Streep tells Globes that Trump disabled mockery 'broke my heart'
Meryl Streep has used her moment in the spotlight at the Golden Globes to attack Donald Trump.
The actress said Mr Trump's impression of a disabled reporter during his campaign for the presidency "kind of broke my heart".
The billionaire, who will become President on 20 January, was apparently doing an impression of Serge Kovaleski when he waved his arms around erratically during a rally.
The episode was widely criticised.
Streep, who was collecting the Cecille B DeMille Award, said the widely criticised episode in November 2015 "sank its hook in my heart".
She said she was shocked that the "person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country" was imitating a disabled reporter, "someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back".
"It kind of broke my heart, and 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," said the actress.
Streep did not mention Mr Trump by name, but warned against the consequences of bullying and mockery by high-profile people.
"This instinct to humiliate when it's modeled by someone in the public platform by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing," she said.
Mr Trump told the New York Times he had not seen the comments but was "not surprised" at the attack by "liberal movie people", the newspaper reported.
Streep, 67, was at the Beverly Hills awards to pick up her award for outstanding contribution to entertainment.
She also alluded to the anti-immigrant sentiment felt by some in the US after Mr Trump's victory.
Paying tribute to the diversity of the nominees, she pointed out that "Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if we kick them all out, you'll have nothing to watch".
Streep ended her acceptance speech with a tribute to Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher, who died last month.
She told the assembled A-listers: "We should all be very proud of the work Hollywood honours here tonight.
"As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia said to me once, 'Take your broken heart. Make it into art.'
"Thank you, friend."
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