What did JD Vance say to Joy Reid? Former MSNBC host hits back at the Vice President’s remarks 

Former MSNBC anchor Joy Reid pushed back on Vice President JD Vance's demand that she be grateful for a life in America.

On Thursday, Vance retweeted a video of Reid in which she recounted her family's history with racism in the U.S.

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

According to the VP, she should be grateful for the life she has in the country.

“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,” he wrote on X of the video.

Reid clapped back within hours via a lengthy post on Substack. She expressed shock that the vice president was interested in responding directly to her comments.

“And while I suppose it’s good news that Vance is dispensing advice to women beyond “quit your job, find a right wing husband, have more babies and adopt fewer cats,” as was his habit during the campaign, I have to admit, I am surprised that the vice president of the United States has so much time on his hands that he’s scrolling old interviews of mine and posting on X-Twitter,” Reid wrote, also adding: “Tweet less and govern more, James David; you are wasting our time and tax money.”

Joy Reid pens a scathing statement for JD Vance, read it below:

In her Substack, titled "The vice president has too much time on his hands," she explained that she did not care "all that much" that JD Vance tweeted at her. She cited the rising unemployment rate in the country, and "the disasters Trump’s unique combination of greed and dereliction are unleashing in the Middle East and in Ukraine," among others, before adding,

"With all of that going on, the vice president of the United States is spending his time trolling me on Twitter??? And not even for the first time??? For this, we’re paying this guy $235,000 a year??? And y’all got on Kamala Harris with the whole “well what has she done,” garbage. Sheesh! She at least negotiated that Central American public-private partnership to reduce traffic to the border and tried to get to the root causes of migration, and was the tie breaking vote on key legislation. This guy though? He TWEETS. I guess that’s what you call “reverse DEI.”"

Just last week, JD Vance responded to another clip of Joy Reid speaking on a panel, where she alleged that the former likely benefitted from affirmative action when he got accepted into Yale.

“Maybe the way JD Vance got into Yale is because they were tired of just letting in white men from New York from Choate, from all the elite schools. They wanted an Appalachian white. That’s how that man got into Yale, I promise you,” Reid said on Don Lemon’s show Sept. 24. “That’s also affirmative action and DEI.”

Vance responded with a meme of himself, with his face bloated and his head bald.

As for Vance's suggestions that she show some more gratitude, Joy Reid stated:

“men like JD who believe themselves to be our betters will either assume that you stole your success from a more deserving white person or they’ll demand that you show them some ‘gratitude.’”

In her Substack, she thanked civil rights activists, and her mother:

“I’m grateful to the abolitionists and civil rights heroes who showed us the meaning of resistance,” she wrote. “And most of all, JD, I’m grateful to my mom, Philomena Augustina Carryl Lomena, who came to this country all by herself and built a life. Who sacrificed her own health to keep a roof over her children’s heads, and who fought with the headwinds of anti-Blackness in her face to be somebody of account in this country."

Joy Reid concluded,

“I’m grateful that she died knowing her baby was gonna earn a Harvard degree. And I’m especially grateful that she made her way in this country so foreign to her, despite people like you."

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