As America comes close to nominating a President this November, the presumptive nominees from both parties have been revealed. The obnoxious Republican candidate Donald Trump will go toe-to-toe with Democratic superstar Hilary Clinton who has been endorsed by several public figures such as Shonda Rhimes, Ellen Pompeo, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington and the greatest actor of all times, Meryl Streep.
As America comes close to nominating a President this November, the presumptive nominees from both parties have been revealed. The obnoxious Republican candidate Donald Trump will go toe-to-toe with Democratic superstar Hilary Clinton who has been endorsed by several public figures such as Shonda Rhimes, Ellen Pompeo, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington and the greatest actor of all times, Meryl Streep.
As the race heats up and mudslinging continues, one actor has raised the stakes by taking on the mighty Donald Trump and that’s Meryl Streep, three-time Oscar winning actress who showed the world once more why she is a legend like no other.
The story goes like this: while raising funds at a gala for the Public Theatre in New York, Meryl Streep impersonated Donald Trump, in a padded suit, wig and with an orange face. She even got the voice inflections right. Videos that have emerged online show Streep as Trump performing a duet with Christine Baranski’s who was essaying Hilary Clinton. The duo sang ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’ from Cole Porter’s musical Kiss Me, Kate.
Public Theatre artistic director Oskar Eustis revealed in a later interview that the idea to impersonate Trump was all Streep and she believed she could do it. The New York Times noted in a piece how Streep got everything right “down to the pursed lips and low-hanging belly. She got the braggadocio-inflected voice, too, even while singing.”
In a later statement, Streep announced that the performance as Trump was simply a one-off and said, “I appreciate the interest, but this was a one-off, a once in a (last in a) lifetime appearance of this character.”
Streep is not the only actor who finds the idea of Donald Trump as President an abomination. The list is fairly wrong as Susan Sarandon, Ben Stiller, George Clooney, Lena Dunham, Jane Fonda, Eva Longaria, Jennifer Lawrence as well as the late boxing legend, Muhammad Ali – all have shown disdain and no support for a Trump presidency.
