Australian journalist Chris Uhlmann’s scathing review of US President Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Hamburg went viral overnight. Uhlmann, the political editor at Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), spoke on the network’s Insiders programme, calling Trump “the biggest threat to the West” with “no desire and no capacity to lead the world”.

It was a savage demolition. Uhlmann critiqued the President’s foreign policies, his use of Twitter, and his responsibility in the “decline of the United States as a global leader”.

“The President of the United States has a particular skill set: that he’s identified an illness in Western democracies, but he has no cure for it and seems intent on exploiting it. And we’ve also learned that he has no desire and no capacity to lead the world,” said Uhlmann. He addresses Trump’s failure to condemn North Korea at the summit to rally other world leaders, as well as his scripted speeches.

“He’s the one man who has the power to do something about it. But it’s the unscripted Trump that’s real: a man who barks out bile in 140 characters, who wastes his precious days as president at war with the West’s institutions like the judiciary, independent government agencies and the free press.”

Trump was an “uneasy, lonely, awkward figure” at the G20, according to Uhlmann, and “a man who craves power because it burnishes his celebrity.”

He finishes by saying, “Donald Trump has pressed fast forward on the decline of the United States as a global leader. He managed to isolate his nation, to confuse and alienate his allies and to diminish America.”