Joy Reid Has Explosive Two-Word Retort For Trump VP Vance Seconds After Hearing His Attack On Her

Like, f–k you, forever!

Mediaite
Fri, October 3, 2025




Independent media host Joy Reid had an explosive retort for Trump Vice President JD Vance seconds after learning, for the first time, of his recent attack on her as contemptuous and ungrateful to America.

Vance posted a message to Reid this week over a video clip in which she discussed her mother’s experience as an immigrant, and wrote that she should show more “gratitude”:

Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It’s been overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most. Yet she oozes with contempt.

My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you’d be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude

In a Substack interview Thursday, Reid — who left the X/Twitter platform years ago — revealed that even after a full day had passed, she still hadn’t heard about the message from the vice president.

Seconds after hearing it for the first time, Reid had a two-word message of her own for the VP she went on to call a “racist a**hole”:


TOMMY CHRISTOPHER: “You’d be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude.”

That’s him talking right to you.

JOY-ANN REID: So I will start by saying, JD Vance, since you’re paying attention to me: F–k you!

TOMMY CHRISTOPHER: Whoa!

JOY-ANN REID: And I say that on behalf of every Black woman who heard you call Kamala Devi Harris “the trash.”

You calling a woman whose mother came to this country to do cancer research and to try to cure cancer. Who lost her mother not that many years ago, whose mother is the same exact racial identity as your wife.

The fact that you would stand in front of a crowd of mainly White MAGAs and call that woman who was the vice president of the United States, the highest elected female politician, political official in our nation’s history, call her “the trash” four days before the election?

Like, f–k you, forever!

There’s nothing you could ever say that I would take as advice, friendly or otherwise. I don’t need advice from you. You need to learn how to be a decent human being and you need to apologize to Kamala Harris for what you said. So let’s start with that.

The second thing is: JD Vance, I did not say that my mother said this country was not a land of opportunity for people like us. You need go back and listen to the interview.

What I probably said, I would have to pull up the interview, but what I will say again is that my mother came to this country as an immigrant. And believed in the sales pitch of what America says that it is, that it calls itself this sort of land of opportunity.

But what happens is if you are Black, you immediately come here and it isn’t long before you are treated the same way that America treats all of its Black citizens, as second class citizens, as people who need to, quote unquote, be grateful for White people apparently giving them opportunity.

See, in your statement, you forget the part that you believe for yourself, that White people earn their opportunities, that they create opportunity, that when they get a good job or get a big house or get a good salary, it’s because they earned it.

You, because you are a racist a–hole, believe that Black people are given opportunity by White people.

So you can’t accept that my mother, who became a PhD holding college professor, earned her opportunity to be a professor.

You think that someone White gave her that opportunity or that she stole it from, or, you know, Charlie Kirk’s version is she stole from somebody White.

Watch above via the Tommy Christopher Substack interview series.

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Joy Reid launches profane tirade against JD Vance over veep’s advice to be grateful to the US

TWO WORDS DO NOT A TIRADE MAKE

Taylor Herzlich
Fri, October 3, 2025 





Ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid went on a profanity-laced tirade against Vice President JD Vance, dropping the F-bomb and calling the veep a “racist a–hole.”

“JD Vance, since you’re paying attention to me: F— you!” she raved during an interview published Thursday.

The rant, delivered on writer Tommy Christopher’s Substack, came after Vance took to X on Thursday morning to urge Reid to be grateful for her success.

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid (right) unleashed on Vice President JD Vance during a Substack interview. Mediaite

“Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It’s been overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most. Yet she oozes with contempt,” he wrote in a post that got more than 3 million views.

“My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you’d be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude,” Vance concluded.

He was commenting on a clip of a past Reid interview in which she talked about her mother’s migration from Guyana to the US.

“My mother got the rude awakening like, ‘Oh, it’s racist here’… She was like, ‘They didn’t tell me this was the land of opportunity, but not for me,’” Reid said with a laugh.

On Thursday, she said she hadn’t “learned of JD Vance’s diss track” about her until Christopher told her – but she quickly doubled down on her response.

“I say that on behalf of every black woman who heard you call Kamala Devi Harris ‘the trash,’” Reid said, alluding to a November campaign speech by Vance.

Vice President JD Vance called out Joy Reid in a social media post Thursday morning. Xinhua/Shutterstock

She capped her lengthy diatribe by saying, “Like, f— you forever!” to the man who’s first in the line of succession for the presidency.

The former MSNBC host – who was ousted in February after more than a decade at the lefty cable news network – continued to blast Vance as she shared her take on the experience of black immigrants to the US.

“You, because you are a racist a–hole, believe that black people are given opportunity by white people,” Reid fumed.

Reid was ousted from MSNBC in February and now hosts her own podcast. Getty Images for Congressional Black Caucus Foundation

“So you can’t accept that my mother, who became a PhD-holding college professor, earned her opportunity to be a professor,” she continued.

“You think that someone white gave her that opportunity or… you know — Charlie Kirk’s version is she stole from somebody white,” Reid said, adding a dig at the young conservative activist whose assassination stunned the nation last month.


JD Vance Keeps Demanding Certain People Show 'Gratitude' — And We Bet You Know What They Have In Common

Brittany Wong
Fri, October 3, 2025 


Vice President JD Vance wants people to show more gratitude. Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images

President Donald Trump may have tasked his second-in-command JD Vance with selling the rebrand of the GOP’s tax law, but what the vice president is really concerned with is gratitude.

More specifically, he’s fixated on people who he believes are insufficiently grateful for what the United States has provided for them.

Take, for instance, former Vice President Kamala Harris. She wasn’t fit to lead the country, Vance said on the campaign trail, because she wasn’t “grateful for it.”

Vance famously clashed with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office in February over the Ukrainian leader’s failure to grovel to Trump for all the aid the U.S. had provided Zelenskyy’s country during its ongoing war against Russia.

“Have you ever said ‘thank you’ once?” the VP said.

Months later, the vice president complained to Fox News host Will Cain that the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City, Zohran Mamdani, wasn’t sufficiently sycophantic.

“Does Mamdani, when you hear him speak, is this a man who feels gratitude for the United States of America?” Vance asked Cain. “Is this a man who feels grateful for all of the opportunities, the incredible bounty of this country?”

Now, Vance has found a new target for insufficient gratitude: MSNBC host (and frequent Trump administration critic) Joy Reid.

On Thursday, Vance reshared a post from the account “End Wokeness” on X, featuring a video of Reid and progressive writer Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation at Xavier College last year. In the clip, Reid spoke about how her immigrant mother came to realize that life in the U.S. would be more challenging than she initially expected.

“When my mother came from Guyana she realized it is not a land of opportunity for people like us,” she said during the talk.

In his retweet, Vance again shouted about ingratitude.

“Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country,” he wrote, “It’s been overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most. Yet she oozes with contempt.”

“My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you’d be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude,” he concluded.

Vice President JD Vance think MSNBC host (and frequent Trump administration critic) Joy Reid needs to be more grateful for what America has provided her with. Leon Bennett/Getty Images for ESSENCE/Henry Nicholls/Getty ImagesMore

When Vance labels someone an ingrate, it’s almost always a person of color: Harris and Reid are Black women. (Asian and Black in Harris’ case.) Mamdani, a rising star in the Democratic Party, was born and raised in Kampala, Uganda, before moving to New York City with his family at the age of 7. The exception is Zelenskyy, though the Ukrainian leader is, of course, a foreigner.

The racial implications of Vance’s language aren’t lost on Efrén Pérez, a professor of political science and psychology at UCLA.

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Though Vance is far less overt than Trump ― the latter has a bad, bigoted habit of calling women of color like Harris and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) “low IQ” ― race still factors in, Pérez said.

“I doubt that the vice president knows about the science behind this, but his singling out of POC, including foreigners, aligns neatly with a prejudiced explanation,” the professor told HuffPost. “These are flat-out racist actions and comments directed at very specific people because by highlighting them, he taps into some people’s prejudiced thinking.”

The stereotype of the “ungrateful” or “always complaining” person of color is obviously harmful. In politics, it’s used to delegitimize the struggles and valid criticisms of marginalized communities.

“It’s consistent with a highly moralistic view of non-white others in this country as ’undeserving,” Pérez said.

Now that Trump is in office a second time, Vance and his followers feel emboldened to fight politically for what they believe in, including the belief that America's minority groups have a victim complex and need to be more grateful. Alex Wong via Getty ImagesMore

Vance’s grievances tap into a greater anxiety among some white Americans, too, Pérez said: that they’re being replaced by minorities.

Up until around 2000, the average white person in the U.S. was fairly comfortable in their position as the demographic majority. They wielded most of the political power.

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But there’s been a noticeable increase in people of color ― Blacks, Latinos, Asian-Americans and others ― reaching nearly 40% of the U.S. population. For some white Americans, anxieties about the country’s demographic shift toward a majority-minority population became more pronounced during Barack Obama’s presidency.

“For many whites, it felt like they were losing ‘their country,’ which is another way of saying, ‘Me and my group are no longer at the top of the racial pecking order in the U.S,’” Pérez said. “This explains the types of white backlash that facilitated Donald Trump’s rise in 2016 and 2024.”


Now that Trump is in office a second time, Vance and his followers feel seasoned and emboldened to fight politically for what they believe in, including the belief that America’s minority groups have a victim complex and need to be more grateful. (It’s ironic that they do so while relying heavily on white grievance, aimed at mobilizing white voters who now perceive themselves to be “last place” in the racial status hierarchy.)

The fact that Vance rarely, if ever, has directed such “you’re not grateful enough” criticism to white Americans is very telling, Pérez said.

There’s some American exceptionalism at play here, too, said Todd Belt, professor and political management program director at the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University.

There’s a strand of foreign policy conservatism that has long been associated with the idea that the United States is exceptional and beyond reproach. In their eyes, the U.S. is the world’s peacekeeper, and others have for too long taken advantage of that, Belt said.

Vance famously clashed with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office in February over the Ukranian leader’s failure to say “thank you” to President Trump for the aid the U.S. provided Zelenskyy's country during its ongoing war against Russia. “Have you ever said ‘thank you’ once?” the VP said. Andrew Harnik via Getty ImagesMore

“According to this line of thought, the U.S. spends so much more money than any other nation on defense and foreign aid, and others are freeloading off the U.S.’s generosity,”″ Belt said.

That makes sense when leveled at Zelenskyy, but the fact that Vance is using it domestically ― directing the criticism toward fellow Americans ― is something new. Although subtle, Vance’s repeated use of the trope can be viewed as another way of othering non-white Americans.

Given all that immigrants have done for this country, maybe it’s Vance who needs to extend a “thank you,” said Shaun Harper, a professor of public policy, business and education at the University of Southern California.