Joy Reid, a prominent anchor at MSNBC, deleted her account on Elon Musk’s X platform on Thursday morning. The Post Millennial reported on this change and also shared a video in which Reid explains her decision on another platform.“Hey guys,” she told viewers in the one-minute clip. “So today I’ve done something that I’ve been meaning to do for a while,” she continued as a screen recording of her phone showed her going through the steps of deleting her account, something Reid claimed was not driven by President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
“The reason for doing it — and kissing goodbye by 1.9 million followers over there — is that I hadn’t been posting for a long time. I just didn’t want to contribute content once it was purchased by its present owner. But just having it over there, I was only holding on to it, um, because, you know, I really didn’t want someone trying to take over that name and using it for nefarious purposes, I was a little bit worried about that. And also, um, every so often I would use it to like, sort of, look at news that was trending and what’s happening and sort of use it as an aggregator. But I just realized it’s not really worth it because in order to do the news aggregation at all, you have to wade through a lot of dreck and a lot of abuse and a lot of negativity, and it’s just not worth it,” she claimed.
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Joy Reid deleted her account on X
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 14, 2024
Reid’s rant comes just over a week after the election, which she covered for the network. When Florida was called for Trump, she condemned the state as an “extreme right-wing fascist” playground for figures like Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Matt Gaetz. Reid continued her outburst on Threads, where she has been urging Americans to leave the country for the past week and posted “help me understand this” after a lighthearted moment between Trump and President Joe Biden in the Oval Office on Wednesday. “America, you had a good run,” she wrote. “I’m just gone sit over here and do my Black job while y’all figure it out.”
Earlier this week, former Fox News host Megyn Kelly shredded “racist” MSNBC host Joy Reid and predicted that she would be fired. The host made the prediction on her Sirius XM podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show,” where she said it was only a matter of time until she was axed.
“It’s a tick-tock situation until [Joy Reid] her ass is fired. There’s no way MSNBC, which is in a full meltdown now about how bad their losses were, there’s no way they can keep this woman. I realize they’re the same problem that the Democrat Party is like, [and] they have a base that they need to keep. But she and her little friend Ellie Mystal are truly the most racist people on television. And here’s her latest messaging as some groups indeed are reportedly planning some march like the Women’s March… now they’re trying to get a march ready, that’ll do it…” Kelly said before watching a meltdown by the MSNBC host aimed at white progressive women where she told them not to invite black women to their anti-Trump protests because they are done with “saving America.”
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