Former MSNBC hatemonger Joy Reid revealed this week that her bosses at the network begged her to stay off social media in the days preceding her late February termination.
Speaking with Katie Couric on her new podcast, “The Joy Reid Show,” Reid said her bosses were “horrified” by her social media posts, particularly her X posts.
“Anytime I would tweet anything, I would get calls—I would get, ‘Please get off Twitter, we hate it,'” she said. “They just don’t like that it pulls their talent and their reporters out of their control because now you’re not running what you’re tweeting through Standards and Practices.”
“It’s giving your personality directly to the audience, which they don’t like because it’s no longer managed and curated by them,” she added.
“The bosses were horrified.” Joy Reid reveals MSNBC tried to silence her online before they fired her. pic.twitter.com/OMavyQADA2
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) June 3, 2025
The remarks were made during a preview of Reid’s new show, which will launch on YouTube next Monday.
Later in the preview, Couric asked Reid what “really happened” when she was fired from MSNBC and “The ReidOut” was canceled.
“I’ve been asked this so many times,” she replied. “And people think that I’m just saying it to B.S., but I’m being honest with you—I don’t know. Literally, Katie, my show, ‘The Readout,’ my wonderful team and I, we won an NAACP Image Award in late January, and within less than a month from that, they canceled our show.”
“Two weeks before I was canceled, we were emailing back and forth with the PR department about praising our win for the NAACP Image Award, you know? And actually, it wasn’t even in January. It was in February. It was, like, two weeks after we won the award, it came out and we were completely blindsided,” she added.
Evidently, Reid thought that an award from the NAACP, which is a blatantly racist organization, would mean something. Worse, she genuinely seems to still believe that her horrible ratings had nothing to do with her show’s cancellation.
“It wasn’t ratings because we had just had a ratings meeting a couple of weeks before that talking about the fact that our show… other than Rachel Maddow, we were down the least [in ratings]” after President Donald Trump’s election, she said.
“We were just told that we were doing… that we were holding on pretty well. And then, you know, it’s not like the ratings have gotten better since I’ve been gone,” she added.
It’s true that MSNBC’s ratings have only crashed further since her termination.
(Video Credit: The Joy Reid Show)
Reid also complained about the way she was fired.
“I wasn’t told ‘The ratings were terrible,’ ‘It’s something you did,’ ‘You tweeted a terrible thing,’” she whined.
Concluding her remarks, she lent credence to the theory by her deluded fans that she was fired for bashing President Trump. FYI, EVERYBODY at MSNBC bashes Trump.
“I’m a black woman doing the thing, you know what I mean?” she said. “I think that there’s a difference for Trump in hearing the kinds of criticisms, specifically, out of a black woman. It bothers him in a way it doesn’t bother him like anything else. He’s got this sort of tick about race, you know, and about, sort of criticism coming specifically from a black woman because we’ve seen him lay out and dish out real abuse against black women journalists.”
“I did a specific thing, which was, I tried to constantly unpack the racial history of the country, which is very much against the sort of Project 2025 thing. And it’s something I can do in a certain capacity because of my background, because not only am I a black woman, but I come from immigrant parents who come from what Donald Trump would consider s—hole countries, but that have a take on race that is different,” she added.
Responding to her remarks, some critics said, “Good riddance.”
To hell with Joyless Reid! She shouldn’t have been given that 7PM timeslot in the 1st place. She had a daytime show & that failed. She got a 2nd chance after MSNBC gave her another show on the weekends. Joyless failed upwards & I say good riddance!
— Charles 91771 (@C91771) June 4, 2025
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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