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4.8 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 121 minutes

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On tonight's episode of The Joy Reid Show, a tale of two Dons! One Don remains unfazed in the face of the threat of arrest levied against him by Pam Bondi. Meanwhile, the other Don... well he's continuing to wreck shop. Join us as we delve deep into both of these stories and what they mean for the future of the United States. Our guests tonight are Daniel Levy, Nana Gyamfi and Sherrilyn Ifill. GUEST SOCIALS: Daniel Levy: Substack: https://substack.com/@daniellevyzeteo Nana Gyamfi: IG: @attorneynana BAJI: IG: @instabaji Twitter: @BAJItweet Sherrilyn Ifill: Substack: https://sherrilyn.substack.com/ THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS Helix: go to helixsleep.com/JOY for 20% Off Sitewide. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout so they know we sent you Quince: Go to Quince.com/JOYREID for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, as well. ABOUT JOY REID: Joy-Ann Lomena Reid (AKA Joy Reid) is a best-selling American author, political journalist and TV host. She was a national correspondent for MSNBC and is best known for hosting the Emmy-nominated, NAACP Award-winning political commentary and analysis show, The ReidOut, from 2020 to 2025. Her previous anchoring credits include The Reid Report (2014–2015) and AM Joy (2016–2020). STAY CONNECTED WITH THE SHOW: Website: https://www.joyannreid.com Merch: https://shop.thejoyreidshow.com/ Substack: https://substack.com/@joyannreid Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Joy-Reid-Show/61576759980854/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyreidshow/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thejoyreidshow FOLLOW JOY ON SOCIAL: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joyreidofficial/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyannreid/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joyreidofficial Want to hear more of our theme song? Check out the Foodchain page on BandCamp: https://pthefoodchain.bandcamp.com/track/the-foodchain-basically-ft-jd-era ============================= Copyright Notice: This video and my YouTube channel contains content that is property of The Joy Reid Show, a production of Image Lab Media Group. You are authorized to share the video link and channel, and embed this video in your website or others as long as a link back to this YouTube Channel is provided Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.0	equal. All chats matter. Maybe that's not the best way to put it. But you know, all chats matter. We love all of our chatters. We appreciate everybody that has voted for us already for the end of ACB Image Award. We appreciate that. You still have time to vote. So we're going to remind you again at the end of the show. If you have not hit like and subscribe, now will be a great time to do that. Hitting like and subscribe is a great
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1:19.9	hit like and subscribe if you have not done that already. So just many, many thanks to everybody
1:25.0	who's here tonight. Now our theme for tonight, our theme for tonight is a tale of two dots.
1:32.5	A tale of two dots, two dons.
1:34.9	One, a popular former cable news anchor and now independent journalist.
1:39.7	The other, a rather large, physically voluminous, elderly wannabe Hitler, babbling on and on about
1:50.0	bringing about world peace, antichrist style.
1:52.8	You do know the anti-Christ said he was going to bring world peace, right?
1:55.3	While his secret police force wages a terrorism campaign across blue states, probably totally coincidentally, that Trump
2:03.6	and Republicans tend to lose in elections and that have mineral resources that Trump and his AI
2:10.4	friends would like to have. Kind of like the reason Trump wants Greenland, which he thinks is also
2:16.4	Iceland, and why Russia wants Ukraine.
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