Meryl Streep’s powerful speech at the Golden Globe Awards is everything we want to say to Donald Trump

Meryl Streep was conferred with the  Cecil B. DeMille Achievement Award At the 74th Golden Globe Awards, but a bigger deal was her acceptance speech, where she said everything she had to without saying anything. She took this opportunity to take on Donald Trumps’s infamous stance against Immigration in the most powerful way possible and put into words what everyone else was thinking. A applause worthy speech indeed as she made it very clear that “Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick ’em all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.” Kudos to this talented actress for choosing a platform like this to stand up for something she believed in! That’s Meryl Streep for you!

She further talked how broken she was to see this man at a powerful position impersonate a disabled being and actually have people laugh about it. “And 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. She also urged everyone to protect the press as they will need each other, way forward.

She choked as she ended with the late Carrie Fisher’s quote – “Take your broken art. Make into art.”

Here’s a bit from the speech taking on the Donald Trump’s anti-immigration stance

I was born and raised and created in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola [Davis] was born in a sharecropper’s cabin in South Carolina, and grew up in Central falls, Long Island. Sarah Paulson was raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids from Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Italy. Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Ethiopia, raised in — no, in Ireland, I do believe. And she’s here nominated for playing a small town girl from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian. And Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, is here for playing an Indian raised in Tasmania.