In a horrifying story this week, the mother of NBC News and Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie has gone missing, and law enforcement is treating it as a kidnapping. Per the Today website, Nancy Guthrie was last seen on January 31 in Arizona.
“We believe she was taken out of the home against her will, and that’s how this investigation is moving,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said at a news conference this week.
“We are following all leads we have, that’s all I can tell you,” The sheriff added. “We’ve gotten hundreds of leads.”
When asked about this on Tuesday, President Donald Trump addressed the issue, as reported by The Daily Mail.
Trump said the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, was “terrible” and revealed he plans to call the news anchor. https://t.co/c628cGnsVQ
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) February 3, 2026
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‘I think it’s terrible,” the president told reporters. ‘I’m going to call her later on,’ he said of Guthrie. ‘I think it’s a terrible thing. I always got along very good with Savannah.”
In October of 2020, during that year’s presidential campaign, Guthrie hosted a town hall with Trump.
As The Guardian reported at the time, Guthrie was praised for aggressively questioning the president.
“Guthrie, a co-host of NBC’s Today morning show, repeatedly got the better of Trump as she pressed the president on his debts, his actions on coronavirus, and the dangerous rightwing conspiracy theory QAnon,” the Guardian reported in 2020. “Trump was at times clearly uncomfortable, and his campaign attacked Guthrie less than an hour after the event finished, suggesting Guthrie had filled the role of “Joe Biden surrogate. The criticism from the Trump campaign only served to prove that this was a nightmare scenario for the president, who has restricted himself to rightwing media in recent weeks.”
“You’re the President! You’re not someone’s crazy uncle who can retweet whatever.” Savannah Guthrie used her skills as a former litigator to interrogate President Trump during NBC’s town hall. https://t.co/F2bO9wjWJS pic.twitter.com/i8semU7q3G
— CNN (@CNN) October 16, 2020
However, Guthrie doesn’t seem to have ever joined the list of media figures, like George Stephanopoulos or Don Lemon, who Trump has considered a long-term enemy. For one thing, he has never at any point sued her.
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