Katie Couric and the director of the John F. Kennedy Middle for the Performing arts traded barbs on Saturday, after which once more on Monday, after Couric known as the middle’s new Donald Trump-mandated route is “a shame.”
It started on Saturday when, within the feedback of a Kennedy Middle Instagram submit about an Opera efficiency that evening, Couric wrote, “That is so unhappy. I grew up going to the Kennedy Middle which was about 20 minutes from our home in Arlington. What they’ve finished to it’s a shame.”
Her remark acquired 44 replies, lots of which got here from indignant followers of Trump — amongst them the present director of the Kennedy Middle himself, Richard Grenell. Trump’s so-called “Particular Presidential Envoy for Particular Missions” replied, “we didn’t cancel a single present. Your staff couldn’t carry out for Republicans. They cancelled. It’s this precise intolerance that we battle in opposition to. Everyone seems to be welcome to the Kennedy Middle….even you!”
That was the place issues lay, till Monday morning that’s, when the Day by day Beast revealed a narrative about it, headlined “Katie Couric begins weird battle with opera after DC’s Kennedy Middle was taken over by MAGA.”
Shortly after, the Kennedy Middle’s Instagram account posted a screenshot of the story and shared a hyperlink. Accompanying these have been restatement of what Grenell mentioned two days earlier and a belittling honorific: “The Kennedy Middle is for EVERYONE. That features Mrs. Couric.”
Couric’ responded laconically, commenting, ‘s laconic response: “That is hilarious. And it’s Ms. Couric to you.”
Curiously, the vast majority of replies this time got here from individuals criticizing (or mocking) the Kennedy Middle’s social media staff for posting in regards to the Day by day Mail’s article within the first place. Which may be why when Grenell posted in regards to the article himself, he did so over on X, the place he declared “@katiecouric is so mad that everybody is welcome on the @kencen. @DailyMail.”
Grenell’s X submit doesn’t nonetheless seem to have sparked a bigger backlash, for now no less than. As of this writing it has acquired solely 139 replies.
