Trump Vs. Streep

[sp1814]

A couple of things here.

First - is Meryl Streep over-rated?

Second - does it concern you that the next President of the United States of America has a skin so thick that he feels that he needs to defend himself in this manner?

Are we now walking towards a time when the leader of the free world has the sensibilities of a 13 year old school child?

Why is he doing this?

Seriously...I know there are some on here revere Trump in the same way that they revere Katie Hopkins, Jeremy Clarkson and Tyson Fury - as being paragons as straight talking, but what on earth is he doing responding to this kind of criticism?

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38556030

[anneasquith]

LB that's his problem , he can't rise above any criticism of himself, so immature , hardly bodes well for the future, but time will tell. !!!!!!

[ladybirder]

Yes Anne, let's wait and see. He might surprise us all or at the very least be kept in check. I'm sure he's going to keep us talking for a long time, one way or the other!

[naomi24]

anneasquith, since he has none of the intelligence and class you mention, few would expect him to rise above it. I would, however, expect someone who does have intelligence and class to do so. Unfortunately on this occasion, neither was apparent at that ceremony.

[agchristie]

Cloverjo > Actors have often used award ceremonies as opportunities to express their political views.

The recently deceased John Berger did so controversially in 1972 when accepting the ManBooker prize and so did Jim Farrell a year later. Novellists can just be as outspoken!

[anneasquith]

Naomi, there is a difference between an actress and a future president of America, surely the least we should expect from a future world leader is maturity?

[ummmm]

You'd like to think so. Instead we have someone acting like a spoiled brat.

[Cloverjo]

I liked this. Retweeted by Caitlin Moran.


Pence: "Mr. President, North Korea has fired an ICBM."
Trump: "Not now, I'm getting back at Meryl Streep."

[-Talbot-]

https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/818595247898828800

[vetuste_ennemi]

Ms Streep is not over-rated as an actress. I'm a great fan. She's also a perfect exemplar of those other Hollywood attributes: hypocrisy and narcissism.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443679/meryl-streep-golden-globe-speech-donald-trump-not-going-anywhere?utm_source=Sailthru&;utm_medium=email&;utm_campaign=Daily%2

[Khandro]

Excellent link v-e!

"Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil."

W. C. Fields

[weecalf]

Leader of free world ,didn't know donny will be my leader .

[naomi24]

anneasquith/ummmm, //surely the least we should expect from a future world leader is maturity?//

Given his track record I’m at a loss to understand why you would expect that of him. Personally, I don't believe he should be Tweeting at all, but then he never struck me as a man of manufactured diplomacy. Quite the opposite.

v_e, good link.

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - //All you virtue-signalling bleeding heart liberals please watch this. //

Are you putting this tripe forward as a defence of Donald Trump's behaviour?

The idiot 'hard man' speaking (don't the Right Wing love a frontier type, I'm surprised he was wasn't wearing two six-shooters!) in that rough tough voice to show how tough he is, spouted arrant garbage.

The notion that anyone can defend Trump because he regularly mocks people he talks about with the pointless childish nasty hand waving he does - and that's OK? This is a man running for president, and someone cuts together a collage of him mocking everyone he attacks, and refers to it as a 'non-verbal quirk', like it's some loveable little thing that he does.

Seriously????

Oh, and then Mr Hard-case refers to the 'liberals' of Hollywood as 'mentally enslaved morons' - which shows that he is cut from the same cloth as Trump, which is why he thinks Trump is defendable.

It was all just Donald and his 'non-verbal quirk' - so that's OK then.

No - it was a grown man running for office who habitually mocks people he disagrees with by flapping his hands and distorting his mouth in a way that signals mental incapacity, and anyone who is either denying that, or passing it off as some lovable personality trait is excusing the sheer nastiness and petty meanness that Donald Trump has in the space where the rest of the adult population has a personality.

Khandro - if you think calling people 'virtue-signalling bleeding heart liberals' and then shoving this pap at them makes you look even-handed and fair, then you are kidding yourself

[naomi24]

andy-hughes, who is Mr Hard-case?

[Khandro]

n. //andy-hughes, who is Mr Hard-case? //

I think you are talking to him

[naomi24]

Oh really? How odd.

[Khandro]

andy-hughes, You have strong views about the incoming US president, do you know the United States of America? Have you ever worked or even visited the country? How many of the 63 million "deplorables" who voted for Donald Trump do you know?

[Garaman]

Getting back to the opening post; First, I don't think Meryl Streep is over-rated, but has earn't her status as one of the very best screen actresses. Second, it does worry me a bit that the future president is so thin-skinned that he has to react as he does on Twitter etc. It also worries me that he bears grudges, and for a long time too from what I can gather. People often surprise you though when put in positions of authority, and he has been voted in so let's give him a chance.

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - //andy-hughes, who is Mr Hard-case? //

It's the roughty toughty man who links the deplorable pieces of Mr Trump's nastiness together, and then defends them. Apparently he is given air-time for this nonsense.

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - //andy-hughes, You have strong views about the incoming US president ... //

No, I have strong views about his appalling behaviour, and the fact that people go to such lengths to excuse and defend it.

// do you know the United States of America? Have you ever worked or even visited the country? //

That has no relevance to my views about the way Mr Trump behaves in public when seeking office.

// How many of the 63 million "deplorables" who voted for Donald Trump do you know? //

Please refer to my previous response.

My post is not about me, it is about Donald Trump's deeply unpleasant habit of mocking people he despises, and your apparent willingness to defend it, also by attacking people who don't agree with you.