Former “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric is emerging as a vocal critic of President Trump, twice this week criticizing him for his public remarks.
Couric on Wednesday morning reacted to Trump’s campaign-style rally in Phoenix from the previous night, during which he railed against the “sick people” in the news media and threatened a government shutdown if Congress doesn’t approve funding for his proposed border wall.
“This morning, after reading the totality of Trump’s speech in Phoenix, I am truly afraid for our country,” Couric said on Twitter.
This morning, after reading the totality of @realDonaldTrump ‘s speech in Phoenix, I am truly afraid for our country.
— Katie Couric (@katiecouric) August 23, 2017
On Monday, Couric, tweeting during the president’s remarks on Afghanistan, which were preceded by more comments about the racial violence in Charlottesville, Va., said she was “once again getting whiplash re his views or hate and division.”
Couric is currently producing a documentary for National Geographic on “the pivotal social, demographic, and cultural changes that are currently tearing us apart.”
