The One Thing Donald Trump Finds Underrated, According To His Tweets
Donald Trump calls everything overrated—even Meryl Streep. So we checked his Twitter feed to see what he thinks is underrated.
During Sunday’s Golden Globes, actress Meryl Streep was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award and ripped President-elect Donald Trump in her acceptance speech, focusing on an incident in which the Republican politician mocked a disabled reporter during a rally in South Carolina when he was a running for president.
“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 kinda gives permission for other people to do the same thing,” Streep said to applause. “Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.”
In typical fashion, Trump took to Twitter in the early hours of Monday morning to reply to Streep’s comments.
“Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes,” he tweeted. “She is a Hillary flunky who lost big. For the 100th time, I never ‘mocked’ a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him 'groveling' when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad. Just more very dishonest media!”
The jab at Streep, of course, wasn't the first time Trump has called a popular public figure overrated. He’s done it to everybody from conservatives media personalities to comedians. Here’s a quick rundown of all the folks our incoming POTUS thinks could be taken down a peg.
Hamilton
Megyn Kelly, over and over again
The Clintons
Former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Conservative political analyst George Will
(Lil’) Marco Rubio
Jon Stewart
Jerry Seinfeld
Barack Obama, of course
There is, however, one person, place or thing Trump has called underrated in his long history on Twitter:
Former Yankees pitcher Hiroki Kuroda
Kuroda pitched for the New York Yankees from 2012 to 2014. Trump may have been on the money when it comes to the Japanese baseball star. New York Sports Day’s Steven Simineri called Kuroda, “consistently one of the more underappreciated pitchers in the big show.”
So, that’s something.
