That Gif of Meryl Streep Mocking a Disabled Person Is Totally Fake

Via-Gizmodo by Matt Novak

Hack Kayla Vas has to make up news instead of reporting on facts.

Here’s the FAKE tweet.

#MerylStreep made fun of mentally challenged on late night tv here’s proof her entire speech was a fraud pic.twitter.com/vhjhEJPPsH

— Kayla Vas On Air (@Kayla_Vas) January 9, 2017

But as Twitter user Erik Patterson points out, the clip of Streep actually comes from the July 27, 2009 episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. She was promoting her film Julie & Julia and she was actually talking about filming with a lion in the 1985 film Out of Africa.