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.

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.

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

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.