Megyn Kelly tells Miranda Devine that Joy Reid is ‘insane lunatic’ whose podcast will fail

Megyn Kelly blasted former MSNBC host Joy Reid as an “insane lunatic” who’s “extremely racist” and predicted Reid’s new podcast “is not going to go well.”

The former Fox News star’s fiery remarks came during an interview with The Post’s Miranda Devine, which will stream on this week’s edition of “Pod Force One.”

Kelly was asked about Reid, her former NBC colleague, who recently left cable news to launch her own podcast.

“Joy Reid is an insane lunatic who’s truly, honestly, extremely racist,” Kelly said. “She’s never seen a white person who she likes.”

Kelly, who hosts the SiriusXM podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show,” added that “the only people who have a possibility of being liked by Joy Reid, if they’re white, are people who will openly subjugate themselves to her” and “tell her how smart she is.”

According to Kelly, these people “tell her they believe her Harvard degree was real and pretend that they’re somehow less-than because she’s the be-all, end-all because that’s what she wants us to believe.”

In 2023, Reid wrote an essay for MSNBC in which she acknowledged that she got into Harvard “because of affirmative action.”

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The Post has sought comment from Reid, NBC News and MSNBC.

Kelly claimed that NBC cut its ties to Reid after it had “had enough of her,” adding that Reid’s move into independent media was doomed from the start.

“Joy Reid is going to fail in the independent lane because she’s too toxic,” Kelly said.

“It’s not going to go well … she was super racist, and NBC had enough of her and said we cannot be attached to this person any longer.”

Kelly argued that liberal hosts have failed to replicate their television followings online because left-leaning personalities “don’t have to come over here” and “the left controls every single other outlet.”

She added that conservative voices like hers thrive outside corporate media because they aren’t constrained by network bosses or advertisers’ agendas.

“There are no sacred cows,” Kelly told Devine earlier in the interview.

“I can say how I actually feel about any subject, and I do.”

MSNBC fired Reid in February as part of a network overhaul led by newly installed president Rebecca Kutler.

The shake-up, which affected several primetime and weekend hosts, came as MSNBC suffered a ratings decline in the wake of the 2024 presidential election.

Reid later suggested her firing was linked to management unease over her coverage of President Trump and the Gaza war, while insiders pointed to slipping ratings and disputes over her social media use.

“Anytime I would tweet anything, I would get calls — I would get, ‘Please get off Twitter, we hate it’,” Reid told podcaster Katie Couric earlier this year.

“They just don’t like that it pulls their talent and their reporters out of their control because now you’re not running what you’re tweeting through Standards and Practices.”

Reid’s departure sparked backlash from progressive commentators and former colleagues, who called it a blow to diversity in cable news.

MSNBC’s decision drew cheers from Trump, who celebrated the move on social media, while figures like Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann publicly criticized the network for what they described as an unjustified dismissal.

The left-leaning cable network is entering uncharted waters this week.

MSNBC formally split from NBC News on Monday, ending nearly 30 years of shared editorial operations as part of Comcast’s reorganization into a new cable group called Versant.

The move gives MSNBC full editorial independence and its own newsroom, with a rebrand to “MS NOW” expected later this year.