Joy Reid is back in the spotlight—again for attacking the very country that gave her enormous opportunity. A resurfaced clip from her December 2025 Crooked Media podcast is making the rounds, and it’s even more unhinged than usual. This time Reid accused America’s Founding Fathers of being “killers,” “leeches,” and slave-owning villains who supposedly launched the Revolutionary War simply because they didn’t want to pay taxes.
Reid raged, “This nation was founded by killers who slaughtered 90% of the indigenous people… leeches who learned from the indigenous and then murdered them… and took all their land.”
She then added, bizarrely, that the Founders felt so “entitled” to own slaves that they “decided to have a whole war with Britain.”
It’s the same tired progressive narrative—America is evil, its history shameful, and modern Americans should live in perpetual guilt because Joy Reid says so.
Naturally, conservatives on social media fired back hard. One X user noted that Reid’s entire tirade is only tolerated *because* those very Founders established free speech and a nation where even the most anti-American rhetoric can air on national media. Another slammed her for the obvious anti-white resentment driving her commentary, writing, “I’m sick of Joy Reid’s ‘I hate white people’ mantra.”
And perhaps the most pointed response: “What other nation on Earth would allow someone to sit on TV, trash the country, and insult its founders every day, while being paid millions to do it?”
Excellent question.
More importantly, conservatives pointed out what Reid conveniently ignores: virtually every civilization on Earth displaced previous peoples through war. Slavery existed worldwide long before the United States and continues in parts of Africa and Asia today. But Reid’s outrage always seems to point only one direction—toward America, and only America.
Historically speaking, her claims are not just inflammatory—they’re wrong. The Revolutionary War was sparked by British attempts to control colonial commerce, impose unfair taxation without representation, and strip colonists of basic liberties. Americans fought to establish a representative government, not to protect slavery. In fact, many Founders actively opposed slavery, and the system was ultimately abolished through America’s own constitutional process—led by Americans who believed in liberty.
But history isn’t the point for Joy Reid. The goal is grievance, division, and the perpetual rewriting of American history to portray the country as fundamentally evil.
This isn’t her first time spinning racially-charged conspiracy theories, either. She previously suggested that Republicans only dislike JD Vance because his wife is Indian, accusing conservatives of rejecting him because he has a “Brown Hindu wife.” That smear was so absurd it barely made it past her lips before being dragged across social media.
At the end of the day, Joy Reid’s angry monologues say less about America and far more about a political movement that sees America not as something to preserve, defend, or improve—only something to condemn.
Fortunately, millions of Americans aren’t buying it. They still understand the truth: America wasn’t founded by “leeches.” It was founded by brave men who risked everything for liberty—and built the greatest nation the world has ever seen.
