Meryl Streep’s poised and headline-making takedown of President-elect Donald Trump had Twitter users wondering one thing Sunday night: Which 140 characters would the president-elect use when he responded?
Based on past performances, folks predicted everything from Trump’s response to the time he would probably tweet his message.
Let me beat you to it @realDonaldTrump - "Dishonest Meryl Streep never was good at that acting thing. What is empathy? Don't need it. Sad."
— Michael Grant Terry (@LLMGT) January 9, 2017
Going to bed now so I can be ready to cover the likely 5 am Trump tweet on Meryl Streep. "Terrible Speech!" "Overrated!" #GoldenGlobes
— Pat Kiernan (@patkiernan) January 9, 2017
TRUMP 4:46 am: Hey Meryl, more like "The Devil Wears the Jacqueline Smith collection from KMart." I'm a TOTAL billionaire. You're not. SAD!
— beth loves cake, so (@bourgeoisalien) January 9, 2017
Can't wait for Donald Trump to tweet about how Meryl Streep is overrated
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) January 9, 2017
Meryl Streep, what a loser. No way she could've played Chachi. She'll never work again! Sad!
— Brent Spiner (@BrentSpiner) January 9, 2017
Trump is especially fond of hitting back by calling people overrated.
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) January 9, 2017
Not sure that's gonna work with Meryl Streep's career. pic.twitter.com/IqdBZVBD6C
@DanaSchwartzzz "empathy is a hoax created by the Hollywood elite"-Trump
— killermuses (@killermuses) January 9, 2017
@DanaSchwartzzz Time to build a wall around Hollywood. A great big beautiful wall. And when I say big, folks, I MEAN big. Big like in YUGE.
— Duncan Watson (@DuncanWatson8) January 9, 2017
‘I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death my right to disparage it in 140 characters or less."
— Colin Mochrie (@colinmochrie) January 9, 2017
trump gonna reference "death becomes her" in his 6am meryl streep tweet
— Desus Nice (@desusnice) January 9, 2017
I bet Donald Trump tweets tomorrow that Meryl Streep is ugly so who cares what she thinks anyway. #GoldenGlobes
— Lauren Chval (@lchval) January 9, 2017
Trump proved many right early Monday, tweeting that the acclaimed actor is ― you guessed it ― “over-rated.”
Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. She is a.....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017
Hillary flunky who lost big. For the 100th time, I never "mocked" a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him.......
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017
"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!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2017
In addition to his Twitter response, the president-elect made similar comments about the matter in a brief telephone interview with the New York Times, referring to Streep as a “Hillary lover.”
Donald Trump said he was "not surprised" to be criticized by "liberal movie people" at the Golden Globes https://t.co/qvkjrhayJT
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 9, 2017
This post has been updated to include Trump’s Twitter response.
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