'They're really thin-skinned': Katie Couric says she's 'unfazed' by Trump and MAGA attacks

A long list of universities, law firms, media organizations and tech companies have been making a concerted effort to avoid angering President Donald Trump. But one media figure who is vowing that she won't back down from publicly criticizing him is Katie Couric.

During an interview with the Daily Beast published on November 4, the veteran television journalist, now 68, said she is "unfazed" by Trump.

Couric told the Beast, "Donald Trump has called me a 'has been,' but I'm just happy to be a 'has been' who can speak her mind…. I mean, honey, I've been in the tabloids for years…. they've accused me of having a threesome with Matt Lauer. There's a lot I can handle."

Lauer, Couric's former co-host on "The Today Show," was ousted from that program because of sexual misconduct allegations.

These days, Couric has her own company, Katie Couric Media, co-founded in 2017. And she vowed to keep speaking out against the "destruction of so many norms" occurring during Trump's second presidency.

Couric told the Beast, "I'm an independent journalist now. I don't have any corporate overlords kind of trying to influence how I report on things that are happening. I feel incredibly liberated."

The former NBC journalist recalled when Richard Grenell — Trump's hand-picked official to oversee his overhaul of the Kennedy Center — attacked her after she called what the administration had done to the vaunted institution a "disgrace." In one Instagram post, the Kennedy Center's official account wrote: "The Kennedy Center is for EVERYONE. That includes Mrs. Couric."

“I just thought, wow, they’re really thin-skinned — I’m obviously getting to somebody in that institution,” Couric told the Beast.

Read the Daily Beast's interview with Katie Couric at this link.