Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles slammed former MSNBC host Joy Reid in a surprise appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”

Morgan was interviewing Reid when he asked her to respond to a clip from “The Michael Knowles Show” that aired shortly after “The ReidOut” was canceled.

Knowles said at the time:

Joy Reid — probably the nastiest figure on MSNBC, the most Left, the most vicious against conservatives and white people and men and all the rest — she has just been canned, fired, kicked to the side of the road, her show is over. This saddens me a little bit, because I did not yet have the opportunity to go on it.

I am celebrating that there is no longer a market for her disgusting product. That’s what I’m genuinely happy about. There has been a major shift. Her show, and shows like her show, no longer have value. And that’s not just because of Joy Reid’s favorite villains: the evil white man or the Christians or the conservatives. It’s because no one watches her show.

“So, Joy, I’ve actually got Michael Knowles waiting in the wings,” Morgan said after the clip aired. “What did you make of his critique of your show?”

“Well, I mean, the reality is that obviously people watched the show,” Reid said. “That’s the reason that the show was on for four and a half, nearly five years. So if he didn’t like the show, I guess, sorry you didn’t enjoy it, but I really am not that interested in his views on it.”

Knowles fired right back.

“I guess I would agree with Joy’s take. People watched the show, in the past tense,” Knowles said. “And now there’s no longer a market for that absolutely vile content, and I think that’s good for the culture broadly.”

"People watched the show, in the past tense, and now there's no longer a market for that absolutely vile content."

Surprise guest @michaeljknowles joins former MSNBC host Joy Reid on Piers Morgan Uncensored. pic.twitter.com/MkW1px8HWZ

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) July 17, 2025

Reid accused Knowles and Morgan of “[trading] in grievance.”

“White grievance is very good for your bottom lines,” Reid said. “So having me here to be able to continue to traffic in that, that is your shtick.”

Knowles said Reid’s accusation was pure projection.

“When she’s talking about this anger, this grievance — I think, frankly, Piers, you and I are two of the least aggrieved people in the entire media,” Knowles said. “Generally pretty chipper, cheery people.”

Knowles added that while the Left pushed grievance politics, President Donald Trump decided success would be the best form of revenge.

“He did bring on a lot of people, many more than just white people, to his coalition: 46% of Hispanics, one in five Black men, 40% of women under 30,” Knowles said. “So, he built a very large coalition here.”

That coalition, Knowles said, is concerning liberals such as former President Barack Obama, who pushed grievance politics.

“Obama was one of the big promoters of proto-wokeness,” Knowles said. “It spun out of control, so now you’re seeing this run away with them.”

Knowles said the Left is now trying to backtrack on grievance politics.

“The Democrats got creamed in the 2024 elections. And [Obama’s] saying, ‘Whoa, whoa, guys, bring it back. Don’t seem so aggrieved,'” Knowles said. “I just think it’s a little bit too late. He’s being hoisted with his own petard.”

President Donald Trump forcefully shot down a Wall Street Journal report on Thursday night claiming that he wrote a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that included a sketch of a naked woman, saying he’d sue the outlet for claiming otherwise.

“This is not me,” Trump told the outlet. “This is a fake thing.”

He followed that up with a lengthy statement a few hours after its publication, stating that the paper’s owner Rupert Murdoch and editor-in-chief Emma Tucker were “warned directly” by Trump that the letter “was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued.”

“President Trump will be suing the Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. Murdoch, shortly,” Trump said.

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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 18, 2025

The Wall Street Journal article claimed that it had obtained a “letter bearing Trump’s name” that was included in a birthday book created for Epstein. It claims that the letter was part of a leather-bound album, and that Trump framed his letter within “the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker.”

Notably, the paper did not include an image of the letter it claimed to have reviewed. It says the letter was part of the trove of Department of Justice papers that have come to be known as the “Epstein files.” Neither the DOJ nor the FBI responded to its requests for comment, it disclosed.

Trump has sought to shut down furor surrounding the Epstein disclosures, which started when the DOJ announced nearly two weeks ago that there would be no major release pertaining to Epstein. It also announced that there was no “client list” and concluded that there was no evidence calling into question Epstein’s suicide.

After lashing out at the Wall Street Journal article, Trump publicly stated that he’d asked his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to release “any and all” pertinent Grand Jury testimony on Epstein that a court would allow.

Bondi said she was “ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts.”

President Trump—we are ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts. pic.twitter.com/hOXzdTcYYB

— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) July 18, 2025

Trump has already said that he asked Bondi to release any credible evidence on Epstein to the public.

Trump’s initial post refuting the Wall Street Journal’s report argues that if the letter was genuine, there is no chance it wouldn’t have “been revealed by Comey, Brennan, Crooked Hillary, and other Radical left Lunatics years ago.”

All of the documents in question were in the government’s possession during the Biden administration.

“It certainly would not have sat in a file waiting for ‘TRUMP’ to have won three Elections,” Trump said. “This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS!”

While it is well-documented that Trump and Epstein were friendly when they both lived in New York City, there is no evidence that Trump was involved in any of Epstein’s criminal wrongdoing. Epstein was not accused of sexual relations with young girls until 2006, years after the two had a falling out.

Though headlines on Epstein have driven the news cycle for the last week, with many right-wing commentators and influencers criticizing Trump’s handling of the situation, it appears to have had no standing on Trump’s voters. Polling shows that Trump’s approval rating has gone up with Republican voters since the Epstein announcement.