In another stunning display of left-wing hysteria and elite detachment from reality, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour — a British-based journalist who rarely misses an opportunity to bash America — sparked outrage by comparing a trip to the United States to traveling to **North Korea**. Yes, really.
In a June 4 podcast interview with her ex-husband, former Clinton State Department official Jamie Rubin, Amanpour claimed she was *“afraid”* to travel to the U.S. to deliver a commencement speech at Harvard, likening the experience to entering a communist dictatorship.
“I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea,” Amanpour said, without a hint of irony.
She went on to explain that because she doesn’t have a green card, she felt so unsafe entering the country — *the same country that invited her to deliver a prestigious address at Harvard, mind you* — that she ditched all her devices and brought only a burner phone, saying she consulted CNN’s security team beforehand.
“I didn’t take my iPad, not my mobile phone… I took a burner phone,” she told Rubin. “Can you imagine?”
Yes, Christiane. We can imagine. We can imagine the out-of-touch paranoia of a globetrotting CNN personality who breathes rarified liberal air and gets her perception of America from MSNBC panels and academic echo chambers.
Ironically, after all the hysteria, Amanpour admitted that her experience at the U.S. border was completely uneventful.
“Luckily, the immigration officer I encountered at Boston could not have been nicer,” she confessed. “So, huge sigh of relief I breathed.”
That’s right — the U.S. immigration officer greeted her professionally and courteously, like the vast majority of federal agents do every single day. But rather than correcting her preposterous fear-mongering, Amanpour doubled down: *“If I’m afraid, what do others think?”*
Let’s be clear: Amanpour’s real problem isn’t the United States — it’s that she’s bought into the elite, coastal media narrative that America is a dystopian nightmare simply because it elected Donald Trump. Her **Trump Derangement Syndrome** is so advanced that she treats airport security in Boston like she’s crossing into Pyongyang.
Her ex-husband, of course, took the opportunity to pile on, blaming Trump for Amanpour’s delusions.
“With Donald Trump’s basically weaponization of the immigration service… he imagines every non-American is a threat,” Rubin said, echoing Democrat talking points.
Not surprisingly, social media wasn’t buying any of it. One user on X joked, *“Don’t visit. We will survive.”* Another bluntly stated, *“Feel afraid to travel to America, then don’t come here. Simple.”*
It’s worth noting that this absurd podcast rant dropped just days after Amanpour stood before Harvard’s Kennedy School graduates and urged them to have “moral courage” and “speak up.” Maybe next time she should practice what she preaches — starting with speaking up against her own network’s anti-American bias.
Here’s the bottom line: The only thing Amanpour proved is that she, and much of the global liberal elite, are more afraid of American voters than they are of authoritarian regimes. And that tells us everything we need to know.
