Rachel Maddow makes humbling admission about career as Jen Psaki takes over MSNBC Prime Time

MSNBC star Rachel Maddow humbly admitted that her successor Jen Psaki will host a better show than her after the liberal icon wrapped her run of Trump’s first 100 days.

Maddow ended her nightly weekday stint – which she took a rumored $5 million pay cut to keep – and handed the reigns over to Joe Biden‘s former White House Press Secretary.

She had returned to a five-nights-a-week schedule to cover Donald Trump‘s first 100 days of his second term. Maddow will return to her weekly Monday night show.

Psaki secured the Tuesday to Friday primetime show as the network’s ruthless new boss conducts a major lineup overhaul amid plummeting ratings.

MSNBC saw a decline in total viewers during primetime and total day for the week of April 28, reported AdWeek.

Maddow confessed that Psaki’s show will be better than hers because the former press secretary has actual news connections.

‘The thing she has which I do not have, which is going to make 9 o’clock better with Jen Psaki than it is with Rachel Maddow, is that she both knows people and knows how to talk to people,’ Maddow told People.

‘I really am a weird little hermit who works great with my staff, but I don’t know anybody in Washington. I don’t know anybody in the news, and it’s on purpose.

Rachel Maddow (pictured) humbly admitted that her successor Jen Psaki will host a better show than her

Psaki (pictured) secured the Tuesday to Friday primetime show as the network’s ruthless new boss conducts a major lineup overhaul amid plummeting ratings

‘I am not great at interacting with people. I’m not a great interviewer and I’m not great at cultivating sources. It’s not my thing. I’m a reader, not a talker.’

Maddow expressed her support in Psaki as her successor, claiming she believes Psaki will be immune to the ‘television curse that turns decent people into monsters.’

‘I don’t know anybody else who really can do that the way that she does,’ Maddow said. ‘She’s not been susceptible to that wizardry. She’s a good person.’

In February, MSNBC announced that Psaki would anchor the 9pm hour for Tuesdays through Fridays, ending Alex Wagner’s time at the helm.

While Psaki will host the 9pm slot four days a week, the network’s biggest star, Maddow, will host one day a week. Her namesake show will return to Mondays at 9 pm following the first 100 days of the Trump Administration.

Psaki’s apparent promotion is the latest in a slew of changes by new MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler.

Kutler axed Joy Reid and canceled her namesake show The ReidOut, which has been a fixture of MSNBC’s evening programming since 2020.

Psaki’s apparent promotion is the latest in a slew of changes by new MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler (pictured)

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Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin have also been given the boot from their current timeslots by the network’s new boss.

Kutler was officially named president of MSNBC on February 12, after dropping her interim title following Rashida Jones’ departure.

MSNBC stars and contributors have reportedly had to endure several indignities as the progressive network aims to cut costs amid plummeting ratings.

In recent years, contributors to the network have sometimes had to pay for their own Ubers to get to the MSNBC DC studios, and have been forced to do their own makeup, as reported by Puck News.

As the outlet puts it, it is ‘[sad], but justifiable when you’re averaging less than 600,000 viewers in total day and less than 60,000 in the demo.’

The DC studios are the home base for anchors such Psaki and the former headquarters for fired Joy Reid.

MSNBC has been struggling with its audience and is currently preparing to split from parent its company NBCUniversal later this year.