Meryl Streep Continues The Hollywood Trumper Tantrum [VIDEO]

Meryl Streep Continues The Hollywood Trumper Tantrum [VIDEO]

Meryl Streep Continues The Hollywood Trumper Tantrum [VIDEO]

Someone pass Hollywood a tissue. They simply don’t know how on earth they are going to survive under President Donald Trump. They’ve already had their cryfest over losing their political Savior and Lord, Barack Obama, and after expecting all along that Hillary Clinton was simply going through the motions before her coronation as Queen and Empress the first female President, they seem to be having a hard time dealing with the reality of an American voting public that doesn’t think like they do, and yet they still depend on to support their so-called “works of art.”

Enter Meryl Streep, who was accepting the Cecil B. deMille award for “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment,” and decided to go on a bit of a rant/sobfest/temper tantrum about Just! How! Upset! She! Is! About! The! Election!

Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said: You and all of us in this room really belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it: Hollywood, foreigners and the press.

So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.

They gave me three seconds to say this, so: An actor’s only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us, and let you feel what that feels like. And there were many, many, many powerful performances this year that did exactly that. Breathtaking, compassionate work.

But 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. 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. And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled 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. O.K., go on with it.



And of course, all of the rich people in the room applauded and applauded the rich woman (net worth estimated at $75 million) who is just feeling so “vilified” and oppressed right now.

Donald Trump commented by phone late Sunday night, and seemed to be fairly restrained in his dismissal of Streep’s comments as Hollywood sour grapes.

“And remember, Meryl Streep introduced Hillary Clinton at her convention, and a lot of these people supported Hillary,” Mr. Trump said, referring to Ms. Streep’s remarks at the Democratic National Convention last summer on behalf of his opponent, Mrs. Clinton.

As Twitchy so rightly pointed out, Meryl Streep had no problem standing up and applauding a convicted child rapist – someone whom a majority of Americans would and do vilify for his crimes – because he makes the kind of “art” she approves of.

Football and MMA are for the peasants, apparently.

And Meryl Streep doesn’t seem to have problems with other men in power who did humiliate, abuse, and bully other women in real life.

Meryl Streep and Bill Clinton, at the Democratic National Convention last July. (photo: Flickr/Adam Schultz for Hillary for America)
Because, after all, liberal women decided that Bill Clinton could do whatever he wanted, and so long as he fell in line with what they wanted, they would turn a blind eye to his ongoing sexual harassment and abuse.

And that is the fundamental disconnect between Hollywood and America. Hollywood doesn’t care that they are embracing sexual predators or child rapists, because they all agree with each other that they are right, and the rest of America is filled with stupid and ignorant rubes who watch football and mixed martial arts.

Given the lack of originality in Hollywood at the moment, maybe we would all be better off if Hollywood decided that we weren’t worthy of their talents and decided to boycott the American public for the duration of the Trump presidency. What say you, Meryl Streep? Clearly, the American electorate doesn’t deserve you. How about you take the next four years off, just to punish us all. I dare you.

UPDATE 8:12 AM PDT:
Well, if anyone was waiting for the tweets, they’re in.


And here I was thinking that his response was more measured because he had stayed off Twitter last night. Apparently he was just waiting for morning.

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8 Comments
  • Rusty Shackleford says:

    To paraphrase a sixties film title, who is Meryl Streep and why is she saying all these terrible things about us?
    No, really—-I remember her from “Kramer vs Kramer” 30 years ago, and I saw some horrible “review” on American Thinker a year or two ago about a movie she was in where she played a rock star (why they saw fit to publish such tripe was beyond my ken), but otherwise, I only know her as someone who’s always being “honored” by Hollywood. Never has so much been said by so many media about someone watched by so few!

    • Chris in N.Va says:

      Clever paraphrase of bulldog Winston’s famous praise of the RAF.

      I don’t remember if Meryl Screech is one of the legion of indignant Hollywood adult “brats” who threw hissy fits threatening to leave the country of Trump won.

      Still waiting for “film at 11:00” to chronicle their much-ballyhooed departure for greener ($$$???) pastures in which to graze.

      Pass the popcorn — the next 4 years will surely feature pouting-a-plenty from the privileged “victims” of Tinsel Town.

  • Chris in N.Va says:

    Regarding the danger we face with the upcoming Trump administration, Ms Screech solemnly intones:

    “Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.”

    Ummm……under what rock has she been living for last eight years?

  • Rusty Shackleford says:

    It just occurred to me who Meryl Strepthroat has reminded me of lo these many years—the original overrated actress, Greer Garson. She won the Oscar for “Mrs. Miniver” in 1943 and gave the longest acceptance speech ever—it lasted six minutes, but listeners thought it ran for an hour. She’s also remembered for marrying the actor who played her son in that movie (an ewwww moment if there ever was one!).

  • GWB says:

    Meryl Streep and Bill Clinton, at the Democratic National Convention last July.

    Aayyaarrrryyyeeaarrgghhhh!!!!
    Warn us before you post something like that. Did she stick her head out the window of a Maserati doing 185, just before her hair gel set? Hun, that is NOT your good side…….

    I’ve liked some movies Streep was in. Others I could do without. She’s a decent actress, imho. But she really does believe she is something special in this universe – and should thereby grace us with her wisdom – because she ranks in the top 20% of people who get paid to play pretend. *smh*

  • Trixie B says:

    In listening to what little bit of her rant that I could stomach, I kept hearing her talking about the hate & divisiveness emanating from Donald Trump. What about the hate against police officers and Caucasians that spewed from BLM? Where was the outcry from the “privileged elite”? How about Obama’s rhetoric against police officers over the years? How about Obama’s lauding the black criminals who were killed in the commission of their crimes by police officers? How Obama’s utter contempt for our military in the wake of the Fort Hood assassinations? The “Hollywood Elite” makes me wretch.

  • VALman says:

    The images projected by many in Hollywood is why I gave up on it long ago. Okay, so I’M an old fart.

    However, I can remember hearing little about the personal lives of actors and actresses. If it was available, it never reached me. Consequently, when I saw them on the big screen playing a certain role, there was little to detract from what they are attempting to portray.

    Today’s Hollywood types are out there so often that watching the in film I find myself trying to push their public persona out of my mind. Frankly, quite a bit of the acting isn’t worth the effort. Oh, goody.

    A vintage one is on TCM tonight. “The Thin Man” with William Powell and Myrna Loy. Top that modern-day, self-absorded Hollywood!

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