Joy Reid is out — but it’s just the beginning.
In an attempt to save a network fighting for relevance and ratings, MSNBC has fired Joy Reid, host of the low-rated ReidOut. Reid was let go over the weekend; her last show is this week.
President Donald Trump, no fan of Reid’s, reacted to the news on TRUTH Social.
Trump said the leftist MSNBC should pay “vast sums of money” for the “unpardonable sin” it has done to the country — while celebrating the axing of its star host Joy Reid, whom he called a “mentally obnoxious racist.”
“Lowlife Chairman of ‘Concast,’ Brian Roberts, the owner of Ratings Challenge NBC and MSDNC, has finally gotten the nerve up to fire one of the least talented people in television, the mentally obnoxious racist, Joy Reid,” Trump wrote.
“Based on her ratings, which were virtually non-existent, she should have been ‘canned’ long ago, along with everyone else who works there,” he continued.
Reid reacted to her firing in a video shared Monday.
Joy Reid breaks down sobbing while addressing being fired from MSNBC:
“My show had value!” pic.twitter.com/T1dOabN7DT
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 24, 2025
Reid has not announced what her next steps will be.
Now, according to a report from The New York Post, MSNBC isn’t done yet.
MSNBC is also canceling shows hosted by left-wing anchors Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang, and Jonathan Capehart, The Post has learned.
From The New York Post:
Mohyeldin, Capehart and Phang will remain at the network, with the two men hosting shows in new time slots, the rep said.
The spokesperson did not provide details on when the new shows will debut.
Phang, who broadcast her show from Miami, was told her program will end as the network sunsets its South Florida-based operations, according to the network.
She will stay on as a legal correspondent.
The massive revamp comes as new president Rebecca Kutler, whose interim tag was removed this month, looks to put her stamp on the network after the exit of Rashida Jones.
Kutler canned the controversial Reid and has leaned on MSNBC’s highest-paid star Rachel Maddow to return five days a week, at least for the Trump administration’s first 100 days.
The decision has frozen out Alex Wagner, who anchored the Maddow’s primetime slot four days a week.
Kutler is “canceling two hosts that made history. Alex Wagner is first Asian-American primetime host and Joy Reid was the first black woman cable primetime host,” another MSNBC source told The Post.
“She’s tough and very corporate. Not a lot of people like her but she gets things done.”
MSNBC shows are in a ratings freewill since Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in November.
MSNBC ratings collapse:
Joy Reid – down 54.6%
Ari Melber – down 49.6%
Chris Hayes – down 47.2%
Alex Wagner – down 53.6%
Morning Joe – down 39.6%
Stephanie Ruhle – down 67%
Andrea Mitchell – down 39.7%— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 12, 2024
More over at The New York Post:
MSNBC drama intensifies as network axes shows hosted by 3 more lefty anchors in wake of Joy Reid’s ouster: sources https://t.co/MJBrpc0gBa pic.twitter.com/K6Jzg1Knzc
— New York Post (@nypost) February 24, 2025
