Rachel Maddow traveled north of the border last Thursday evening to friendly territory for Trump critics, in Vancouver, British Columbia. She did not disappoint her Canadian hosts.

At a forum titled “America First, America Alone?” Maddow was in fine spirits and finer form as she read the president as “literally rotting from the inside out,” in the words of one Threads user who posted a clip from her opening remarks.

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It was colorful — literally and figuratively.

Maddow teed up her graphic description with trademark earnestness, then prepared her audience with an oozing MAGA metaphor.

“I reject the inevitability and the supposed indefinite rule of Trump and Trumpism” she told the Canadians, before pausing for effect and adding, “not because I believe the cheeseburgers will ultimately win.” That got a laugh from the knowing Canucks.

Then, like an attending physician leading her medical students on rounds, Maddow took her audience on a grand tour of the president’s decaying body.

“I mean it’s not just that he’s the oldest person 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, and he puts so much on his face on a good day that he looks like he’s been well-embalmed,” she shared to jaw drops and whoops.

“He also — on top of that! — has a knarly new bright red, lumpy neck rash on the right side of his neck, which makes it look 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 to the wrinkly fleshy plane just below his right ear.”

The crowd roared their approval of the rotting diagnosis, but there was a coda.

“It really is,” Maddow finished, over exhausted laughs. “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!” she added brightly.

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