Christiane Amanpour, CNN's top foreign correspondent and an anchor for the network's international arm, said President Trump's comments against the news media are emboldening dictators abroad who would want to crack down on press freedom.

"We’re used to danger,” Amanpour told the New York Times in a report published Monday night. “But we don’t need to be stabbed in the back by our free and democratic leadership.”

Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Trump was on a social media tear against news outlet, with a specific mention of CNN International, which he said "represent[s] our Nation to the WORLD very poorly."

Many in the news business said Trump's comments showed a lack of appreciation for dangerous areas, including war zones around the globe, that journalists enter to cover their stories.