Don’t expect to see former MSNBC host Joy Reid at MetLife Stadium supporting the New York Giants anytime soon — at least not while quarterback Jaxson Dart is behind center.
Dart, 23, introduced President Donald Trump at a rally at Rockland Community College in Suffern, New York last month, which didn’t sit well with Reid, 57.
“I have to say, as somebody who grew up as a Giants fan, I was repulsed by Jaxson Dart,” Reid said Sunday, May 31, on On Sunday with Jack Cocchiarella. “First of all, he didn’t say he was happy, he said he was ‘pleasured’ to meet the president. What does that even mean? First of all, he’s an idiot. What do you mean you’re pleasured to meet the president? Is English your first language? What are you saying?”
She added, “I was repulsed as a Giants fan. Well, former now.”
Reid explained that her disdain for Dart championing Trump, 79, stemmed from her argument that he’s “not a normal president.”
“This isn’t praising the presidency or praising the idea of America or an American president,” Reid said. “Donald Trump is not an American president. Donald Trump is a wannabe king.”
She continued, “But you’re pleasured to meet him though, Jaxson?”
Reid further argued that the rules are different for white and Black athletes, recalling when LeBron James was told to “shut up and dribble” by Fox News host Laura Ingraham after he criticized Trump in 2018.
“The ‘shut up and dribble’ is only if you are disrupting the status quo,” Reid said. “Sports has always been political and it’s always been used as Americana. They love it when the athletes are representing America on the court or on the field. That’s what you’re supposed to do. If you’re waving the flag, that’s fine. If you’re challenging the flag or challenging the status quo in the county, that’s a problem.”
Dart introducing Trump also caused some drama in the Giants locker room. After footage from the rally hit the news, Giants linebacker Abdul Carter wrote via X, “Thought this s*** was AI, what we doing man.”
Carter, 22, provided an update on Friday, May 29, telling reporters that he and Dart had spoken, but acknowledged that some things are “bigger than football.”
“Jaxson is one of our leaders,” Carter said. “He’s the face of our franchise. He not only represents himself and what he does, but he represents all of us, and that goes for anybody who wears a Giants uniform, but if he chooses to align himself with a man like President Trump, it’s my responsibility, based on what I believe and what I stand on, to not only show my teammates that I’m against that, but to show the world.”
