Rachel Maddow of MS NOW recently delivered a lengthy comedic critique of Donald Trump’s age, mortality, and appearance during a visit to Canada. Her comments took place at an event hosted by The UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, where she discussed global politics.

At 52, Maddow appeared to take satisfaction in the prospect that the 79-year-old Trump’s second term might be nearing its conclusion. Her speech was peppered with references to Trump as a “despot,” drawing laughter and attention from the audience.

Maddow adopted the voice of disenchanted Americans, expressing frustration over a perceived lack of autonomy under Trump’s leadership. She commented, “There’s no point in considering your own decisions, because he’s the one calling all the shots, leaving everyone else feeling powerless.”

She highlighted how dictators foster a sense of inevitability and permanence, urging people to abandon hope. Maddow, however, countered this narrative, encouraging her listeners to reject such thinking.

Building up to her punchline, Maddow shared her personal resolve, noting that each day she finds it increasingly easier to dismiss the mindset that supports authoritarian rule.

‘But I am also finding it, in my own mind, I’m finding that it is getting easier and easier to reject that mindset every day.

‘I want to be clear. I reject the inevitability and the supposed indefinite rule of Trump and Trumpism, not because I believe that the cheeseburgers will ultimately win,’ she quipped.

‘I mean, it’s not just that he is the oldest person ever elected to the presidency, and he is obese, and he has gigantically swollen ankles, and he drags his leg, and he now puts more makeup on his hands than even what he puts on his face.

Maddow, 52, was relishing in the fact that the 79-year-old’s second term may soon be at an end during an appearance at The UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia (UBC) for a speech about global politics when she made the joke

It homed in on the 79-year-old commander-in-chief’s advanced age, makeup application, and overall health

‘And he puts so much on his face that on a good day he looks like he’s been well embalmed,’ she said as the audience laughed. 

 Maddow then homed in on a rash spotted on the commander-in-chief’s neck earlier this month. The administration has said Trump is healthy and his ankles’ appearance is linked to chronic venous insufficiency, a condition that is generally not fatal.

‘It looks like he was attacked by a particularly lusty sea lamprey that someone ripped off of him too fast after it had sunk hundreds of its gritty, dull, dirty little teeth into the wrinkly, fleshy plane just below his right ear,’ Maddow said to more laughs.

‘It really is. It’s bloody bright red and crumbly. And it has holes in it. It looks like clumpy spaghetti sauce burned onto a baking sheet. It’s not good.’   

‘But it is not his health that makes me convinced that this radical and awful time in American governance will end,’ she continued, now serious. ‘It’s nothing about him at all. It’s about the American people.’

Maddow called Trump’s years in office ‘a rupture and not a transition.’

‘What he’s doing will not only be opposed, it will be catalogued, and labeled and kept track of, so it can be fundamentally reversed.

‘The world will change because of this disaster that is still unfolding in my country,’ she said. ‘And your country will be one of the nations that leads the free world that we have now abandoned and turned against.’

A hopeful Maddow pointed to a rash spotted on the commander-in-chief’s neck this month as part of her punchline

The commander-in-chief’s ankles as they were on August 18 of last year – another aspect of Trump’s appearance used by ammo by the liberal commentator. The administration has said Trump is healthy and his ankles’ appearance is linked to chronic venous insufficiency

She ultimately told the audience: ‘This despot that has taken over my country’s government will not have the last word’

Maddow, in the end, argued that ‘Canada has never been more critical in the rules-based international order’ than it is right now. 

‘And as my country has torn up what was left of the old one, Canada will be absolutely central to establishing a new one, a better one,’ she said while becoming visibly emotional.

‘This despot that has taken over my country’s government will not have the last word.’

Maddow is MS NOW’s marquee host and has been with the network for 17 years.