appeared to take a subtle swipe at US president Donald Trump as she shared a cryptic video on social media. The star, 53, took to and reposted a video of Meryl Streep’s speech at the Golden Globes in 2017. After accepting the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement, the 75-year-old delivered a powerful speech in which she criticised the president without mentioning him by name.
She called out the politician for imitating a disabled reporter while campaigning to be president, saying it “gives permission” to others to do the same. The Oscar-winning actress used almost the entire speech to say his actions legitimised bullying. During the powerful speech, Streep mentioned the different places stars hail from, saying: “Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates?
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Penny Lancaster took a swipe at Donald Trump (Image: ITV)
“And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and was raised… 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 playing an Indian raised in Tasmania.”
She continued: “So is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick ’em all out, you’ll have nothing else to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.”
Later in the speech, Streep criticised Mr Trump’s behaviour after he performed an impression of Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from a congenital joint condition, at a rally when he was running for president in 2015.
She said: “But there was one performance this year that stunned me; 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.
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The actress used her speech to criticise the president (Image: Getty)
“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.
“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. And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing.”
The Devil Wears Prada star added: “Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. O.K., go on with it.”
Penny has banned her husband from attending Trump’s parties (Image: Getty)
It comes after Lancaster revealed that she banned her husband, , from attending Mr Trump’s parties. She explained the reason behind her decision on Loose Women last week, saying that Trump’s rhetoric when running for president crossed boundaries.
The former model listed off comments Trump had made about Mexicans and Muslims in the past, explaining it was the last straw for her.
She said: “I was just like, woah, this is just crossing all sorts of boundaries here, this man sounds like he is going to disrupt the world in an unfortunate way.
“And from that point onwards, I said to my husband, I said, ‘Darling we are not going anywhere near him again, I cannot be in the same space as someone who can speak that kind of language’.”