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Feuding with Meryl Streep, Trump can't avoid obvious falsehoods

If Donald Trump doesn't care what celebrities say about him, why is he responding to Meryl Streep with demonstrable lies?
Meryl Streep accepts the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards
Meryl Streep accepts the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 8, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California.
At the Golden Globes ceremony last night, Meryl Streep used part of her time in the spotlight to denounce Donald Trump, focusing specifically on the Republican's mockery of journalist Serge Kovaleski and the reporter's physical disability during the campaign.

"It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I can't get it out of my head, because it wasn't in a movie. It was real life," Streep said. "And this instinct, to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing."Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose," she added. "We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call him on the carpet for every outrage."