Teary MSNBC anchor Joy Reid remains defiant as she breaks silence after firing: ‘I’m not sorry’

An emotional Joy Reid said she’s “not sorry” that she “went hard on so many issues” as the Donald Trump-bashing anchor broke her silence after getting fired by MSNBC.

“I’ve been through every emotion from, you know, anger, rage, disappointment … guilt … that I let my team lose their jobs,” Reid rambled during a 10-minute Zoom call to the podcast “Win With Black Women” on Sunday.

The left-wing firebrand has been criticized for her remarks about white people, including referring to “white tears,” as well as a statement that white women “did not show up” to vote for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the recent election.

MSNBC host Joy Reid was fired on Sunday, ending her five-year-old show “The ReidOut.” YouTube / Win With Black Women
MSNBC host Joy Reid was fired on Sunday, ending her five-year-old show “The ReidOut.” YouTube / Win With Black Women

Her attacks led President Trump to cheer her ouster, calling Reid a “mentally obnoxious racist.”

But Reid remained defiant on the podcast, which was watched by some 10,000 viewers.

“I’m not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those things,” Reid said as she ticked off a list of issues that her show, “The ReidOut,” regularly covered, including Black Lives Matter, Asian Americans “being targeted,” Gaza and immigrants.

“But in the end, where I really land … is just gratitude. Just pure gratitude and gratitude. Not just because people would take the time to get on a call like this or to take care of me. But also that my show had value.”

Reid was spotted wearing a fur-like coat and green baseball cap as she ducked out of her $1 million Maryland home in exclusive photos taken by The Post shortly after being fired Sunday.

Reid remained defiant during her appearance on the podcast “Win With Black Women.” YouTube / Win With Black Women
Reid remained defiant during her appearance on the podcast “Win With Black Women.” YouTube / Win With Black Women
Reid was photographed on Sunday outside her Maryland home. Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post
Reid was photographed on Sunday outside her Maryland home. Aristide Economopoulos for NY Post

Reid’s ouster was part of a broader revamp at the struggling cable station, which shuffled a number of other anchors and canceled shows hosted by Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart.

The overhaul comes as new MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler, whose interim tag was removed this month, puts her stamp on the network after the exit of Rashida Jones.

‘But in the end, where I really land… is just gratitude. Just pure gratitude and gratitude. Not just because people would take the time to get on a call like this or to take care of me. But also that my show had value.’

Reid broke down as she explained that she’s not sorry for having gone ‘hard on so many’ progressive issues like Black Lives Matter or immigrant rights on her primetime slot.

‘Whether it’s talking about any of these issues and, yes, whether it’s talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object, to have a right to object to little babies being bombed,’ Reid went on.

‘And and where I come down on that is I’m not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those those things because those things are of God.’

Joy Reid wept as she broke her silence after being fired from MSBNC

Network president Rebecca Kutler revealed MSNBC has not heard from Reid while addressing staffers of The Reid Out on Sunday weekend following the cancelation, Status News reported.

‘We are waiting to get a response from Joy and her team about how she would like to handle that, and we want to defer to her on that,’ Kutler told staff about a final episode for The Reid Out.

MSNBC boss Rebecca Kutler summoned Reid's staff for a meeting on Sunday that quickly grew 'tense and emotional'

MSNBC boss Rebecca Kutler summoned Reid’s staff for a meeting on Sunday that quickly grew ‘tense and emotional’

‘The hope is that we will have a final show with Joy.’

The Reid Out was canceled amid tanking ratings – a decision leaked early Sunday and confirmed by her bosses just hours later.

Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin have also reportedly been given the boot from their current timeslots, the New York Post reported.

Fellow NBCU asset NBC News further confirmed Monday that Lester Holt was also leaving his iconic Nightly News gig.

Sunday’s meeting quickly grew ‘tense and emotional’, according to Status News, after The Reid Out was dumped because of poor ratings.

During the meeting, some of the angry employees demanded answers about why the show was cancelled and what it meant for their futures at MSNBC.

Kutler insisted Donald Trump was not a factor in the decision and the network’s changes were made based on ‘data analysis and programming strategy” that she believes will “best position MNSBC for the year ahead.’

She said the show’s cancellation was part of a ‘broader slate of programming changes that will be laid out’ on Monday.

The show’s staffers reportedly expressed ‘frustration and disbelief’ that they learned of the show’s fate through media reports and not the network’s leadership.

Kutler confirmed the show’s staff has been terminated but will be paid until April and receive severance.

MSNBC star Phang
MSNBC host Capehart
MSNBC's Mohyeldin

Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin have also been given the boot from their current timeslots, according to the New York Post – who obtained the insight from a source named as an ‘MSNBC insider’

Fellow NBCU asset NBC News further confirmed Monday that Lester Holt was also leaving his iconic Nightly News gig

Fellow NBCU asset NBC News further confirmed Monday that Lester Holt was also leaving his iconic Nightly News gig

Reid is among MSNBC’s highest profile faces and is known for her hard left takes on social and political issues.

The show’s 7pm ET time slot will be replaced by a panel show co-hosted by Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele.

Amid a looming landscape of languishing cable and legacy news stations, MSNBC had their lowest-rated January in history in the highly sought 25-54 demographic.

The statistic holds importance to advertisers due to the group’s spending power and the fact that it pertains to both daytime and primetime.

During the hours of 8-11 p.m. ET, MSNBC barely managed an audience of 734,000, with CNN securing just 522,000.

This all occurred during a hectic news cycle that featured coverage of Justin Trudeau’s resignation, Trump’s inauguration and the controversy surrounding the president’s parade of appointments and pardons.

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Talking heads ranging from Jake Tapper to Joy Reid failed to stop the bleeding – as did a move from MSNBC that brought back Rachel Maddow to TV sets five times a week, at least for the first 100 days of the new administration.

MSNBC lagged to just 45,000 viewers during the day and just 63,000 during the peak hours of night – with the Maddow experiment seemingly failing.

In terms of percentages, though, the figures were even more alarming; MSNBC essentially lost nearly half of its 25-54 audience since this time last year, continuing a 65 percent slide seen since the election.

In primetime, the network’s numbers are down 41 percent from 2024. When it came to programming delivered during the day, the percentage dip was the same.

Given the timing and recent events surrounding, the new Nielsen numbers appear to show that relationship continuing in spades, with Fox seemingly set to widen that gap even more.