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<\/a>Meryl Streep (Photo by Paul Drinkwater\/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
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Former CNN host Piers Morgan says Meryl Streep’s “hypocritical” putdown of President-elect Donald Trump at Sunday’s Golden Globes awards was “easily the worst performance” of her career.<\/p>\n
“How much more effective would it have been had the most powerful woman in Hollywood called for unity not division, demanded a stop to all the teeth-gnashing and wailing over the election result, and urged Donald Trump in his inauguration speech to preach tolerance, fairness and equality?” Morgan wrote in a column for London’s Daily Mail.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “That would have been a truly courageous and admirable thing to do. Instead, Meryl Streep poured another 100 gallons of oil onto an already inflamed toxic fire \u2026 Meryl, I still love you dearly, but you had a chance to bring your country together last night and you blew it.”<\/p>\n Streep, as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award, at the glitzy event, lashed into Trump for his alleged mocking of a disabled New York Times reporter and called on Hollywood to double down in its support of a free press.<\/p>\n Morgan singled out what he said was an example of the Oscar-winning actress'”shocking hypocrisy.\u00a0”<\/p>\n “What about the 2003 Oscars when she leaped to her feet and gave child rapist Roman Polanski a standing ovation after he was announced as winner of Best Director for \u2018The Pianist?”’ said Morgan, referring to the director’s plea to a statuary rape charge.<\/p>\n