Former MSNBC host Joy Reid went on a nearly two-minute tirade during a Thursday interview attacking President Donald Trump as the leader of a “monotheistic cult” that she claims Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrongly believes he “will inherit.”
As far back as 2019, Reid said that substantial “evidence” backed the claim that Trump support was “a racial and religious cult of personality” and that white evangelicals assert he is “the chosen one of God.” On counterterrorism analyst Malcolm Nance’s YouTube channel, Reid claimed neither Rubio nor Trump have any principles, hurling crude insults at both. (RELATED: Lindsey Graham Says He Does Not Anticipate American ‘Boots On The Ground’ In Iran)
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“Marco Rubio believes in nothing. He’s been a Catholic, he’s been a Mormon, he’s been an Evangelical — he’s whatever religion works for him in the moment. And he’s also whatever ideology works for him in the moment,” Reid said. “He’s been a Bush-style Republican, he’s been a supposed Tea Partier, which is the opposite of a Bush-style Republican. He’s been for Ukraine, doesn’t give a crap about Ukraine. He’s been hard on Russia, he doesn’t care if Russia is dominating the Earth. He doesn’t believe in anything.”
“He thought Donald Trump was a small-penis weakling, and now he thinks Donald Trump is God. Marco Rubio believes in nothing. But he doesn’t even have the intellectual heft of a [Republican Texas Sen.] Ted Cruz — who’s barely got any,” she continued. “He’s got less. So he couldn’t even be president. And I have always said this man will never be president because he doesn’t believe in anything. Neither does Trump, but at least Trump has the talent of performance. He doesn’t even have that.”
Rubio on Jan. 20 became the first cabinet nominee that the Senate confirmed during Trump’s second term. The secretary of state received 99 yes votes and zero no votes, according to the unofficial tally.
“Marco Rubio is doing what he’s doing now because in his mind, he thinks that somehow he can inherit the cult of Donald Trump,” Reid added. “That when Trump is aged out and when the devil takes him home, when he goes back below earth, from whence he came, when his soul — when the man — when the creature to which he has sold his soul takes him — he thinks that he will inherit that cult … they all think it. They think they can inherit the cult.”
“What they don’t understand is that when Jim Jones was gone, there was no other Jim Jones. There was only one Jim Jones. And when he killed all those people in the forests of Guyana, even his son could not become the next Jim Jones,” she said. “Because cults are sui generis. They worship one person — not even God — they worship one god. And these people are a monotheistic cult. And the mono — the god — is named Donald Trump.”
Rubio and Trump were rivals during the 2016 Republican presidential primary, hurling accusations and insults at one another.
Rubio developed a reputation for being a foreign policy hawk, pushing for a globally involved U.S. that safeguards “freedom fighters” and democracies, according to a speech he delivered in 2011. However, as he grew closer to Trump during the 2024 election cycle, his views evolved to become more aligned with Trump’s ‘America First’ foreign policy agenda.
MSNBC canceled Reid’s primetime program, “The ReidOut,” in February. She has a reputation for being obsessed with race and spewing far-left talking points.
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