Joy Reid floats speculation that her race, 'anxiety' surrounding Trump played role in MSNBC firing

Ex-MSNBC big Joy Reid spoke retired astir her amusement being canceled connected Monday, speculating that her contention and web "anxiety" surrounding President Donald Trump played a relation successful her yet being fired from the wide network. 

"I effort not to speculate excessively overmuch publically because, again, I can't get wrong the minds of different people. But I tin archer you what different radical person speculated about… There are tons of radical astatine the web who are captious of Donald Trump. I mean, and they're inactive captious of him, I'm assuming, you know. So I don't deliberation that's [it], but I bash cognize determination is simply a batch of anxiousness some determination and, I think, successful each media. We're seeing it astatine CBS," she said, referring to Trump's suit against the web implicit a "60 Minutes" interrogation with erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Reid spoke with Katie Couric successful a video posted connected her Substack leafage and connected her YouTube channel. Reid's MSNBC amusement was canceled earlier this year. 

"We're seeing it astatine ABC, wherever allegedly ‘The View’ hosts were told not to spell truthful hard connected Trump. There's a propulsion for radical to, hey, bash little Trump. Do much entertainment. Don't beryllium hard connected him," the erstwhile MSNBC big said, noting reporting that ABC's "The View" hosts were told to code down their governmental discussions.

Joy Reid speaks during the 2024 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture™ Presented By Coca-Cola® astatine Ernest N. Morial Convention Center connected July 07, 2024 successful New Orleans, Louisiana.  ((Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for ESSENCE))

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Couric pointed retired that determination was nary quality betwixt Reid and wide hosts Nicolle Wallace oregon Rachel Maddow, to which Reid responded, "only successful 1 mode was I different. I'm a Black pistillate doing the thing."

"I deliberation that determination is simply a quality for Trump successful proceeding the kinds of criticisms specifically retired of a Black woman, it bothers him successful a mode it doesn't fuss him similar thing else. He's got this benignant of tick astir race, you know, and about, benignant of disapproval coming specifically from a Black pistillate due to the fact that we've seen him laic retired and crockery retired existent maltreatment against Black women journalists," Reid said during her speech with Couric.

"I did a circumstantial thing, which was, I tried to perpetually unpack the radical past of the country, which is precise overmuch against the benignant of Project 2025 thing. And it's thing I tin bash successful a definite capableness due to the fact that of my background, due to the fact that not lone americium I a Black woman, but I travel from migrant parents who travel from what Donald Trump would see s---hole countries, but that person a instrumentality connected contention that is different," Reid continued.

Chris Hayes, Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Ari Melber successful Studio 3A astatine Rockefeller Center connected Tuesday, November 8, 2022. ((Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/MSNBC via Getty Images))

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Reid's amusement was replaced with "The WeekNight", an ensemble programme featuring erstwhile Kamala Harris spokesperson Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez, the girl of disgraced erstwhile New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, and Michael Steele, the erstwhile Republican National Committee seat who present staunchly opposes the GOP.

MSNBC's caller lineup has struggled successful its archetypal month, with Psaki shedding fractional the assemblage her predecessors averaged successful the aforesaid timeslot, and with its different caller programming struggling to pull viewers.

MSNBC and ABC's "The View" did not instantly instrumentality requests for comment. 

Reid said anterior to her show's cancellation, she was told that her amusement was "down less" successful ratings than immoderate different MSNBC show, speech from Maddow's. Reid and her erstwhile primetime colleagues faced a major ratings decline aft Trump won the election. 

MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace connected MSNBC. (MSNBC)

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Her show, "The Reidout," shed 47% of its full audience, averaging conscionable 759,000 viewers aft averaging 1.4 cardinal viewers passim 2024 starring up to Election Day,

"Our amusement was down little than immoderate different primetime show. We were down, different than Rachel Maddow, we were down the least. So we were conscionable told that we were holding connected beauteous well. And, you know, it's not similar the ratings person gotten amended since I've been gone. So I tin archer you, honestly, I adjacent had my exit interrogation and nary 1 has told maine wherefore I was fired. I person nary idea," she said.

Reid said MSNBC's reasoning was "scripted" and "perfunctory," and explained that she had started being cautious connected societal media. 

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"We were being precise careful, and I was trying to beryllium much cautious astir thing connected societal media, due to the fact that I cognize determination was a existent anxiousness astir societal media, precise overmuch an anxiousness astir thing connected societal media," she said. "I don't know, I genuinely was not told."

Fox News' Joseph Wulfsohn and Brian Flood contributed to this report.