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Meryl Streep: ‘I Don’t Want To Be’ A Political Leader Under Trump

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Katie Jerkovich Entertainment Reporter
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Meryl Streep said she doesn’t want to be a political leader during Donald Trump’s presidency, despite how vocal she’s been against him.

“It’s affected my life because I don’t really–I don’t want to be that. I don’t want to be that,” the 68-year-old actress shared during an interview with BuzzFeed Tuesday. (RELATED: Piers Morgan Says He Thinks ‘Trump’s Going To Win’ Following NYC Attack)

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“I’m a really private person, and like a lot of people in show business, I’m actually shy so it’s hard for me to do all this stuff,” she added. “I’ve lived through all these eras and it doesn’t feel like an alien landscape. But it does feel like stepping back in time and how quickly we forget what the world was like 40 years ago.”

Streep slammed the president for his immigration policy and imitating a disabled reporter earlier this year during her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2017 Golden Globes.

“There was one performance this year that stung–it sank its hooks into my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it,” Streep said. “It did its job. It made the audience laugh. It was that moment when the man asking to sit in the most important seat in the country mocked a disabled reporter.”

“It kind of broke my heart when I saw it and I still can’t get it out of my head, and this instinct to humiliate when it’s modeled by someone in a public platform filters down into everyone’s life,” she added.

“Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose,” she continued.

In response, Trump tweeted that the three-time Academy Award winning actress was one of the “most over-rated actresses in Hollywood.”