Ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid gave a fiery speech Sunday warning that President Donald Trump and his allies are trying to turn America into North Korea by reshaping its media companies.
As Trump hosted a UFC event at the White House and the United States prepared to celebrate its 250th birthday, actress Jane Fonda and other celebrities gathered at “Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment.”
During the event, Reid delivered a speech condemning “orange a–hole” Trump’s impact on the media landscape, warning, “The threat is not coming, friends – it is here.”
“Don Lemon arrested, Georgia Fort arrested, Terry Moran fired from ABC, Scott Pelley fired from CBS by the clack [sic] of far-right ideologues who bought it and handed it over to a zealot named Bari Weiss who may soon — she earned those boos — she may soon also control CNN,” Reid warned in her speech, as the crowd jeered the mention of Weiss.
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After listing numerous other incidents involving high-profile media figures and networks, she declared, “This is corporate media on its knees. A handful of billionaires consolidating local stations, newspapers, national networks, turning American journalism into what they hope will become a U.S. version of North Korea.”
“They want us afraid,” she said. “Trump wants us to shrink when he calls us crooked, stupid, piggy, and when he screams in the faces of women journalists. And by the way, Barbara Walters would never — she would have eaten him alive. Rest in peace, Barbara.”
“’We are not afraid, we are not afraid!’” Reid sang. “That stanza from ‘We shall overcome’ is still true. The path forward is independent media and independent voices unbossed and unafraid.”
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She encouraged listeners to subscribe to her show and also follow other left-wing journalists like Lemon and ex-CNN anchor Jim Acosta, who over the weekend compared the removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
“We are not shrinking, we are growing! So be louder, be bolder, rise up, sing out!” she said.
Fox News Digital reached out to CBS and the White House and did not receive an immediate reply.
