Joy Reid claims America was ‘built on mediocre white men’ in tirade against Trump and his allies

WASHINGTON, DC: Former MSNBC host Joy Reid tore into President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other white conservatives during a podcast rant Monday, claiming America was “built on mediocre white men.”

Reid made the remarks while speaking with liberal commentator Wajahat Ali on her podcast, where the pair discussed race, meritocracy, and the Trump administration.

Joy Reid unloads on ‘mediocre’ white men

“This is what America was built on, telling these weak-chinned, unaccomplished mediocrities that meritocracy means they get everything they want,” Reid said during the episode, which she later shared online.

She argued that conservatives are “literally hypnotizing mediocre people to think that they are meritocratic geniuses and telling highly-accomplished brown, black, and Asian people, ‘You earned nothing that you have, everything you have was given to you by these same mediocre people.’”

Reid also claimed there is now a “deficit of white men even trying to go to college now, because they’re telling them you don’t have to do s**t." 

Ali piled on early in the conversation, accusing America of “coddling” white men and describing them as “these weak, pathetic, fragile, brittle porcelain teacups.”

“They can dish it, but they can’t take it,” he said. “They demand safe spaces for themselves, no safe spaces for anyone else. They demand civility, but give only cruelty.”

“These dumba** mediocre men purged all the women and people of color for their bros," Ali added later in the discussion.

Trump, Pete Hegseth, and RFK Jr. targeted

Reid also used the podcast to blast Trump’s Cabinet picks, arguing the President surrounds himself with “below-average” people.

“Donald Trump is not qualified to be president of the United States,” she said, while alleging Trump’s father helped him gain admission to the Wharton School.

She also predicted Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would fail in his role and mocked Hegseth, claiming he became Defense Secretary simply “because you’re a white guy who Donald Trump thinks is attractive.”

Reid further criticized Hegseth over the firing of several four-star military generals, claiming the administration’s message was that “If they’re black, they didn’t earn it.”

The White House didn't waste time firing back at Reid's unfounded claims.

White House spokesman Davis Ingle quipped to Fox News, “There’s a reason Joy Reid’s show got canceled — her takes were too dumb even for MSDNC. I lose brain cells every time I have the displeasure of hearing her speak.”

Joy Reid defended her record after MSNBC exit

Reid’s MSNBC program, The ReidOut, was notably canceled last year following sagging ratings, ending her run at the network in a rather abrupt fashion.

But Reid has continued defending both her rhetoric and her progressive political commentary since leaving cable news behind.

“Where I come down on that is I’m not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those, those things because those things are of God,” she said in a tearful interview after the cancellation.

Since departing MSNBC, Reid has continued sharing hot takes through her podcast, The Joy Reid Show.

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