MS NOW star Rachel Maddow cracks warped gag about Trump dying as she mocks his age, makeup and cankles

MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow embarked on a long-winded joke about Donald Trump’s mortality, age, and cankles in Canada last week.

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. 

The host repeatedly referred to Trump as a ‘despot’ during the appearance. Roughly a half-hour in, she spoke from the perspective of frustrated Americans.

‘There’s no use in thinking about making decisions yourself, because he’s the only one who gets to make the decisions or even really do anything – and so everybody else should give up, because he is inevitable and he is forever.

‘Dictators need you to think that way. And I reject that. And I know you do too,’ Maddow continued, before eventually setting the joke up. 

‘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.

‘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.’

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.