Joy Reid, the former MSNBC host who was reportedly removed from the network earlier this year, re-emerged on her Substack platform this week with a blistering tirade against President Donald J. Trump.
In a video segment for her project, “Welcome to Joy’s House!,” Reid claimed that Trump was “the physical embodiment of all of America’s sins,” a line that underscored both her disdain for the president and her penchant for rhetorical overstatement.
Reid’s appearance, a conversation with writer Wajahat Ali that was later shared on his own accounts, centered less on policy and more on character attacks directed at Trump.
“People try to say God put him in the White House,” Reid said. “I don’t believe God is that cruel. But in a way, I’m thinking the way you could justify saying that: Donald Trump is the physical embodiment of all of America’s sins.” Ali promptly agreed: “Yeah, I agree completely.”
From there, Reid’s remarks became a rapid-fire denunciation of Trump’s personality and appearance. “He’s sloppy. He’s unkempt. Everything about him is false,” she charged. She mocked his hairstyle, claiming it was “a pretense of non-baldness,” and derided his age, asserting his supporters pretended “that he looks like Superman.”
Reid also revived familiar criticisms of Trump’s business record, painting him as “a terrible businessman and a failure who gets to fake success because he’s white.”
She accused banks of propping him up, alleging, “so banks keep lending him money even when he’s failing.” She added that his father “scoops money out of his siblings’ inheritance to give him when he fails.” For Reid, this translated into what she described as “white America” continually affirming Trump as a success.
Her personal attacks extended further, veering into Trump’s family life. She suggested, without evidence, that the last time First Lady Melania Trump allowed her husband to touch her was at the birth of their son, Barron. “He doesn’t believe in marriage. He doesn’t have morality. He got three baby mamas, five children. Everything about him is a lie,” she claimed.
Reid sought to discredit Trump’s appeal among Christian voters as well. “He’s not a Christian, but Christians love him. But he embodies the greed, the shamelessness, the lasciviousness of capitalism,” she said, casting his popularity in moral and cultural terms rather than acknowledging the policy positions that helped him draw broad support in 2016 and 2020.
The comments come just months after MSNBC ended Reid’s tenure at the network, a decision that drew little surprise among critics who long viewed her as emblematic of the cable outlet’s hard-left turn.
Her reliance on personal insult and race-based arguments, on full display in her Substack debut, reflected the same tone that often defined her television presence.
While Reid insists that Trump represents “sins” of America, her remarks may highlight something else: the degree to which his political resilience continues to unsettle his radical opponents, even after his presidency.
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