Katie Couric tells Bill Maher that Trump support is born out of 'anti-intellectualism', leaving MAGA fans fuming

Katie Couric has GOP loyalists furious aft she claimed enactment for Donald Trump stems from 'anti-intellectualism' and the Make America Great Again question is afloat of 'jealous, bitter, resentful' people. 

Couric, 67, made the remarks connected the latest occurrence of the Club Random podcast, wherever she talked astir erstwhile President Donald Trump and the MAGA question with big Bill Maher. 

'The socio-economic disparities...and people resentment...and anti-intellectualism and elitism is what is driving galore of these anti-establishment [people] — which are Trump voters,' she said. 

'I mean globalization and the modulation from an concern to a technological nine — I don't cognize if you've ever been jealous of idiosyncratic other oregon resentful — it is specified a corroding and bitter, astir bile feeling,' she added. 

The comments person near Trump supporters furious, arsenic galore took to societal media to blast the former Today Show anchor and her comments arsenic 'disgusting' and 'out of touch'. 

 One idiosyncratic wrote: 'This is truthful disgusting and shows however retired of interaction she is. Make nary mistake, this is however the media views Trump supporters.' 

'I've ne'er been a jealous person- and I find galore of Trump supporters highly educated successful immense arenas,' different idiosyncratic said. 

'I deliberation Couric is simply a snob and a debased IQ commie. She's lived wrong her solid bubble truthful agelong she's wholly retired of interaction with reality,' they continued. 

Another remark reads: 'Katie Couric says… MAGA is afloat of jealous, bitter, resentful people… …because we are poor, uneducated, anti-establishment and jealous of radical similar her. 

'The 'elite' request to archer lower- and middle-class radical however to live, what to think, and however to vote.' 

A idiosyncratic agreed, saying: 'This is what you telephone projection- blaming the different broadside for feeling a definite mode erstwhile it's really you who feels that way.' 

Couric and Maher had a contentious treatment astir the erstwhile president and the MAGA question during the occurrence aired connected Sunday. 

'People loved him and what helium was saying,' Maher said arsenic helium insisted that media pundits and commentators should instrumentality clip to recognize Trump voters. 

'So, what is it?' Couric asked. 

'Not to support Trump, but to support the radical who inactive ballot for him. Because what they spot connected the different side, to them, is adjacent much dangerous. Because it's person to home.' 

'"My kid is coming location from school, and helium thinks he's a racist? He's five, what person you been telling him? My lad thinks possibly he's not a boy,"' Maher said, referring to conservatives' onslaught connected gender-affirming attraction for transgender and schoolhouse programming connected race. 

'And possibly that's true, that happens. Those kinds of things are what they say. 'That's wherefore I'm voting for Trump,' Maher said. 

The 68-year-old big said that Trump 'killed it' during the CNN municipality hallway past year, noting the audience's affirmative effect to his remarks. 

'He's not a stand-up comedian!' Courier replied. ''He's sidesplitting it.' He's not a stand-up comedian.' 

'Popularity. Doesn't matter. People loved him and what helium was saying. And past you chopped to a sheet of six know-it-alls successful Washington who bash thing but speech astir the negative,' Maher said.

'I'm all-in connected the negative. No one's been harder connected Trump than me. But I get it, and I'm bored with it. And there's a antithetic mode to bash this, I think,' helium said.