--- title: Golden Globes 2017: Donald Trump Slams Meryl Streep description: Donald Trump lashed out at Meryl Streep, calling her a "Hillary flunky who lost big" after the actor criticized him at the Golden Globes canonical: https://time.com/4628378/golden-globes-2017-donald-trump-meryl-streep/ author: Kate Samuelson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-09T12:25:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T10:35:27.579Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Slams 'Over-Rated' Meryl Streep After Golden Globes Speech og:description: "She is a Hillary flunky who lost big" og:url: https://time.com/4628378/golden-globes-2017-donald-trump-meryl-streep/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83ef33f75a605ea8/6988b4c38e060136fb468be5/ap_17009149662242.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Meryl Streep og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Slams 'Over-Rated' Meryl Streep After Golden Globes Speech twitter:description: "She is a Hillary flunky who lost big" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83ef33f75a605ea8/6988b4c38e060136fb468be5/ap_17009149662242.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Slams 'Over-Rated' Meryl Streep After Golden Globes Speech by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Jan 9, 2017 12:25 PM UTC  Meryl Streep poses in the press room with the Cecil B. DeMille award at the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Meryl Streep poses in the press room with the Cecil B. DeMille award at the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, in Beverly Hills, Calif.Jordan Strauss—Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Jan 9, 2017 12:25 PM UTC [Donald Trump](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-donald-trump/) lashed out at [Meryl Streep](http://time.com/4628072/golden-globes-2017-meryl-streep-donald-trump-speech/) early on Monday, calling her a “Hillary flunky who lost big” after the actor criticized the President-elect during [a speech at the Golden Globes](http://time.com/4628147/read-meryl-streeps-powerful-golden-globes-speech/) on Sunday night. The _Doubt_ and _Out of Africa_ star said that of all the performances she saw in 2016, the one that stuck with her most — and not in a good way — was not by an actor, but by Trump, referring to the moment he [mocked](http://time.com/4127857/donald-trump-disability/) a disabled reporter (something he later [denied](http://time.com/4128128/donald-trump-kovaleski-journalist-disability/)). “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,” she said. “This instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform… filters down into everybody’s life. … Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose.” Trump took to Twitter early on Monday to dismiss Streep, three-time Oscar winner and eight-time Golden Globe winner, as “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood.” “\[She\] doesn’t know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes,” he wrote. “She is a Hillary flunky who lost big.” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/818419002548568064) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/818421066859167746) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/818422930157830144) In a brief interview with the [New York _Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/movies/trump-meryl-streep-golden-globes-speech.html) earlier, Trump said he had not seen Streep’s remarks but added that he was “not surprised” that he had come under attack from “liberal movie people.” “I was never mocking anyone,” he said. “I was calling into question a reporter who had gotten nervous because he had changed his story. 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.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4628378/golden-globes-2017-donald-trump-meryl-streep/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4628378/golden-globes-2017-donald-trump-meryl-streep/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Slams 'Over-Rated' Meryl Streep After Golden Globes Speech","datePublished":"2017-01-09T12:25:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T10:35:27.579Z","description":"\"She is a Hillary flunky who lost big\"","url":"https://time.com/4628378/golden-globes-2017-donald-trump-meryl-streep/","keywords":["Donald Trump","celebrities","golden globes","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83ef33f75a605ea8/6988b4c38e060136fb468be5/ap_17009149662242.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kate Samuelson","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt83ef33f75a605ea8/6988b4c38e060136fb468be5/ap_17009149662242.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Meryl Streep","caption":"Meryl Streep","creditText":"Jordan Strauss—Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4628378/golden-globes-2017-donald-trump-meryl-streep/","name":"Donald Trump Slams 'Over-Rated' Meryl Streep After Golden Globes Speech"}}]}] ```