MSNBC’s Joy Reid suggests ‘white Christians’ feel entitled to control US through Trump

DES MOINES, Ia. (TND) — MSNBC host Joy Reid suggested Monday former President Donald Trump’s popularity in Iowa is largely thanks to white Christians who feel entitled to control American government.

“These are white Christians,” Reid said of Iowa voters. “That this is a state that is overrepresented by white Christians.”

These individuals, she continued, hold a belief that God has made them the inheritors of the United States.

What do they get out of supporting Donald Trump? Because he keeps losing, he keeps delivering losses and losses and losses,” she said. “They see themselves as the rightful inheritors of this country and Trump has promised to give it back to them.”

She continued, explaining Trump’s lack of “electability” is negated by these beliefs.

“All the things that we think about, about electability, what are people gaining, none of that matters when you believe that God has given you this country, that everyone who is not a white conservative Christian is a fraudulent American, is a less real American. Then you don’t care about electability,” she added.

Commenters on X slammed the take as racist.

Take a seat Joy Reid and stop being so obsessed with race and religion!” commentator Kathleen Winchell said.

“Joy Reid being racist is not breaking news,” commentator Paul Szypula added. “Breaking news would be Joy Reid not being racist.”

Reid has gained a reputation for emotive racial outbursts. In 2022, she compared evacuating Floridians to border crossers in a jab at Gov. Ron DeSantis. Earlier that year, she also suggested Elon Musk missed the South African apartheid.

Trump on Monday saw a landslide victory at the Iowa caucuses, breaking the record for the widest margin of victory in the race since the nearly 13 percentage points the late Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., won by in 1988.