Joy Reid hosts all-star panel of liberal losers and takes a final dig at Trump during sappy final MSNBC show
Joy Reid held a summit with her fellow MSNBC anchors and warned her liberal audience that ‘fascism isn’t just coming, it’s already here’ in a sappy final broadcast after she was fired by the network.
On Sunday, Reid wept as she broke her silence after being fired from the network on a podcast.
The ultra-liberal pundit clarified that she is ‘not sorry’ despite the cancellation of The Reid Out as MSNBC looks to restructure its programming.
Reid was more composed on her final broadcast Monday but made sure to equate Trumpism with fascism before gathering what she called her ‘superfriends’ of fellow anchors for the low-rated liberal network.
She held a summit with Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Nicole Wallace, all of whom praised Reid and expressed how sad they were that the show was ending but refused to criticize their bosses.
‘I love you Joy and I am bereft that the ReidOut is ending. I can’t get beyond that,’ the network’s star said from a Zoom camera.
Reid returned the praise and perhaps suggested Maddow had fought for her to stay with the network’s lineup.
‘No one fights harder for us in this company than Rachel Maddow,’ she said.
Joy Reid held a summit with her fellow MSNBC anchors and warned her liberal audience that ‘fascism isn’t just coming, it’s already here’ in a sappy final broadcast after she was fired by the network
She held a summit with Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Nicole Wallace, all of whom praised Reid and expressed how sad they were that the show was ending but refused to criticize their bosses
Nicole Wallace came the closest to dig at MSNBC when she said that she felt ‘despair’ at Reid’s cancelation and that ‘despair is the autocrat’s tool.’
‘I love you, the happiest times I’ve had ever being on television have been sitting next to the two of you and that I thought things like that on TV couldn’t be real but the friendships that have sustained me have been with both of you. It feels like losing a limb,’ she added.
O’Donnell added a simple message: ‘Thank you Joy, for everything you’ve taught us.’
‘I have more to learn from you, I plan on haunting you for the rest of your days,’ quipped Reid, who then joked about her fascination with ghosts.
The theme of the entire show was to show her viewers how to ‘fight back, never stop resisting’ in her show’s absence.
‘Fascism isn’t just coming, it’s already here,’ Reid said.
‘You don’t always win every battle but the whole thing is about resisting.’
She spent the show criticizing Elon Musk’s infamous DOGE email and the cuts made to the civil service.
Joy Reid wept as she broke her silence after being fired from MSBNC
‘Tonight, on our final Reid Out, we are going to talk about what people are actually doing to resist this.’
Reid ended her show by thanking her staff and employees, saying: ‘The ReidOut worked because everyone put their whole heart into it.’
The entire staff was seen on camera, waiving goodbye as Reid finished the show and handed off to Jen Psaki.
‘I wanna thank [Joy] because she’s done amazing work, she tells stories no one tells. But also for the person that she is,’ added Psaki, a former White House Press Secretary who has since attached on to the network.
On Sunday, Reid told the Win With Black Women podcast that she was furious but had no regrets.
‘I’ve been through every emotion… anger, rage, disappointment, hurt… guilt. You know, [ a feeling] that I let my team lose their jobs,’ Reid said during a Zoom conversation with the Win With Black Women podcast.
‘But in the end, where I really land… is just gratitude. Just pure gratitude and gratitude. Not just because people would take the time to get on a call like this or to take care of me. But also that my show had value.’
Reid broke down as she explained that she’s not sorry for having gone ‘hard on so many’ progressive issues like Black Lives Matter or immigrant rights on her primetime slot.
Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin have also been given the boot from their current timeslots, according to the New York Post – who obtained the insight from a source named as an ‘MSNBC insider’
‘Whether it’s talking about any of these issues and, yes, whether it’s talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object, to have a right to object to little babies being bombed,’ Reid went on.
‘And and where I come down on that is I’m not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those those things because those things are of God.’
The Reid Out was canceled amid tanking ratings – a decision leaked early Sunday and confirmed by her bosses just hours later.
Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin have also reportedly been given the boot from their current timeslots, the New York Post reported.
Fellow NBCU asset NBC News further confirmed Monday that Lester Holt was also leaving his iconic Nightly News gig.
Sunday’s meeting quickly grew ‘tense and emotional’, according to Status News, after The Reid Out was dumped because of poor ratings.
During the meeting, some of the angry employees demanded answers about why the show was cancelled and what it meant for their futures at MSNBC.
Kutler insisted Donald Trump was not a factor in the decision and the network’s changes were made based on ‘data analysis and programming strategy” that she believes will “best position MNSBC for the year ahead.’
She said the show’s cancellation was part of a ‘broader slate of programming changes that will be laid out’ on Monday.
The show’s staffers reportedly expressed ‘frustration and disbelief’ that they learned of the show’s fate through media reports and not the network’s leadership.
Kutler confirmed the show’s staff has been terminated but will be paid until April and receive severance.
Reid is among MSNBC’s highest profile faces and is known for her hard left takes on social and political issues.
The show’s 7pm ET time slot will be replaced by a panel show co-hosted by Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele.
Amid a looming landscape of languishing cable and legacy news stations, MSNBC had their lowest-rated January in history in the highly sought 25-54 demographic.
The statistic holds importance to advertisers due to the group’s spending power and the fact that it pertains to both daytime and primetime.
During the hours of 8-11 p.m. ET, MSNBC barely managed an audience of 734,000, with CNN securing just 522,000.
This all occurred during a hectic news cycle that featured coverage of Justin Trudeau’s resignation, Trump’s inauguration and the controversy surrounding the president’s parade of appointments and pardons.
Talking heads ranging from Jake Tapper to Joy Reid failed to stop the bleeding – as did a move from MSNBC that brought back Rachel Maddow to TV sets five times a week, at least for the first 100 days of the new administration.
MSNBC lagged to just 45,000 viewers during the day and just 63,000 during the peak hours of night – with the Maddow experiment seemingly failing.
In terms of percentages, though, the figures were even more alarming; MSNBC essentially lost nearly half of its 25-54 audience since this time last year, continuing a 65 percent slide seen since the election.
In primetime, the network’s numbers are down 41 percent from 2024. When it came to programming delivered during the day, the percentage dip was the same.
Given the timing and recent events surrounding, the new Nielsen numbers appear to show that relationship continuing in spades, with Fox seemingly set to widen that gap even more.
