Meryl Streep Gives Kimmel Tongue Bath Amid Trump Feud: ‘You’re a Prince. You’re Carrying the Banner of Freedom of the Press’

Meryl Streep Gives Kimmel Tongue Bath Amid Trump Feud: ‘You’re a Prince. You’re Carrying the Banner of Freedom of the Press’


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Meryl Streep, promoting the Disney film The Devil Wears Prada 2, appeared on the Disney show Jimmy Kimmel Live! last week and all but made out with the embattled late-night host, lavishing Kimmel with praise amid his primetime war of words with President Donald Trump.

“How are you?” Streep asked Kimmel.

“I’m holding up,” Kimmel replied.

“You’re a prince. You are a Knight Templar,” Streep said. “You’re carrying the banner of freedom of the press.”

Kimmel replied, “I’m just trying to do some jokes,”

“We all depend on you — and the world is listening. I’ve just come from around the world,” Streep said.

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Streep, of course was publicly siding with Kimmel after he said First Lady Melania Trump looks like an “expectant widow” just days before an armed Kamala Harris donor attempted to assassinate the president at last week’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. President Trump, and Mrs. Trump, lashed

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