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White House News Cont. Lester Holt To Interview President
Trump Is Spending Time Lashing Out At Meryl Streep About Her Golden Globes’ Speech And The Media After Tough Week
Obama Before Final Speech
Donald Trump, after an in- telligence report concluded that Russia tried to help him get elected, is going after ... Meryl Streep.
Meryl Streep used a speech at the Golden Globes Sunday to speak out against Donald Trump, singling out his appar- ent mockery of a disabled re- porter in 2015 and prompting the incoming president to criti- cize the Oscar-winning actress as "over-rated" and a "flunky."
Though she never mentioned Trump by name, she did refer to a moment when a "person asking to sit in the most re- spected seat in our country" gave an impression of a dis- abled reporter.
She noted that his "perfor- mance" broke her heart.
Trump has said that his in- tention was never to mock New York Times reporter Serge F. Kovaleski, who has a congen- ital disorder.
"Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence," Streep said. "And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose."
Responding to the speech on Twitter, Trump launched a scathing attack on Streep, call- ing her "one of the most over- rated actresses in Hollywood,"
as well as a "Hillary flunky who lost big.”
For the record, Mrs. Clin- ton did not lose big. She won the popular vote by nearly three million votes and lost the pres- idency by losing Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by about the number of people who cheered the Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday.
Trump has also turned his attention to a favorite foe: the news media
The president-elect may not have owned up to any discom- fort over the conclusion of American intelligence agencies that the Russian president tried to help him get elected, but his Twitter account betrays a cer- tain unease. His pattern during the campaign was to turn against the news media when he was on his heels.
In his tweet he says:
Dishonest media says Mex- ico won't be paying for the wall if they pay a little later so the wall can be built more quickly. Media is fake!
Then, early Monday, he praised the media tycoon Ru- pert Murdoch, whose Fox News channel has turned in- creasingly pro-Trump since being abandoned by critics such as Megyn Kelly.
NBC News' Lester Holt will interview President Barack Obama on Tuesday — ahead of the president's farewell ad- dress to the nation in Chicago.
Holt will travel on Air Force One with President Obama on his final trip as com- mander-in-chief to Chicago — the birthplace of his presiden- tial campaign.
The two will also visit a restaurant in Chicago's Hyde Park and discuss how well the President believes he delivered on promises he made eight years ago and his hope for the nation going forward.
The interview will be the focus of a one-hour "Dateline NBC" special, "Barack Obama: The Reality of Hope," airing Friday at 10 p.m. ET.
Parts of the interview will also be featured on the various platforms of NBC News and MSNBC, including TODAY, "NBC Nightly News" and NBC- News.com.
President Says He And Trump Are ‘Opposites’ President Obama said he
thinks it's fair to say that he and President-elect Donald Trump "are sort of opposites in some ways," but he admitted there is one thing they have in
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
common: confidence. "It's probably a prerequisite
for the job, or at least you have to have enough craziness to think that you can do the job," President Obama told ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos in their final interview on “This Week’’.
President Obama revealed more insight into his private conversations with President- elect Trump, saying their con- versations have been "cordial" and Trump has been open to his suggestions.
"The main thing that I've tried to transmit is that there's a difference between governing and campaigning, so that what he has to appreciate is as soon as you walk into this office after you've been sworn in,
you're now in charge of the largest organization on Earth," President Obama said in an exclusive interview on "This Week."
He also noted that he's tried to impress upon Trump that running the White House is different than any other job.
Saying, there are going to be times where the only way you can make a good decision is if you have confidence that the process is working," the Presi- dent said. "And the people that you put in charge are giving you their very best assess- ments.”
President Obama said he doesn’t believe Trump has spent much time "sweating the details" of being president, which he acknowledged could be a strength or a weakness.
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