Surprise, surprise.
After calling actress Meryl Streep overrated on Monday morning, a 2015 interview has resurfaced in which the business mogul-turned-president elect names the Oscar winner as one of his favorite actresses.
“Julia Roberts is terrific, and many others,” he then told The Hollywood Reporter, before admitting, “Meryl Streep is excellent; she’s a fine person, too. The problem is I'll name three or four or five and then the hundred that I know will be insulted, and I don't mean to insult them."
Fast forward to present day, and the incoming commander-in-chief launched one of his signature tirades on Twitter condemning Streep’s Golden Globes impassioned acceptance speech that criticized Trump without including a single mention of his name.
Unfortunately for Trump, Streep is hands down one of the most acclaimed actresses of her generation. Over the course of her career, she’s received three Academy Awards, three BAFTAs, eight Golden Globes, and 19 Academy Award nominations. Her speech also inspired viewers to donate to the Committee to Protect Journalists, who saw a spike in more than $80,000 in donations as of Monday afternoon.
“There was one performance this year that stunned me — it sank its hooks in my heart,” she said in her speech Sunday night. “Not because it was good; there was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh, and show their teeth.
“It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter,” she continued, referring to a 2015 speech when Trump apparently mocked a disabled New York Times reporter. “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.”
Watch the full acceptance speech above and read The Hollywood Reporter’s full 2015 interview with Trump here.
