# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537 "2020-11-14T00:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 256
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5107 "2022-04-26T05:35:31Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > $536,870,912 That’s (a) less than 5 billion, and (b) still off by hundreds of millions of dollars. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5108 "2022-04-26T05:36:08Z")
Pretty sure you are off by a factor of 100. I get $5,368,709.12. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5109 "2022-04-26T05:39:22Z")
Yup, forgot to convert pennies to dollars 🤦‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5110 "2022-04-26T05:40:39Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Yup, forgot to convert pennies to dollars 🤦‍♂️   Verizon math! (Now Florida math!) ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5111 "2022-04-26T13:54:32Z")
My understanding is that Gallium is even more effective, and isn’t nearly as toxic. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5112 "2022-04-26T14:01:05Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > $5,368,709.12. That would be approximately 14¾ tons of pennies. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5113 "2022-04-26T14:10:54Z")
I’m not going to roll them. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5114 "2022-04-26T15:54:09Z")
(Oh how I wish SDMB had a like button!) ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5115 "2022-04-26T16:22:30Z")
I recognize that reference ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5116 "2022-04-26T19:00:27Z")
The calculation for a doubling penny is: 2^days / 100 For example: days = 0 → 2^0 / 100 → $0.01 days = 1 → 2^1 / 100 → $0.02 days = 2 → 2^2 / 100 → $0.04 days = 3 → 2^3 / 100 → $0.08 … days = 30 → 2^30 / 100 → $10,737,418.24 … days = 64 → 2^64 / 100 → $184,467,440,737,095,516.16 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5117 "2022-04-26T19:09:58Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > The calculation for a doubling penny is: > > 2^days / 100 Depends on the exact terms of the deal. @DesertDog mentioned “Do the ol’ chess board thing” several posts above. In that scenario, the total amount after each day is the amount on the latest square PLUS the amounts on all the previous squares – it’s cumulative. If Trump were to be fined an increasing amount each day, that would presuably be how it would work: Each day he’d have to pay a new larger fine, but he’d still have to pay all the previous days’ fines too. If you started with $0.01 on Day 0 and doubled the amount each day, the cumulative total on Day n would be 2n+1 - 1 cents, or (that)/100 dollars. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5118 "2022-04-27T16:17:47Z")
Ex-Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg went, himself, to the White House to cut a deal with Dotard about renovating two jets to be AF1’s. Personally negotiated the deal himself, he did! It went as well for Boeing as you can expect: > **[CEO: Boeing Should Have Rejected Trump’s Air Force One Deal](https://www.defenseone.com/business/2022/04/ceo-boeing-should-have-rejected-trumps-air-force-one-deal/366186/)** > > The company revealed that it has lost $660 million outfitting the next presidential jets—so far. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5119 "2022-04-27T16:39:47Z")
Gah!! I hope to hell the new AF1 doesn’t have that fugly Trumpian livery! They have two choices for the paint scheme on the new AF1: the present design, an elegant and stylish collaboration between Jackie Kennedy and the world-famous industrial designer Raymond Loewy, or the fugly mess favoured by the orange shit-gibbon. The shit-gibbon has been quoted as saying he wants a design that looks “more American”. That’s right, amongst all available colours, such as red, white, or blue, nothing says “American” more than a dried-blood shade of burgundy. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5120 "2022-04-27T16:41:48Z")
It’s going to look like a whorehouse in Slovenia. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5121 "2022-04-27T17:29:37Z")
Given what they did to the Rose Garden, fugly AF1 livery is only to be expected ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5122 "2022-04-27T18:12:33Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > > [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > > > Meanwhile, Republican who committed _actual_ voter fraud escapes consquences by…dying. > > Hmmm. Same tactic Trump hopes to employ, I expect. “I’ve never wished anyone dead, but I’ve read some obituaries with a great deal of satisfaction.” - Clarence Darrow (attrib.) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5123 "2022-04-27T19:55:15Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Gah!! I hope to hell the new AF1 doesn’t have that fugly Trumpian livery! I’m perfectly willing to hate anything connected to TFG, but before I saw the picture, what I imagined from your “fugly” comment was far worse than that. I actually think it’s rather restrained, considering some of the [tastelessness](https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+gold+finishings&client=tablet-android-samsung-nf-rev1&prmd=isnv&sxsrf=APq-WBvgK05tfy1RyqhXqfG_wyLFcL7ILw:1651089067528&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi59PKKgrX3AhWemIkEHWNzBfAQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=1280&bih=800&dpr=2#imgrc=dYpQEk-bt4LcgM) TFG is associated with. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5124 "2022-04-27T19:58:08Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > fugly AF1 livery is only to be expected Air Farce One. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5125 "2022-04-27T19:59:56Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > “I’ve never wished anyone dead, but I’ve read some obituaries with a great deal of satisfaction.” - Clarence Darrow (attrib.) One of my favorite quotes, and one I think of frequently in present times. * * * > [@commasense](#): > > I’m perfectly willing to hate anything connected to TFG, but before I saw the picture, what I imagined from your “fugly” comment was far worse than that. May he never, ever have the chance to fly in either one. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/5126 "2022-04-27T21:29:06Z")
How about in cuffs from Florida to New York to face trial? I could get behind that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537.md?page=255) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537.md?page=257)