In case you somehow missed it, Donald Trump’s latest beef is inexplicably with beloved actress Meryl Streep, who — while accepting her Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes Sunday night — admonished the president-elect for being a bully, among other things. You could have heard a pin drop as her powerful and poignant remarks captivated the room.
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.
It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter. 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.
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Trump immediately fired back to a New York Times reporter who asked him to comment, and then doubled down on his remarks by tweeting that Ms. Streep is “one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood.” Ah, yes. Because apparently three Academy Awards, eight Golden Globes, three Critics’ Choice Awards, ten Peoples’ Choice awards, etc., etc., etc., can be wrong.
The internet was quick to rally around Streep following slight backlash on Twitter, and by Monday morning a new hashtag was born to ponder what else — aside from the great Meryl Streep — Donald Trump thinks is overrated. The results were not kind, and at least one person even saw this coming a mile away.
https://twitter.com/dilillicious/status/818475150190505985
https://twitter.com/Atom_Murray/status/818478191136284672
Class. Humility. Basic human decency. #ThingsTrumpThinksAreOverrated
— Chris Gore (@ThatChrisGore) January 9, 2017
Martin Luther King
Picasso
Abraham Lincoln
John Coltrane
Toni Morrison
Oprah
Michael Phelps
Albert Einstein#ThingsTrumpThinksAreOverrated— Cyrus McQueen (@CyrusMMcQueen) January 9, 2017
https://twitter.com/wematchhearts_/status/818474129988943872
https://twitter.com/MatthewKick/status/818491142689980417
Consent
The popular vote
The electoral college
Security briefings
1st Amendment
Thinking before tweeting#ThingsTrumpThinksAreOverrated— Melanie Cannon (@zanylanie) January 9, 2017
#ThingsTrumpThinksAreOverrated The truth, facts, honesty, freedom, thinking before tweeting, morals, decendy, knowing how to spell words…
— #RemoveTrump (@Blue______Wave) January 9, 2017
A conscience.
#ThingsTrumpThinksAreOverrated pic.twitter.com/M4NujV4bKM— Legal Weed 4 SC 🍃 (@LegalWeed4SC) January 9, 2017
#ThingsTrumpThinksAreOverrated:
First Amendment
Morality
The Pope
Patriotism
Beyonce
Facts
Hamilton
Paying taxes
POWs
Obama
Integrity— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 9, 2017
Winning the popular vote. #ThingsTrumpThinksAreOverrated
— sarah (@_sxk_) January 9, 2017
Not be a National Embarrassment. Every. Single. Day. #ThingsTrumpThinksAreOverrated pic.twitter.com/XUYduOYfJC
— X Polly Litical (@VileEpiphany) January 9, 2017
The Constitution 🇺🇸#ThingsTrumpThinksAreOverrated
— MOB=March on Blue🗳 (@MOB_to_POLLS) January 9, 2017
#ThingsTrumpThinksAreOverrated; intelligence, class, decency, empathy, compassion, composure, maturity, restraint, positivity, humanity
— Bob Smith (@b0bsmith) January 9, 2017
Other #ThingsTrumpThinksAreOverrated:
U.S. military
Intelligence briefings
Criticism of Putin
Facts
Democracy
Acting like an adult https://t.co/4YmoxCQW80— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) January 9, 2017
But hey, we really don’t have to speculate about what Donald Trump thinks is overrated, because he’s made it perfectly clear on many occasions, as CNN political commentator Keith Boykin points out:
#ThingsTrumpThinksAreOverrated
Meryl Streep
Hamilton
Jon Stewart
Jerry Seinfeld
Megyn Kelly
George Will
Paying taxes
Ethics
Decency
Honesty pic.twitter.com/DiIsIOWkCI— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) January 9, 2017