"Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence" said Meryl Streep as she gave a powerful anti-Trump message at the golden Globe Awards held Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills on Sunday.
The awards were hosted by Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show.
Viola Davis introduced the Hollywood veteran before presenting her with the Cecil B. DeMille award.
"Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick us all out, you'll have nothing to watch except for football and mixed martial arts, which are not arts," she said tearfully and with a faint voice upon accepting the career-spanning honor.
She then noted that one "performance" stood out for her this year; that of Donald Trump publicly mocking The New York Times' Serge Kovaleski, a disabled reporter.
"There was nothing good about it, but it did its job," she said. "It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can't get it out my head because it wasn’t in a movie; it was in real life. That instinct to humiliate when it's modeled by someone in a public platform, it filters down into everyone's life because it gives permission for others to do the same."
Streep also stressed the importance of the press to stand up to Trump "We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage ... We're going to need them going forward and they're going to need us to safeguard the truth," she said of journalists.
Streep concluded her speech by quoting Carrie Fisher: "As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, 'Take your broken heart, make it into art.' "
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