Megyn Kelly was left virtually speechless by Katie Couric’s recent comments in which she said former President Donald Trump’s supporters were driven by “anti-intellectualism.”
Kelly played a clip of a recent interview Couric gave with Bill Maher on his podcast, in which she described political polarization in the country.
“Talk about what you don’t understand,” Kelly said on “The Megyn Kelly Show” on Wednesday.
“Socioeconomic disparities are large, class anger is large, and anti-intellectualism and elitism are what are driving many of these dissidents.” [people] So I think this is a big issue that we have to address,” Couric said on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast.
Couric went on to say that globalization and the decline of U.S. manufacturing have left Trump supporters feeling “jealousy” and “resentment,” feelings that are “rotten” and “bitter,” and “almost bilious.” “It’s a close feeling,” the former NBC TODAY host said. He said.
“It’s amazing,” Kelly said Wednesday, replaying Couric’s remarks on her SiriusXM podcast.
Kelly said Couric appeared to be saying that people who voted for President Trump were “bitter, jealous, and corrupt in their envy of her half.”
Kelly likened Couric’s comments to Hillary Clinton’s comment during her ill-fated 2016 presidential bid that she called Trump supporters “a bunch of deplorables.”
Kelly said Couric’s comments were “yet again full of deplorable content.”
“These are anti-intellectual, vitriolic, jealous Trump supporters,” she said, paraphrasing Couric’s words sarcastically.
“That’s the problem. They’re bitter.”
“I mean, talk about things you don’t understand,” Kelly said of Couric.
The Post has reached out to Couric for comment.
Couric pushed back against Maher, saying he had little trust in legacy media because of what Maher called “biased” reporting.
She defended the press, saying “things have changed dramatically” because of President Trump, and accused him of erasing “decency” and “a level of basic decency” in this country.
