‘Biggest losers of the party’: Megyn Kelly says MSNBC ‘toilet’ ratings are ‘no accident’

SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly said Monday on her podcast that MSNBC’s “toilet” ratings are “no accident,” following Comcast’s announcement that it will spin off a number of cable channels.

Comcast announced on Wednesday that it will spin off MSNBC, CNBC, USA, E!, Oxygen, Syfy, and other news and entertainment channels. The move comes after MSNBC’s ratings fell by 53% following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. On “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the SiriusXM host played a clip of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who claimed that critics of the press have felt “more empowered” to “lie” about the media, repeatedly asserting that what the corporate media does “matters.”

“Joy Reid was literally saying that if Trump won, they were going to start locking up brown people. So maybe spare me on the lectures of, ‘You stir people up and then make money.’ It’s no accident that MSNBC’s ratings are in the toilet,” Kelly said.

“They’re being spun off because reputationally they’re a nightmare for Comcast and NBC. These are the biggest losers at the party with their little pocket squares, and they’ve been spun off to go sit in the part with the non-alcohol punch,” Kelly added. “They’re still trying to tell us, Steve, that they’re the main people at the party and they matter. ‘There’s no prom king without me!’”

Kelly later called out Axios CEO Jim VandeHei, who appeared in the clip with Scarborough, for his criticism of “opinionated influencers” building followings on X, before slamming additional MSNBC hosts. RELATED: ‘Republicans Want To Kill Your Kids’: Dem Commentator Urges Party To Get ‘Direct,’ Warns Lawmakers Backing Trump Picks

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“Then Scarborough, too, looking at them saying, ‘We here at MSNBC, we matter’ as if we should look at Russia, Russia, Russia, Rachel Maddow, Russia Maddow and Joy Reid, who all she does is spew racist tropes. That’s it. That’s all she does is spew racism about Donald Trump. Not to mention the rest of their pathetic lineup. We should be looking at them as the credible ones,” Kelly continued.

“It’s very irritating to them that there are people on X who have a platform and people in the digital lane like us that have a platform that others are listening to because that’s not factual, you see,” Kelly said. “By the way, many of us are reporters, are journalists, and would put our credentials up against anyone up and down that lineup any day of the week.”

‘Morning Joe’ hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski announced on Nov. 18 that they had visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate for the first time in several years and expressed their interest in “restarting communications.” While the hosts faced backlash online, they claimed a day later that they had received a handful of “supportive” phone calls following the announcement.

Before Trump’s victory, Scarborough, Brzezinski, and various guests on their show had compared Trump to Adolf Hitler, accusing him of being a fascist and ramping up the rhetoric, along with Harris’ campaign, against the former president in the weeks leading up to Election Day. Scarborough had claimed during a Sept. 23 show that Trump was the single biggest “threat to democracy since the Civil War.”