him out for his divisive and “bullying” rhetoric and actions during his presidential campaign, especially when he appeared to mock the reporter during a campaign speech in 2015. DeMille lifetime achievement award to raise alarm about Trump’s fitness and character to become president in 11 days. The three-time Academy Award winner and 30-time Golden Globe nominee on Sunday used the occasion of receiving a Cecil B. She hadn’t taken to Twitter or other media to say she regretted what she said about Trump. As of Monday morning, it looks like Streep is fine with what she said. Streep apparently thought it was a very appropriate place to talk politics - because she did so very forcefully. Streep became the subject of an early morning three-tweet tirade by the soon-to-be leader of the free world, and she faced a tongue-lashing by Conway who called Hollywood - and therefore Streep - “myopic.” Conway also questioned whether it was appropriate for Streep to use the awards event to “talk politics.” Meryl Streep certainly re-opened an old wound for President-elect Donald Trump during her Golden Globes speech Sunday night by accusing him of mocking a reporter for his disability.Īnd could it be that she’s regretting it? Especially now that his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway has joined her boss in condemning the actress’s use of a global platform to make that accusation. ![]()
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