Joy Behar Bonks Trump For Going ‘Tit For Tat’ With Meryl Streep
WATCH: Our co-hosts give their take on Meryl Streep slamming Donald Trump at last night's #GoldenGlobes and his fiery response. pic.twitter.com/uH1DfGtQ5P
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Last night, “overrated“/highly decorated actress Meryl Streep dedicated her acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award to tearing into President-elect Donald Trump, which earned her a steady stream of praise and rebukes. The praise came from those happy she was using her voice to promote the Committee to Protect Journalists and hold the PEOTUS accountable; the rebukes were from those who want to keep entertainment and politics separate.
Unsurprisingly, both sides were represented on today’s The View.
Jedediah Bila resurrected a talking point she’s used in the past, saying that people from any political background should be able to enjoy entertainment without feeling singled out or lectured to. She said that she thinks Streep is “a phenomenally talented actress,” but that she turned off the TV because she doesn’t want to “be lectured about climate change or about the NRA or about a left-wing issue or about a right-wing issue.”
Joy Behar was less worried about Streep speaking out than about Trump actually responding to her in a series of tweets.
“He’s supposed to be the president of the free world,” she exclaimed. “He’s not there to go tit for tat over every little sleight that goes through his thin skin.”
Bila said that she agreed that it isn’t the President-elect’s “place to respond that way” to something that happened at an awards show.
Next, Sunny Hostin jumped in to disagree with Bila’s assertion that politics and entertainment shouldn’t mix. She pointed out that famous people like actresses or sports stars are role models who should use their platform to speak out for what is right. Namely, she lauded Streep for speaking out in favor of freedom of the press and against the mocking of disabled people.
“That message was really significant to me,” she said. “It really resonated with me. What she said specifically was, ‘This instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life.’ That is very, very true.”
Watch above to see all of that, plus hear what Whoopi Goldberg and Sara Haines had to say.
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