CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour revealed during an episode of her podcast “The Ex Files” earlier this week that while making preparations to fly to America, she felt as though she were traveling to North Korea.

It didn’t take long for people on the internet to tear into her over her claim.

In a conversation with her ex-husband, Jamie Rubin, a former State Department official, the British-born Amanpour recounted when she was to give a talk at Harvard’s Kennedy School last month. While a well-known media figure, she said she was scared of being stopped by border security.

“I must say I was afraid,” Amanpour stated during the video podcast. “I’m a foreigner. I don’t have a green card. I’m not an American citizen. I’m fairly prominent, and I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea. I took a burner phone. Imagine that. I didn’t take a single…not my mobile phone, not my iPad, nothing, and I had nothing on the burner phone except a few numbers.”

She told Rubin that she had a conversation with CNN security before her visit after hearing several stories about British citizens being detained for hours or turned around at the border.

As it turns out, her anxiety was all for naught. The immigration officer who greeted her at the border was welcoming and “could not have been nicer.”

“So, huge sigh of relief I breathed, but wow, can you imagine if I’m afraid, what do others think?” Amanpour added.

Her former husband then accused President Donald Trump of trying to weaponize the immigration system with his attempts to ban Harvard from accepting foreign students.

“With Donald Trump’s basically weaponization of the immigration and naturalization service to scrutinize people, to imagine that every single non-American is a threat to the United States, is a war on what our country has been since its founding,” Rubin stated.

The episode of Amanpour’s podcast premiered just a few hours before the president announced a new executive order containing travel bans for specific foreign nations. The list featured 20 countries, all of which have been identified as “very high-risk” for terrorism, high visa overstay, and a litany of other security concerns.

Some of the responses on the social media platform X were brutal.

One user said that Amanpour hasn’t “been relevant for two decades and no one under 55 has ever heard of you. Get over yourself. Thanks!”

Another said, “She’s been a democrat propagandist for decades, and she’s never been a journalist. That’s the truth.”

A third said that Amanpour should have actually gone to North Korea instead of the U.S.