This vividly insulting description of Donald Trump is the most brutal summary of the US president you'll ever read

[sheshe2]

Historian and writer Oliver Kornetzke wrote the brutal takedown of the US president in a Facebook post in August 2025, and Twitter/X user @lesstenny then shared it. It’s since been retweeted 12k times, with 38k likes (and counting).

— Estel Cooper (@estel62.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T01:14:09.136Z

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.”

Needless to say, Oliver’s words have struck a chord.

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[Cha]

1. Definitely.... Traitor oozes out of

every word.

Oliver Kornetzke Writes so Brilliantly Descriptive For Millions Americans.

Mahalo, she~ 💙

[sheshe2]

10. Brutal take down and 100% correct, was it not!

Brilliant indeed, Cha.

Well said, Mr Kornzke, very well said.

[leftstreet]

2. This would make a great obit for him n/t

[llmart]

6. I was just going to say the same thing!

Maybe we can get together and buy up an obit ad in the NY Times when the welcome event happens.

[lastlib]

14. I'll put in my nickels!

Let's Do It!!

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[tanyev]

4. Best comment: "I need to get this made into a Christmas card."

[sheshe2]

11. I know, right?

[eppur_se_muova]

34. Keep us posted, should it happen ! nt

[Blue Owl]

5. Can't wait until that fat fuck is dead and buried.

Just die already you miserable piece of shit.

[sheshe2]

12. Not a wish I would normally make.

However, I am willing to make an exception here. Yes indeed.

[Bluejeans]

7. I'm laughing so hard, I'm crying!

This was hilarious!

[Fil1957]

8. All true, but I know people who think the greatest men who've ever walked the earth are Jesus Christ, Buddha, Ghandi and

Donald Trump. And not necessarily in that order. I kid you not.

[H2O Man]

9. Perfect!

Recommended.

[Queso Delicioso]

13. Powerful, not just because it's erudite but because it's true.

[3825-87867]

15. If the spray painted face doesn't convince you

that trump is totally fake because he's lying to you about his actual looks and doesn't want you to see what he really looks like, you should probably have NO question whether he's lied to you about ANYTHING else he's EVER said!

And yes , he's really that stupid.

v

[Marie Marie]

16. Everything he said and MORE!!

[calimary]

17. That's an insult to rotting pumpkins everywhere.

[DinahMoeHum]

18. Oliver Kornetzke has a Substack

if y'all interested.

https://oliverkornetzke.substack.com/

Gotta give The Rude Pundit a run for his money, dont'cha know?

[sheshe2]

19. Thank you!

I will go check it out. I love this man.

[mia]

20. "...everything this country swears it isn't ...

...but always has been." ??
Really??

Just because Trump is the distillation of everything that is wrong with the United States at this time, doesn't mean that our country has always been this way.

The author of the tweet, could have left those four words out, and it would have been more powerful in terms of bringing voters to our side.

[sheshe2]

24. There has always been people that have strived to make this a better place.

Just because Trump is the distillation of everything that is wrong with the United States at this time, doesn't mean that our country has always been this way.

We still have a dark history, a very dark history.

From Wounded Knee, The Tulsa Race Riots and more than I can address.

Now we have a 'Resident that wants to 'whitewash' America so to speak and it won't be for the first time that America has tried to do that.

[Picaro]

21. Wish that I had said this

Literally could not have said it better myself.

[3Hotdogs]

22. My favorite section - Paraded like a prize hog at a country fair.

[ancianita]

23. I see this differently. This is every bit as much about America as it is trump. Note:

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 ... 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.”

Kornetzke is saying trump is a symbol of the ugliness America "... has always been" ...

As the longest standing democracy in human history, and as the leader of the free world for 100 years of Western history, America has almost never been "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..." That would be the felon that 77% of America did not vote for.

So to all ten of you Oliver Kornetzkes online who shit on this great country by sloppily flogging it with trump?

You Kornetzkes can go shove it.

No one -- especially Americans -- should NEVER-EVER judge anyone or group or nation by its worst moments or people, only by its best -- and for the world, there have been tens of millions more of those moments and people from America. America created the modern world after WWII.

One example of the 'Kornetzke historical stupidity': If the U.S. hadn't invented, built and distributed the Internet infrastructure of the planet, its literal neural system, Kornetzke wouldn't have had the media means to sloppily flog America with its worst leader in its history.

[The Roux Comes First]

31. I Believe That with Significant Effort It Is Possible to Support Both Our Love of Our Country

And what to me are very constructive and valid criticisms of the tremendous blind spots we have always nurtured and often been afraid to address straight-on.

So, speaking of straight-on, I strongly disagree with you. If I read you accurately, this line of thinking is a good part of what has many people whining and fretting that we dare take down memorials and statues venerating the racist slave-monger confederate generals. Sure, let them pretend that war was not related to slavery! That is only one exemplar.

[ancianita]

32. Well, straight on back, Koentetzke says this country

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has ALWAYS been what he describes in its 250 year existence. So you generally agree with him? Then both of you lack accurate historical perspective.

[The Roux Comes First]

33. No, My Sense of My Homeland Is Nowhere Near THAT Dark! I Just Feel That It Is Critical to Be Critical

And not indulge the sort of attitude embodied in the "love it or leave it" school of the '60's and '70's. We have certainly evolved and grown, from a time when speaking out against the Vietnam war was seemingly treasonous for many. Now, alas, we merely have millions who voted (again!) for a thug who never matured beyond elementary school and finds it treasonous to even criticize him.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

25. Reminder: the Trump VOTERS are the real problem.

[riversedge]

26. "Behod, a festering carc-ass.." YES, that is Trump!!

[Hassler]

27. Pretty much nails it. Hey, America, we aren't exceptional

[Frasier Balzov]

28. I wouldn't insult T's suit though.

The suit is probably very sorry for the unfortunate circumstance it finds itself in.

[democrank]

29. Highly recommended

Words well chosen

[Hugin]

30. "... paraded like a prize hog at a county fair."

I suppose that’s the part of this whole shitty era that galls me the most. Every corpuscle of the American media is laser focused 24/7 on the burning dumpster’s tiniest emission. There’s a whole world of other stuff going on out there. Find it. Report it.

[Paladin]

35. I hope Kornetzke's description is still being quoted, generations from now. (nt)

Outstanding depiction of the sort of malignant depravity we're up against---just when our efforts seem to be paying off. Nice timing.

[GiqueCee]

36. To paraphrase a post I saw here some time ago...

...that also perfectly describes Trump: "It's as if someone scraped everything bad about America off the floor of a gas station restroom, stuffed it into a rancid sausage skin, and taught it to make noises with its face."

[Kid Berwyn]

37. Very close.

Trump, at essence, is a traitor.

[QueerDuck]

38. Gaht DAMM!!

That's great! Thank you very much! Perfect!

[sheshe2]

39. You are most welcome.

[Beartracks]

40. Perfect 10. No notes.

[IcyPeas]

41. Pick a phrase. Make a sign for the next No Kings rally.

The festering carcass of American rot [with picture of him]

the gluttony of a parasite [with a picture ]

spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. [With a pic ]

These descriptions of him are grotesquely accurate.

[sheshe2]

43. Excellent Idea!

[GAJMac]

42. Damn!

I wish my command of our native tongue came within the same galaxy as this. Well said sir, well said!

[Aristus]

44. Perfect.

I would hope It would read this. But he wouldn’t understand it even if he could.