Donald Trump said Meryl Streep was one of his favorite actresses in 2015
Now he's calling the Oscar-winning actress overrated
After calling Meryl Streep overrated on Monday morning, a 2015 interview has resurfaced in which President-elect Donald Trump named the Academy Award winner as one of his favorite actresses of all-time.
“Julia Roberts is terrific, and many others,” he then told The Hollywood Reporter, before admitting, “Meryl Streep is excellent; she’s a fine person, too. The problem is I'll name three or four or five and then the hundred that I know will be insulted, and I don't mean to insult them."
Fast forward to present day, and the reality TV star turned president-elect has launched one of his signature, early morning tweetstorms, condemning Streep’s Golden Globes acceptance speech that criticized his divisive presidential campaign.
Streep is one of the most acclaimed actresses of her generation. Over the course of her career, she’s received three Academy Awards, three BAFTAs, eight Golden Globes, and 19 Academy Award nominations. Her speech also inspired viewers to donate to the Committee to Protect Journalists, who saw a spike of more than $80,000 in donations as of Monday afternoon.
“There was one performance this year that stunned me — it sank its hooks in my heart,” she said in her speech Sunday night. “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,” she continued, referring to a 2015 speech when Trump apparently mocked a disabled New York Times 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.”
Watch the full acceptance speech above and read The Hollywood Reporter’s full 2015 interview with Trump here.