Append to existing Description

I need help on this powershell command
Get-ADuser -searchbase "OU=TEST, OU=Stale Accounts, DC=com" | Set-ADuser $_ -Description "disabled due to inactivity, termrpt $($_.Description)"
What I'm trying to do is add more text to the description wihout deleting the existing description.
When I run it, I get:
cmdlet Get-ADuser at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
(Type !? for Help.)
Finter:
I've spend quite some time on this, but just can't get it to work.
Any help would be greatly apprciated.

Well this is a little trickier that it would seem to the unaided eye:
Get-ADuser -filter * -searchbase 'ou=testou,dc=testnet,dc=local' -Properties Description|
foreach{
Set-ADuser $_ -Description "DISABLED:$($_.Description)"
You need to remember that the objects returned by Get-AdUser and all AD CmdLets are minimal objects. We must specify most properties beyond the few basic values. We also need to specify a filter match even when referencing a target OU.
The answer to the original error (or prompt) is to add "-filter *" to the command. Dirk is correct about needing to reset the description in a "foreach" so we have access to the pipeline variable but the "Description" variable will not be in the pipeline
unless we specify that we want it added.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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