Trump's Transition Poll #s Dropping Fast | Trump Says Repeal ACA At Once
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Only 37% of voters approve of Donald Trump's transition to the presidency, writes a new Quinnipiac University poll. Women lead the way with 59% of female voters disapproving of how Trump is doing his job.
The measures of Trump's personal qualities all are more negative than they were in a November 22 Quinnipiac University poll:
Meryl Streep Denounces Trump Without Saying His Name
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Meryl Streep Just Denounced Trump and Called for Freedom of the Press in One Truly Epic Golden Globes Speech Marie Claire
"This instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform . . . filtered into everybody's life."
Actor Meryl Streep chose her platform of receiving her Golden Globe Cecil B. Demille Award to speak about America's president-elect Donald Trump.
"There was one performance this year that stunned me," she said. "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, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can't get it out of my head because it wasn't in a movie. It was real life."
With real tears -- that the president-elect would most surely mock as representing the fake tears of liberal Hollywood and liberal, pc Hillary supporters -- flowing in the room, Streep continued:
"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," she continued. "Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. And the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose...This brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood foreign press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the committee to protect journalists. Because we're going to need them going forward. And they'll need us to safeguard the truth.
One more thing: Once, when I was standing around on the set one day whining about something—we were going to work through supper, or the long hours, or whatever—Tommy Lee Jones said to me, 'Isn't it such a privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?' Yeah, it is. And we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should all be very proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight. As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, "Take your broken heart, make it into art. Thank you."
Donald Trump Calls Meryl Streep An 'Overrated Actress' and 'Hillary Flunky'
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President-elect Donald Trump hit back at esteemed actor Meryl Streep who criticized him in her acceptance speech for her lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes in Los Angeles last night.
"She is a Hillary flunky who lost big," Trump tweeted, as he insisted once again that he never mocked reporter Serge Kovaleski at a South Carolina rally in November of last year.
Trump's denial that he never imitated Kovaleski, who has a congenital joint condition, is absurd and a most concerning trait in a future president. As is the reality with most of Trump's disparaging antics that play to his audience, they are obvious and highly-documented in film of his own behavior. Trump's denial is nothing more than a backtracking of reality, and thinking people who are fact-based are not humiliated into submission over Donald Trump and his outlandish arrogance that what we saw before our very eyes is not the truth.
This deeply troubling trait of Trump's tendency to lie about reality may play well with his voters -- although many have criticized this trait -- but it doesn't play well with me or with fearless people like Meryl Streep.
President-elect Trump is now facing a nation of Americans, propelled to office by three million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton in a nation where about one in four eligible voters actually supported him. This is no mandate of citizen admiration of Trump's despicable, deplorable inability to accept responsibility for his own actions. It's the sign of a very weak, insecure personality.
Read more about Meryl Streep's powerful speech that denounces the president-elect.
Margaret Zhang Captures Tory Burch's January 2017 Collection As Burch Embraces Women's Ambition
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Margaret Zhang Captures Kate Bosworth For Tory Burch's Gemini Link January 2017 Collection
Back to Tory Daily and her feature in Vogue January 2017 'The New Girl Bosses'. Tory writes: "We’re proud to note that three Fellows from the Tory Burch Foundation were highlighted in their roles as female entrepreneurs making waves: Allison DeVane of tea purveyor Teaspressa, Emellie O’Brien of the environmental-consulting firm Earth Angel and Ericka Lassair of gourmet Creole-style hot-dogs company Diva Dawg. "
The Tory Birch Foundation takes a refreshing approach to women's issues with their clear acknowledgement:
"We are empowering women everywhere to embrace ambition."
This is what total brand integration looks like, and it's deeply personal. I will not use the word 'authentic' which replaces 'hero' as a word used to such a fault that it has lost meaning. Call me wowed yet again by Tory Burch and the people in her network!
