Picture Worth a Thousand Words: Vince Vaughn, Mel Gibson React to Meryl Streep’s Speech

Epoch Newsroom
1/9/2017
Updated:
1/9/2017

Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn didn’t appear thrilled during Meryl Streep’s anti-Donald Trump speech during the Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday.

Vaughn and Gibson—two notable conservatives in Hollywood—worked together on the war film, “Hacksaw Ridge.” It’s unclear if the two actually voted for Trump, as Independent Journal Review notes.

Streep, who won the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the awards ceremony, lashed out at the president-elect.

“There was one performance this year that stunned me,” she said, referring to Trump “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. 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. Someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back,” she said. “It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can’t get it out of my head because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life.”

For his part, Trump went after Streep on Twitter, describing her as “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood.”

He added that she’s a “Hillary flunky who lost big,” saying that “for the 100th time, I never ”mocked“ a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him ‘groveling’ when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad. Just more very dishonest media!.”