Critics Roast Katie Couric for Asking Gavin Newsom If He’s TOO Good-Looking: ‘Not a Joke’

Katie Couric faced an online roasting after a snippet of her interview with California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) spread online in which she asked the governor if being too good-looking is a problem for him.

“Do you have a Zoolander problem?” Couric asked Newsom on her podcast Next Question, referring to the 2001 Ben Stiller comedy about male models.

The pair laughed as Couric asked, “Are you just ridiculously good-looking as Vogue said? No, seriously, what do you do about that?”

Couric was referring to a Vogue spread for Newsom that described him as “embarrassingly handsome.”

“You don’t do anything about it because if you do something about it, then you’re bullsh*tting people,” Newsom told Couric. “You know what? I am who I am. It’s fine. You don’t have to like me. Or maybe you like a slick person, I don’t know. Whatever. It’s okay.”

Couric then argued that Newsom being “authentic” sometimes works against him.

Critics were left unimpressed with the question, many arguing Couric was not acting as a journalist but rather as publicity for the California governor, who remains a rumored 2028 contender.

“I’m 100% sure she would ask the same of [Vice President JD Vance], naturally, of course,” Megyn Kelly wrote on X.

“Close your eyes and picture Hunter Biden. They are the same guy. Confident, tone deaf and dumb,” Adam Carolla wrote.

Others were either taken aback by the odd question or left with little to no faith in the media.

Couric did get to some subjects beyond Newsom’s appearance in the podcast episode.

At one point, she brought up some brutal numbers for California, including the state’s poverty rate, informing Newsom that many voters see the numbers and simply say, “No thanks.”

“The highest poverty rate tied with Louisiana, the highest unemployment, and as Nick Kristof of the New York Times recently wrote, Mississippi schools outperform California schools, especially for poor kids. Now people see that or hear that or read that and they’re like, ‘No thanks, California. No thanks, Gavin Newsom. We’re good,'” Couric said.

Newsom defended his position for approximately four minutes.

“Our poverty rate’s about average. And we’re right up there with Florida, Louisiana, and others with the supplemental poverty rate, which has been the case for 40 years,” he said. “And the original sin there is housing, which has been a problem in California since Ronald Reagan left office as governor. And we simply have a supply-demand imbalance.”

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