Celebrated actress Meryl Streep delivered a powerful speech criticizing Donald Trump at the 2017 Golden Globes on Sunday night, but the president-elect isn't taking it lying down.
In an early-morning interview with The New York Times, Trump dismissed Streep as "a Hillary lover." And it didn't take long for the president-elect to air his views over Twitter, too.
While accepting her Cecil B. DeMille Award, the actress slammed Trump's use of bullying and indecent rhetoric throughout his presidential campaign, though she did not call out the president-elect by name. Stating that "disrespect invites disrespect" and "violence incites violence," the actress made a plea for empathy, specifically in light of a 2015 incident in which Trump made a contorted motion with his arms widely interpreted to be him mocking a disabled journalist.
Calling her "one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood," Trump suggested Streep's moral argument stemmed from watching her candidate lose the 2016 election. He also claimed that he never mocked a disabled journalist but "simply showed him 'groveling.'"