On Sunday night at the Golden Globes Awards, Meryl Streep made a powerful speech celebrating diversity in America:

What is Hollywood, anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from other places.

I was born and raised and educated in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola [Davis] was born in a sharecropper’s cabin in South Carolina, came up in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Sarah Paulson was born in Florida, raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids from Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. And Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates?

And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised in — no, in Ireland, I do believe. And she’s here nominated for playing a small-town girl from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian. And Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, is here for playing an Indian raised in Tasmania.

She also referred to the mocking of a disabled journalist by “the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country”:

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. And the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.

President-elect Donald Trump reacted on Twitter early Monday morning. He did not respond to Streep’s exaltation of diversity but focused on the incident with New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski in November 2015.

Trump said that Streep was a…

Trump’s comment on Kovaleski: