Joy Reid made MSNBC history when she became the host of The ReidOut in 2020, taking over the 7:00 p.m. time slot previously held by Hardball for 23 years. However, the show is now being removed from the network’s primetime lineup, as reported by multiple outlets in February 2025.
With the news of these changes, find out more about her below.
Reid hosted the political weekend morning talk show on MSNBC since May 2016 and frequently filled in for other network hosts like Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow. In 2018, her morning show averaged nearly one million weekly viewers, with loyal fans on social media calling themselves #reiders. The child of immigrants, Reid rose to prominence as a vocal critic of President Donald Trump and became known for her no-nonsense interviews with his surrogates.
““Our prime directive is to constantly remind people that this is not normal and not to allow it to become mundane,” Reid told The New York Times in 2018. “We feel like one of our duties is to keep that story top of mind because it’s fundamentally about whether we truly choose our own leaders.”
After Trump’s 2024 election victory, she lashed out at “right-wingers” during the Thanksgiving holiday, telling The New York Post, “Make your own dinner, MAGA.”
“But if you expect the 73 million who voted for the prosecutor, not the felon and particularly the 92 percent of Black women who voted for Kamala to give you a cookie for your vote, a trophy, a hug, a high-five, you might be asking too much,” she said at the time. “If we want to eat with you, we will. But if we want some peace over the holidays and we don’t want to put up with your trolling while we eat our Tofurky, get over it.”
Veteran Hardball anchor Chris Matthews abruptly resigned from the network, on-air, in March 2020. Matthews was forced out after a series of on-air gaffes, including comparing the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish, to the Nazi invasion of France during World War II.
