Former MSNBC host Joy Reid is once again under fire after a resurfaced video showed her launching into an extended tirade accusing America’s Founding Fathers of genocide, entitlement, and mass murder.
Reid claimed the United States was built by “killers” who “slaughtered 90% of the indigenous people,” accusing early Americans of exploiting native tribes before wiping them out.
“So that you know, this nation was founded by killers who slaughtered 90% of the indigenous people,” Reid said in the clip.
“Leeches who glommed off of the indigenous who taught them how to survive in the wilderness and then murdered them as their thanks and took all their land.
“And you talk about entitlement, they felt entitled to own other people, and they didn’t even want to pay taxes on it, so they decided to have a whole war with Britain.”
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The remarks resurfaced Sunday and quickly drew criticism from conservatives who said the former MSNBC personality continues to push revisionist history wrapped in inflammatory racial rhetoric.
Reid’s Recent Pattern of Outlandish Attacks
The remarks come on the heels of a series of eyebrow-raising comments Reid has made in recent weeks, particularly related to President Donald Trump, his supporters, and VP JD Vance.
In October, Redi argued that conservatives have turned the term “illegals” into “the new N-word.”
Last month, Reid doubled down on that claim while she speculated, without evidence, that Vance might abandon his “brown Hindu wife” Usha to replace her with a “white queen,” referring to Erika Kirk, the widow of slain civil-rights leader Charlie Kirk.
“They can’t have the successor to MAGA be the guy with the brown Hindu wife,” Reid said while discussing Vance possibly running for president in 2028.
“They’re also Christian nationalists.
“That ain’t gonna work,” she claimed.
“That’s why he’s throwing his wife under the bus.”
Reid went on to comment on Erika Kirk’s on-stage embrace of Vance:
“Holding on the back of his head and rubbing on his head.
“You not doing the right thing.
“You supposed to be a widow.
“You wearing leather pants! That’s not widow-wear.
“But wouldn’t it be the most perfect fairytale, MAGA fairytale, if he finally sees the light that he needs a white queen instead of this brown Hindu?
“I’m not saying that’s happening.”
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NEW: Joy Reid says "illegal" is the 'N' word for brown people, fantasizes about JD Vance leaving his wife, Usha, because she is "brown" for Erika Kirk.
"Vance has a problem in that the base of MAGA is fundamentally racist."
"They use the term illegals, which is just the N-word… pic.twitter.com/37SExiLXZ8
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 25, 2025
The remarks were widely criticized as racially charged and demeaning.
Reid Also Questioned Trump Assassination Attempt
Reid has also cast doubt on the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on President Trump, which left him bloodied on stage and killed an innocent bystander.
“He’s got these magical doctors who claimed that he was shot in the ear, but his ear, I guess, grew back?” she said in September.
“He had a Duplo bandage on one minute, no bandage the next.
“We can’t get a medical record from this alleged assassination.
“He was supposedly shot! We have nothing!”
Her dismissal of the documented attempt on the president’s life sparked outrage at the time, with critics accusing her of peddling conspiracy theories while lecturing others on misinformation.
A Consistent Pattern
Reid’s resurfaced comments about America’s founding add to a long history of incendiary rhetoric that has kept her at the center of controversy even after her ouster from MSNBC.
The former primetime host has frequently accused conservatives, Christians, and Trump supporters of racism and extremism, while critics argue she has become increasingly untethered from factual discourse.
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