Trump Hits Back At Meryl Streep In Early-Morning Tweetstorm

Meryl Streep poses in the press room with the Cecil B. DeMille award at the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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Donald Trump on Monday continued his morning ritual of publishing several tweets responding to his critics, this time lashing out at actress Meryl Streep, who criticized the President-elect in her speech at the Golden Globes award ceremony on Sunday night.

During a speech Sunday night at the Golden Globes, Streep brought up a moment on the campaign trail in 2015 when Trump appeared to mock a disabled reporter.

“It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter,” Streep said in her speech. “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.”

Before responding to Streep’s remarks on Twitter, Trump offered a defense to the New York Times in a brief interview.

“I was never mocking anyone,” Trump told the Times. “I was calling into question a reporter who had gotten nervous because he had changed his story.”

“People keep saying I intended to mock the reporter’s disability, as if Meryl Streep and others could read my mind, and I did no such thing,” he added. “And remember, Meryl Streep introduced Hillary Clinton at her convention, and a lot of these people supported Hillary.”

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  1. Saw this last night flipping through the channels. Kudos to Ms Streep.

    “I was never mocking anyone,” Trump told the Times.

    You’re a fucking liar.

  2. If he is going to tweet every time there is criticism, he will not have time to memorize the nuclear codes…that’s a good thing. /s

  3. Avatar for jadez jadez says:

    the pretender is doing exactly what he did all during the run up to today…tweeting nonsense and lies to CONTROL the narrative and get people talking about him…EVERYONE has got to stop falling for it…and BTW,this is the pretenders way to re-write history…lie about it and create false new impressions…i told you all before that understanding the pretender is easy…he is EXACTLY like palin…who i was forced to get to know thanks to mccain.

  4. Heil Twitler. (h/t: George Takei.)

  5. 8 year old boy mad 'cause he got dissed.
    Says he’ll get even
    He’ll show them!
    Press responds to this news …
    …as if it is news .
    He’s like Peter Pan , he will never grow up

    Nothing to see here move along .

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