U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has hit back at Meryl Streep’s criticism of him as she received a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes.

    He tweeted: “Meryl Streep, one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood, doesn’t know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes.

    “She is a Hillary flunky* who lost big,” Trump added of the three-time Oscar-winning actress.

    She said: “When the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose.”

    The hostility* towards Trump from the world of show biz contrasts with the feting of his defeated rival in November’s presidential election, Hillary Clinton.

    Streep told the Golden Globes audience in Beverly Hills on Sunday as she picked up the Cecil B DeMille award: “You and all of us in this room really belong to the most vilified* segments in American society right now.

    “Think about it, Hollywood, foreigners, and the press.”

    “There was one performance this year that stunned* me,” she continued, without naming Trump.

    “It sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective, and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth.

    “It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter. Someone he outranked* in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back.

    “It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can’t get it out of my head because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life.”

    Streep was referring to a rally in South Carolina in November 2015 when Trump jerked* his arms in front of his body as he made fun of Serge Kovaleski, a New York Times journalist who has a congenital* joint condition.

    The actress’ attack dominated coverage of an event that is usually a light-hearted* jamboree* in the annual Hollywood awards season ahead of next month’s Oscars.

    Trump, who will be inaugurated* in less than two weeks, tweeted Monday morning: “For the 100th time, I never ‘mocked*’ a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him ‘groveling*’ when he totally changed a 1- year-old story that he had written in order to make me look bad. Just more very dishonest media!”

    (SD-Agencies)