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This writer’s devastating takedown of Donald Trump is even more on the money now than when it was written

Poke Staff. Updated October 6th, 2026

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Full disclosure – this is not the first time we have featured this especially excoriating takedown of Donald Trump and, let’s face it, it’s probably not going to be the last.

But if anything is worth repetition then it is surely this, an especially vivid (and insulting) description of the current president of the United States.

It was shared over on Twitter just a little bit back in the day by @lesstenny.

It’s the work of historian and writer Oliver Kornetzke who wrote it on Facebook the previous month and it feels like it’s been doing the rounds ever since.

Here is it being read by TikTok user @scragola.

And here’s the full text:

“Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul—all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair.

“Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been—arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel.

“It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul—it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.”

As true today as it was then and if Trump carries on the way he’s going it might not be devastating enough. And here are just a few of the many comments it prompted..

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https://twitter.com/1_state/status/1971687868470120693

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Source Twitter/X/lesstenny