Overview

• Joy Reid released a two-part video on July 17 accusing Piers Morgan of ambushing her by centering the discussion on race instead of the promised subjects.
• She cited an email from Morgan’s team that outlined a free-flowing conversation on her new show, Trump’s administration and other current politics as proof of the setup.
• Reid condemned Morgan’s “gotcha” maneuver of resurrecting an eight-year-old blog post to label the memoir All Boys Aren’t Blue as pornography.
• Morgan took to X before the episode aired to declare the interview “did not go well… for Joy Reid” and to brand her “obsessed with race & identity politics.”
• The broadcast aired heated disputes over deportation numbers under Presidents Obama and Trump and featured reciprocal allegations of racial fixation.