Donald Trump responds to Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech

Meryl Streep’s speech at the 2017 Golden Globes was bound to stir up some attention, and her comments drew a response from Donald Trump.

With 2016 being such a tumultuous year for our country, our world and so many Hollywood stars, it was almost inevitable that the 2017 Golden Globes would make a political statement or two.

The biggest one of the night came from renowned actress Meryl Streep, who accepted a lifetime achievement award and used her speech to preach empathy, call out Donald Trump and his supporters, and somehow manage to throw mixed martial arts under the bus as well.

“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 said with emotion.

With Trump being the, uh, lively tweeter that he is, most assumed it was only a matter of time before the president-elect responded to Streep’s criticism on Twitter.

He didn’t make his response quite so out in the open, but in a phone interview with the New York Times, he made his feelings about Streep’s speech well known.

Trump not only dismissed the famous actress as a “Hillary lover,” but also went on to say he was “not surprised” by her comments, which were coming from “liberal movie people.” The soon-to-be President of the United States said he had not seen her speech or the rest of the Golden Globes.

During her speech, Streep had also called out the way Trump had imitated a disabled person during his campaign.

"“There was one performance this year that stunned me — it sank its hooks in my heart,” she said. “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. 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.”"

Trump responded to those comments, once again denying that he was making fun of the Times reporter, Serge Kovaleski.

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“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,” Trump told the New York Times.