US President-elect Donald Trump has hit back at
Meryl Streep's criticism of him as she received a
lifetime achievement award at the Golden
Globes.
He tweeted : "Meryl Streep, one of the most
overrated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know
me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes.
"She is a Hillary flunky who lost big," Mr Trump
added of the three-time Oscar-winning actress.
She said: "When the powerful use their position
to bully others we all lose."
The hostility towards Mr Trump from the world of
showbiz contrasts with the feting of his defeated
rival in November's presidential election, Hillary
Clinton.
She received three standing ovations as she
made a rare public appearance on Sunday in New
York City at the Broadway musical The Color
Purple.
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Streep told the Golden Globes audience in Beverly
Hills on Sunday as she picked up the Cecil B
DeMille award: "You and all of us in this room
really belong to the most vilified segments in
American society right now.
"Think about it, Hollywood, foreigners, and the
press."
"There was one performance this year that
stunned me," she continued, without naming Mr
Trump.
"It sank its hooks in 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 rally in South Carolina
in November 2015 when Mr Trump jerked his
arms in front of his body as he made fun of
Serge Kovaleski, a New York Times journalist who
has a congenital joint condition.
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The actress' attack dominated coverage of an
event that is usually a light-hearted jamboree in
the annual Hollywood awards season ahead of
next month's Oscars.
Mr Trump, who will be inaugurated in less than
two weeks, tweeted on Monday morning: "For the
100th time, I never 'mocked' a disabled reporter
(would never do that) but simply showed him
'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!"
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Streep also referred to Mr Trump's hardline
stance on immigration policy.
The actress told the audience: "Hollywood is
crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if you
kick them all out, you'll have nothing to watch
but football and mixed martial arts, which are not
the arts."
British success
Hollywood musical La La Land broke the record
for the most Golden Globe Awards . It won seven
in total - succeeding in every category for which
it was nominated.
Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling won in the best
acting categories, while Damien Chazelle was
named best director.
The movie also won the best musical or comedy
film award, best screenplay, best score and best
song.
Coming-of-age drama Moonlight was named best
film in the drama category, while best actor and
actress went to Casey Affleck and Isabelle
Huppert.
British stars dominated in the television
categories , with prizes for The Night Manager and
The Crown.
Three stars of BBC spy drama The Night Manager
- Tom Hiddleston, Olivia Colman and Hugh Laurie
- won acting prizes.
Claire Foy, who plays the Queen in Netflix's royal
epic The Crown, was named best TV drama
actress and the show won best TV drama.
