Stephen King calls Donald Trump ‘emotionally unqualified’ for presidency after Twitter response to Meryl Streep
The President-elect took to Twitter to give a fiery response to criticism from the iconic actress
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Your support makes all the difference.Author Stephen King has called Donald Trump “emotionally unqualified” after his response to Meryl Streep’s criticism at the Golden Globes award ceremony.
Mr Trump took to Twitter and gave a fiery response to the criticism he faced from the iconic actress saying she is "over-rated".
Mr King, who penned Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, which was adapted into a hit film, said the President-elect’s response was "why most Americans feared his presidency".
“Trump's response to Meryl Streep--childish, churlish, petulant--is exactly why most Americans fear his presidency. Emotionally unqualified,” Mr King said.
Throughout the Golden Globes, numerous actors criticised Mr Trump but Meryl Streep’s speech in particular was notably passionate.
"Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick us all out, you’ll have nothing to watch except for football and mixed martial arts, which are not arts," she said.
She also noted Donald Trump publicly mocking Serge Kovaleski, a disabled reporter from the New York Times.
"There was nothing good about it, but it did its job. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can't get it out my head because it wasn’t in a movie, it was in real life,” she added.
“That instinct to humiliate when it’s modelled by someone in a public platform, it filters down into everyone’s life because it gives permission for others to do the same. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose."
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