President-elect Donald J. Trump dismissed Meryl Streep as “a Hillary lover” early Monday morning after the actress, in a speech at the Golden Globes award ceremony, denounced him as a bully who disrespected and humiliated others.(Emphasis added.)
Mr. Trump, in a brief telephone interview, said he had not seen Ms. Streep’s remarks or other parts of the Globes ceremony, which were broadcast on NBC, but added that he was “not surprised” that he had come under attack from “liberal movie people.”
It's before 7:00 A.M. as I write this. Google tells me the Times story was posted approximately 5 hours ago.
This man will be president in eleven days. He has a lot to catch up on and he needs to budget his time. And yet he's more than willing to take a phone call from The New York Times after midnight to chat about an awards ceremony -- because, well, he was insulted by Streep, and responding to insults is always Priority One for the next Leader of the Free World:
Mr. Trump, as he has done many times before, grew heated in the interview as he flatly denied that he had intended to make fun of the Times reporter, Serge F. Kovaleski.And, naturally, after not very many hours' sleep (if he slept at all), we have this from the next president:
“I was never mocking anyone,” Mr. Trump said. “I was calling into question a reporter who had gotten nervous because he had changed his story,” arguing that the reporter had been trying to back away from an article he wrote in September 2001 about the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and elsewhere that month.
“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,” he said in the interview.
“And remember, Meryl Streep introduced Hillary Clinton at her convention, and a lot of these people supported Hillary,” Mr. Trump said, referring to Ms. Streep’s remarks at the Democratic National Convention last summer on behalf of his opponent, Mrs. Clinton.
Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a.....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017
Hillary flunky who lost big. For the 100th time, I never "mocked" a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him.......
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017
We know that Vladimir Putin has Trump wrapped around his little finger, but will other foreign powers find a way to distract Trump at key geopolitical moments by deploying assets to bruise Trump's delicate ego? Welcome to the next four years.
but maybe if we can keep him distracted with this kind of bull shit he won't blow up the world.
ReplyDeleteThree minutes to midnight …
ReplyDeleteEvery January, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists resets the official time on the Doomsday Clock, with midnight the end of the human species. Last January, they moved the hands to 3 minutes to midnight. Didn’t mince any words:
Today, unchecked climate change and a nuclear arms race resulting from modernization of huge arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity. And world leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. These failures of leadership endanger every person on Earth.
January 2017 is no improvement:
“It is still Three Minutes to Midnight.”
Thin skinned is an understatement.
ReplyDeleteSlightly O/T, but it seems to me that the old Cold war nomenclature "the free world" is way, way past its sell-by date, and that perhaps we could formally retire the term at the end of next week.
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