Meryl Streep shined bright Sunday night after sharing her message, targeted towards President-elect Donald Trump, at the Golden Globes. Now, ‘Harry Potter’ author J.K. Rowling is showing her support for the award-winning actress, once again expressing her aversion towards the incoming President of the United States.
Streep was honored with the Cecille B. DeMille Award during the ceremony, after which she took some time to call out Trump for mocking a handicapped New York Times journalist, Serge Kovaleski, during a campaign rally in 2015. The 67-year-old actress also urged the audience, actors and members of the media alike, to “hold power to account.”
As for the British novelist, she took to Twitter and responded to a tweet saying that Trump might also call her “overrated.”
As expected, Trump let out his frustration over Streep’s Golden Globes speech, taking to Twitter and calling her out as “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood.” The President-elect also called her a “Hillary lover,” which led to several jokes and memes online.
“Never forget that some people’s good opinion would be more insulting than their abuse!” Rowling replied. The anti-Trump writer-turned-producer also said that it is not only “a pleasure” to criticize the business mogul; it remains “a duty” as well.
Rowling, who is well known for her philanthropic work besides her books, has been an active Trump critic during the election campaign period, even comparing him to Lord Voldemort, the main antagonist in the ‘Harry Potter’ book series.
“Voldemort was nowhere near as bad” as Trump, she pointed out in a tweet.
In a previous speech for the PEN America Literary Gala, Rowling placed the presidential candidate as a crucial example to demonstrate the significance of free speech.
“Intolerance of alternative viewpoints is spreading to places that make me, a moderate and a liberal, most uncomfortable. Only last year, we saw an online petition to ban Donald Trump from entry to the U.K. It garnered half a million signatures,” Rowling pointed out.
