Nobody will forget Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award in a hurry.
The actress used the momentous occasion to slam Donald Trump, without even using his name.
It prompted the president to attack Streep on Twitter calling her “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood”, and a “Hillary flunky who lost big”.
Now Streep has slammed the POTUS once again, this time, at a Manhattan gala for the Human Rights Campaign, a non-profit for LGBT equality.
And once again, she didn’t mention the president by name (but there was no doubt who she was talking about).
“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,” she said.
“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, delegitimise the press and imagined enemies with spasmodic regularity and easily provoked predictability.”
Streep also addressed Trump’s tweets about her:
“Yes, I am the most overrated, overdecorated and, currently, I am the most over-berated actress … of my generation.
“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 if you feel you have to. You have to! You don’t have an option. You have to.”
Meryl was receiving the Human Rights Campaign’s National Ally for Equality Award and she also spoke positively about progress:
“Amazingly, and, in terms of human history, blazingly fast, culture seemed to have shifted; the old hierarchies and entitlements seemed to have been upended. 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. We should not be surprised that not everyone is actually cool with it.”
Keep on fighting the good fight, Meryl!
