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It hardly comes
as a surprise to anyone that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump would be the
brunt of jokes and barbs at the annual Golden Globe awards ceremony Sunday in
Beverly Hills. His conservative style, anti-immigrant outlook and anti-media
views on what America should look like to "make it great again" are
ample fodder for jokes at Trump's expense by the entertainment industry.
The
president-elect has been the source of jokes almost nightly for Golden Globes
emcee Jimmy Fallon on his regular gig as the host of NBC-TV's The Tonight Show.
The Globes is "one of the few places where America still honors the
popular vote," Fallon said Sunday, a reference to the nearly three million
more votes that Hillary Clinton received over Trump in the U.S. presidential
election. Clinton, however, did not receive the presidential nod from the
electoral college, a system critics say is outdated and needs to be either
revised or thrown out.
Fallon also joked
about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia's meddling into the
presidential election, possibly swaying voters towards Trump. "Of course
the ballots for tonight's Golden Globes were carefully tabulated by the
accounting firm Ernst and Young and Putin," Fallon said.
Director Byron
Howard whose film Zootopia won the Golden Globe for best animated film said his
movie was aimed at adults "about embracing diversity, even though there
are people in the world who want to divide us using fear." Hugh Laurie
holds the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a
Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for his role in
"The Night Manager" during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards in
Beverly Hills, California
Hugh Laurie
holds the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a
Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for his role in
"The Night. Manager" during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards in
Beverly Hills, California
British actor
Hugh Laurie, upon accepting his Golden Globe for best supporting actor for the
TV series The Night Manager, said Sunday's Golden Globes might be "the
last ever Golden Globes" because "it has the words 'Hollywood,'
'foreign' and 'press' in the title. . . To some Republicans even the word
'association' is slightly sketchy."
What did
surprise the audience Sunday night, however, was Meryl Streep. The popular
American actress received the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement.
After a heartfelt introduction by her friend and fellow actress Viola Davis,
Streep took to the stage with a voice that was barely louder than a whisper.
She said "I've lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend.
And I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year."
Golden Globe Awards ✔ @goldenglobes
At tonight's
#GoldenGlobes we honor Hollywood legend Meryl Streep with the prestigious Cecil
B. Demille Award.
She went on.
"There was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks
into my heart. 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. Someone he
outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke
my heart when I saw it. I still can't get it out of my head because it wasn't
in a movie. It was real life."
Streep was
referring to a Trump campaign speech in which he famously mocked a disabled New
York Times reporter. Trump rebuked Streep on Twitter Monday, describing her as
"one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood" and a
"Hillary flunky." The
president-elect also said, "For the 100th time, I never 'mocked' a
disabled reporter," despite the video that has been repeatedly aired of
him mocking the reporter.
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one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked
last night at the Golden Globes. She is a.....
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Hillary flunky
who lost big. For the 100th time, I never "mocked" a disabled reporter
(would never do that) but simply showed him.......
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"groveling"
when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to
make me look bad. Just more very dishonest media!
"Disrespect
invites disrespect," Streep said. "Violence incites violence. And
when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose."
Streep then
spoke on the need for a "principled press to hold power to account, to
call them on the carpet for every outrage." She said, "That's why our
founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our Constitution." She
asked that "the famously well-heeled foreign press and all of us in our
community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists,
because we're going to need them going forward, and they'll need us to
safeguard the truth."
Earlier Monday
morning, The New York Times reported that Trump said he had not seen the Golden
Globes or Streep's remarks, but was "not surprised" that
"liberal movie people" had attacked him.
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