Former Today co-host Katie Couric was slammed by panelists on Fox News’ The Five for saying that Trump supporters are driven by “anti-Intellectualism.”
Couric made the remarks will discussing the Make America Great Again movement on the latest episode of Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast.
“The socio-economic disparities are a lot and class resentment is a lot and anti-intellectualism and elitism is what is driving many of these anti-establishment [people] — which are Trump voters — so, I think that is a huge problem that we have to address,” she said about Trump voters.
“I mean globalization and the transition from an industrial to a technological society — I don’t know if you’ve ever been jealous of someone else or resentful — it is such a corroding and bitter, almost bile feeling,” Couric added.
Katie Couric thinks Trump voters don’t support globalism because they are jealous. pic.twitter.com/YcD18mBfgn
— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) April 15, 2024
When The Five reviewed the footage, Greg Gutfeld said that the former CBS Evening News anchor “became the latest elite blowhard to psychoanalyze Trump supporters.”
“America’s sweetheart, now an old fart, thinks she’s cracked the code of MAGA by calling them a bunch of rubes,” he said before showing footage of Couric’s commentary.
“Even after the colonoscopy, she’s still full of crap,” Gutfeld quipped in reference to the medical procedure the journalist got on air in 2000 to raise awareness for colon cancer screenings after her husband’s death from the disease.
British journalist Piers Morgan, who is a panelist on the Fox News show, urged the veteran newswoman to “put a sock it.”
He noted Couric, who claimed “that all the people who support Trump are jealous, bitter and resentful,” wrote an autobiography a few years ago ” in which she … launched a series of jealous, bitter and resentful attacks on other female TV hosts.
“There was nobody spared the bitter, jealous and resentful wrath of Katie Couric in that book,” Morgan said, listing off Martha Stewart and fellow journalist Diane Sawyer, amongst others.
Gutfeld-Even after the colonoscopy Katie Couric is still full of crap 😂 pic.twitter.com/eXy4NdNwPI
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“For her to start lambasting 18 million Americans who have the gall, in her eyes, to vote for the non-intellectual Trump, when she herself has been so hypocritical about spewing the bile herself, I suggest she put a sock in it,” he commented.
The internet didn’t pull any punches when reacting to Couric’s scathing rebuke of Trump supporters.
“I’ve never been a jealous person- and I find many of Trump supporters highly educated in vast arenas,” someone tweeted.
“I think Couric is a snob and a low IQ commie. She’s lived inside her glass bubble so long she’s completely out of touch with reality.”
“This is so disgusting and shows how out of touch she is. Make no mistake, this is how the media views Trump supporters,” another added.
Meanwhile, Maher, who recently admitted to being “okay” that abortion equates to “murder” because the world’s population is eight billion people, actually stood up for Trump supporters.
Bill Maher telling Katie Couric why he is bored with the 'negative view' on Trump, and why he wants to represent the Trump voter's viewpoint as well:
"Not to defend Trump, but to defend the people who still vote for him. Because what they see on the other side, to them is even… pic.twitter.com/l24hPXicCo— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) April 14, 2024
“Not to defend Trump, but to defend the people who still vote for him,” Maher cut off Couric. “Because what they see on the other side, to them, is even more dangerous.”
“Because it’s closer to home: ‘My kid is coming home from school and he thinks he’s a racist? He’s 5, what have you been telling him? My son thinks maybe he’s not a boy.’ And maybe that’s true, that happens. Those kind of things are what they say. ‘That’s why I’m voting for Trump,’” he defended.
“A backlash to the pendulum swinging so far to the left,” Couric noted.
Elsewhere in the interview, Maher enraged Couric when he lauded the former president for his CNN town hall last year, insisting that Trump “killed it.”
“He’s not a stand-up comedian,” Couric shot back, noting that “the audience” who “loved it” was comprised of his supporters.
“Popularity. Doesn’t matter. People loved him and what he was saying,” Maher remarked before blasting liberal talking heads.
“And then you cut to a panel of six know-it-alls in Washington who do nothing but talk about the negative,” he added.
“I’m all-in on the negative. No one’s been harder on Trump than me. But I get it, and I’m bored with it. And there’s a different way to do this, I think.”