Comedian Christopher Titus offered a “Armageddon update” in a no-holds-barred edition of his YouTube program that seemed more like a frantic eyewitness testimony from a dystopian political circus than a typical monologue. Titus examined the early years of an administration he described as run by a “convicted felon,” who treats executive orders like his own playground, using his signature mix of sarcastic wit and unabashed disrespect.

“I’m Christopher Titus and this is the Armageddon update,” Titus’s said in a Raw way, when opening the program, instantly launching a barrage of attacks directed against the president’s latest activities. Titus compared the rush of executive orders—issued without appropriate review or respect for constitutional standards—to a baby given the keys to a semi- truck loaded with a nuclear. In his vivid analogy, the young child “cut the brake lines, threw the steering wheel in a ditch, and then decided to put a cinder block on the gas pedal,” so depicting an image of chaotic, reckless government endangering the very fabric of the country.

Titus never stopped offering his Titus’s Raw observations. While people were feeling the pinch—gas costs had soared by 21 cents and eggs were up 35%—the president seemed apathetic to the daily hardships of people who had voted for him. “We have never had a president literally who does not show a [expletive] about any of the people that elected him,” Titus said, stressing what he saw to be a hazardous gulf separating the public from the administration.

The episode’s running topic was the ridiculousness of the presidential policy decisions. Recalling the president’s evasive remark, “Well, you’re going to have to ask Russia,,” Titus laughed at the idea that the war in Ukraine may be ended quickly. Titus’s trademark caustic wit allowed him to accuse the president of lying to “stay out of jail,” therefore highlighting the show’s larger criticism of political dishonesty.

The show did not spare a poke at ideas that defined the establishment of the country. Titus attacked the decision to revoke birthright citizenship, pointing out that someone who, in his opinion, had little respect for the fundamental ideals of the nation was discarding this constitutional cornerstone. He spun a darkly funny story around the president’s background, criticizing the irony of a first-generation status set against an ancestry including a “sweet potato Hitler” figure—an absurd, provocative image meant to question the validity of the policies being proposed.

Titus’s Raw critique of presidential orders carried on with his perspective on the choice to pull the United States from the World Health Organization. Pointing out the irony of a country that prides itself on being a world leader choosing to quit an institution tasked with monitoring lethal viruses and defending public health, he mixed disbelief with sarcasm. In a particularly odd moment, he related the president’s strange directive for California to “turn on the valve,” for water—a command so meaningless Titus had to stop and consider, “There’s no valve—what’s the point?”

Titus’s comments on the president’s apparent inclination for policy-based score-settling were maybe most caustic. Titus claimed that the executive orders were vendettas against immigrants, trans and homosexual people, and even Muslims, not meant to further the public good or honor the accomplishments of former administrations. With a metaphor evoking memories of Nazi salutes and fascist ideas, he attacked the appointment of controversial personalities to new government agencies—a comparison that, while explosive, highlighted his annoyance with what he viewed as an ongoing assault on American principles.

Titus’s approach throughout the episode was both dark humor and part rallying cry. Comparatively to his own meager financial success, he laughed at the president’s self-aggrandizement and fortune, pointing out that the amount of money required to “zig in an arena” was beyond what most people could ever expect to have. In his summing up, he presented a dismal prediction: “This is week two. We have just four more years of this, expressing the apprehension and incredulity of a portion of the people seeing what Titus described as an almost surreal moment in American politics.

Like typical Christopher Titus, the episode presented an honest, unvarnished narrative of political unrest. For those weary of precisely calibrated political speech, his use of bombastic imagery and harsh judgment offered no relief. Rather, Titus presented a performance that was as much a call to consciousness as it was a condemnation of what he considered to be the reckless, self-serving behaviors of a president detached from the obligations of leadership.

The “Armageddon update” was a narrative of disillusionment, an unadorned account of a nation at a crossroads presented in the raw and uncompromising voice of a comedian who refuses to let politics be anything but wildly, dangerously genuine. It was not only a comic performance.