
That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution. “We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. I still can’t get it out of my head, because it wasn’t in a movie - it was real life.” “It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. 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,” Streep said, again refusing to mention Trump’s name. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. 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. “There was one performance this year that stunned me.

DeMille award, Meryl Streep criticized Trump for mocking a disabled New York Times reporter during the presidential campaign. “The character is billed as the world’s worst opera singer, and even she turned down performing at the Trump inauguration,” Fallon joked.Īccepting the Cecil B.

20, “we’re going to find out” what it would have been like if “Game of Thrones” villain King Joffrey had lived.įallon mentioned the name “Trump” only when cracking a joke about the president-elect’s troubles securing A-list talent for the inauguration.Īlso Read: Golden Globes: 7 Best Jokes From Jimmy Fallon's Political Monologue Targeting Trump (Video) Host Jimmy Fallon’s monologue was filled with jabs at the 45th President of the United States, who will be inaugurated in 12 days. But they still managed many criticisms of the soon-to-be president. As Hollywood luminaries came together for the Golden Globes - the first major award ceremony since Donald’s Trump election - they treated him a little like Voldemort of the “Harry Potter” films: a powerful figure whose name no one dares speak aloud.
