Pleasure Reid devoted her closing MSNBC present Monday to providing her viewers steerage on resistance, or how to answer Donald Trump’s strikes to consolidate energy in his second time period.
Reid opened the present by posing a query on the high of the hour. “If you find yourself within the midst of a disaster, and particularly a disaster of democracy, how do you resist? When fascism isn’t simply coming, it’s already right here.”
Earlier at present, MSNBC introduced its was canceling The ReidOut as a part of a schedule overhaul, and that Reid can be departing the community.
Fellow MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace and Lawrence O’Donnell joined Reid to supply their tackle the resistance, in addition to to supply some farewell messages.
“I’m bereft that The ReidOut is ending,” Maddow stated. “I type of can’t get past that. However that can be a part of what I’ve to say to the nation about this second, which is locate individuals who you respect and belief and love and make widespread trigger with them and assist your self by studying from them, and assist them by standing up for them.”
After information broke on Sunday that Reid’s present can be canceled, Trump went on a social media tirade, blasting Reid as a “mentally obnoxious racist.” That sort of response from Trump, although, revealed how a lot Reid pushed his buttons, in addition to others on the appropriate.
The community has acquired pushback amongst quite a lot of distinguished progressives for her present’s cancellation.
Reid stated in an emergency Win With Black Ladies name on Sunday that she has been by way of “each emotion, from anger, rage, disappointment, damage, feeling guilt that I let my crew lose their jobs. However ultimately, the place I actually land, and the place I’ve landed on at present is simply gratitude.” She stated that “my present had worth, and what I used to be doing had worth.” She stated that she was not sorry for presenting hard-hitting views on a variety of points, together with speaking about Donald Trump’s assault on the Structure and “speaking about Gaza and the truth that the American individuals have a proper to object to little infants being bombed.”
“I’m not sorry that I stood up for these issues as a result of these issues are of God.”
Reid launched her 7 p.m. ET present in 2020, when it changed Chris Matthews’ nightly program. The community is changing the present with one hosted by Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders Townsend and Michael Steele, who at the moment anchor the Saturday and Sunday present The Weekend. The community has emphasised that its schedule overhaul is a continuation of its progressive bent, notably in primetime.
Reid closed out her present by thanking every member of her manufacturing employees individually, whereas vowing, “We’re not going to cease.”
