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The Joy Reid Show

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4.8 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 121 minutes

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On tonight's episode of The Joy Reid Show, we discuss a shocking and completely unexpected piece of news... Donald trump... is racist?! Our hater in chief recently made a disturbing post depicting former President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. Classy. Meanwhile the Black mayors of Chicago and Oakland are continuing to push back against ICE's rampage through our cities. Our guests tonight are Wajahat Ali, Tim Wise, Robert Jones, Karen Attiah, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Mayor Barbara Lee. GUEST SOCIALS: Wajahat Ali: X: @WajahatAli IG: @intawajahat Substack: The Left Hook (https://thelefthook.substack.com/) Tim Wise: IG: @timwiseofficial Bluesky: @timjacobwise Robert Jones: Substack: White Too Long (https://www.whitetoolong.net/) Karen Attiah: IG & X: @KarenAttiah Bluesky: @karenattiah.bsky.social Substack: The Golden Hour by Karen Attiah (https://karenattiah.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips) THANK YOU TO UR SPONSORS: MSI United States: Go to MSIUnitedStates.org Or text "REID" to 511-51. A gift of $26 is enough to give 4 women contraception for one year. 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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0:34.3	A good. perspective. The economist know which way is up. Well, hello, everyone. Welcome to the Joy Reid show. Happy Friday, everyone, to everybody except Donald Trump. Everybody else, happy Friday. Thank you all for tuning in, whether you're tuning in on YouTube. Hello, YouTubers. I see y'all are already in there, including our wonderful lemon heads who are all in the place, always jumping in real early and first, jumping in and speaking also, big up to everybody that's tuning in on substack as well as our Facebookies, hello Facebookies, and our Twitchies.
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1:10.6	Even as the country goes absolutely insane. So happy Black History Month. And thank you all again
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1:29.7	So thank you to everybody who's supporting us. This is just on YouTube. We're also over 2.
1:34.4	We're also over 200,000 on substacks. So our substack family is growing fast.
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1:43.9	together. We're almost a million strong. If you put it all together. You just put us all together. I just want to say good. Then family, how you guys? Enjoy the show. Jason is in the house. He is in his laboratory. We've got a lot to talk about you guys because, of course, Donald Trump has decided to celebrate Black History Month by becoming as racistly, openly racist as possible.
2:01.9	So I want to read you guys a really great Black History Month quote, courtesy of one of Jason and my oldest and dearest friends who happens to be a public school teacher in the Bronx.
2:10.2	And the quote is from W.E.B. Du Bois. And I quote, either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
2:21.0	And that is where we begin this evening.
2:23.9	So here is what the post that Donald Trump put on his truth social tool T-Moo Twitter
2:31.3	looked like at 1140 a.m. A.m. yesterday.
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