All posts tagged "Joy Reid"

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki failed to keep a grip on Rachel Maddow's 9 p.m. MSNBC audience when the network began its revamped primetime lineup on May 6, data from Nielsen Media Research showed.

Maddow's show ran Monday through Friday during President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, then tapered off to just Mondays. Psaki filled the Tuesday through Friday slots, where she managed to lose just about half of Maddow's nightly viewers, Fox News reported.

"The Briefing with Jen Psaki" averaged 971,000 viewers throughout the month, "down from Maddow’s 1.89 million ratings this year—representing a 47 percent drop—and even worse than former time slot occupant Alex Wagner’s 1.3 million average from 2022 to January 2025, according to Nielsen ratings obtained by Fox News."...

MSNBC's Joy Reid openly laughed at former President Donald Trump's news conference boasts about his crowd sizes on Thursday — and provided photographic evidence to prove he was talking nonsense.

"It kind of helps if you take the time to actually go out and meet the voters," said Reid. "While [Kamala] Harris and [Tim] Walz have been putting in the miles, hitting multiple states this week with more to go, all Trump has done is hit the putting greens as he remained holed up at Mar-a-Lago."

Reid added: "Wasn't he the one who was complaining throughout his New York criminal trial earlier this year that all he wanted to do was be on the campaign trail? Well, today was the first time he took a break from his demanding schedule of walking around a putting green and eating McDonald's cheeseburgers to hold a press conference at his Florida estate."...

MSNBC host Joy Reid delivered a scathing verbal takedown of Republican attacks on Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris being a “DEI hire,” by calling out the real reason Donald Trump was elected president during a Wednesday night panel.

Reid began by explaining that the “DEI” diss “reveals an ugly truth,” broadly held by right-wingers slinging the attacks, “that white men, when they have a job they deserve it, and anyone but a white man was a DEI hire – meaning it was handed to them without deserving it.”

Former Republican President George W. Bush, Reid explained, “became president because his father was president,” and that Former Democratic President John F. Kennedy’s “political rise was because his father paid for it” — by bankrolling a film to boost his popularity....

Former President Donald Trump's efforts to win over Black voters are superficial, MSNBC's Joy Reid argued Monday, based on flashy promises of money and efforts to take credit for work other people have done.

This comes as Trump faces scrutiny for a campaign event in a Black church in Detroit, where nearly everyone in attendance was white.

"I call it Blaxtroturfing," said Reid. "They're trying to create this fake grassroots movement and trying to lure people in with cash ... listen to Reverend [Lorenzo] Sewell, he got on Fox and got his star turn. Here he is on Fox talking about an economic plan for the Black community."...

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) took his Republican colleagues to the woodshed Tuesday on MSNBC, over their years-long quest to tear down President Joe Biden by investigating and pushing conspiracy theories about his family.

This comes as his surviving son Hunter Biden was found guilty of improperly purchasing a firearm while addicted to drugs — and as Republicans, many of whom demanded he be prosecuted, now admit this was a silly issue to prosecute. Still others claimed there was some sort of conspiracy behind Biden allowing his own son's conviction to happen.

"You have Elise Stefanik saying the facts are clear, this was a zombie case illegally brought forward blah blah blah," said anchor Joy Reid. "They're going out of their way ... to pretend that a guilty verdict in a case that would never have been brought if his last name wasn't Biden, is a conspiracy."...

This video first aired on Nov. 14, 2023, and was replayed on Jan. 1, 2024.

The people closest to former President Donald Trump are the ones who have raised concerns about whether he’s “fully there mentally,” journalist Jonathan Karl said on MSNBC.

Karl appeared on “The Reidout” to discuss the leading conservative candidate’s capacity to return to the White House in 2025 as analyzed by his former top cabinet members. ...