Celebrities Who Have Spoken Out Against Donald Trump
Meryl Streep and 22 Other Celebrities Who Didn't Hold Back While Talking About Donald Trump
Meryl Streep
Perhaps the most damning takedown of the president-elect's behavior came from Meryl Streep at the Golden Globe Awards. She used her acceptance speech as a platform to highlight the overwhelming importance of diversity not only in Hollywood but also in America in general. "Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick us all out, you'll have nothing to watch except for football and mixed martial arts, which are not arts," she tearfully said, before calling out Trump for mocking a reporter with a disability at a rally earlier last year.
"There was nothing good about it, but it did its job," she said of the incident. "It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can't get it out my head because it wasn't in a movie; it was in real life. 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." She finished off her lengthy, impassioned speech with a sentiment that we'd all do well to remember over the next four years. "Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence," she said, before quoting late friend Carrie Fisher. "Take your broken heart, make it into art."
