# 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:** 448
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8947 "2023-02-18T01:01:37Z")
Revealed today, as part of the Dominion case: Donald Trump phoned into Fox News on January 6 (2021)-----but executives there refused to let him speak on-air: > [@](#): > > …The network rebuffed Trump because “it would be irresponsible to put him on the air” and “could impact a lot of people in a negative way,” according to Fox Business Network President Lauren Petterson, whose testimony was cited by Dominion in the new filing. … What odds Donald is still seething over this??? Poor, poor Donald… [https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/politics/fox-news-trump-january-6/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/politics/fox-news-trump-january-6/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8948 "2023-02-18T01:05:51Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Donald Trump phoned into Fox News on January 6 (2021)-----but executives there refused to let him speak on-air I’m surprised that this hasn’t come out before. The Committee spent a lot of time charging that “Trump did nothing” for hours during the insurrection. Trying to get on the air to say _something_, is an interesting fact. I tend to agree that whatever he said would make things worse. Of course, all he had to do was walk down the the pressroom, where there’s always a camera ready to broadcast anything he wants to say. But he only wanted to talk to Fox. What an ass. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8949 "2023-02-18T01:10:10Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Of course, all he had to do was walk down the the pressroom, where there’s always a camera ready to broadcast anything he wants to say. But he only wanted to talk to Fox. I think you’ve pinpointed a crucial refutation to any claims Trump might make now that he’d phoned into Fox in order to ‘promote peace’ or ‘calm the situation,’ or any other claim of intending to behave responsibly. If he’d wanted to behave responsibly, as you say, all he had to do was walk a few steps to the pressroom (and call for peace and for the attackers to go home, etc.). ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8950 "2023-02-18T02:55:12Z")
Fake news! Sorry. A bit of intestinal non-fortitude flared up and I inadvertenly channeled Tan the Conman. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8951 "2023-02-18T03:32:34Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > A bit of intestinal non-fortitude flared up and I inadvertenly channeled Tan the Conman. An unexpected reversal of “everything Trump touches turns to shit”? ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8952 "2023-02-18T03:40:49Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > If he’d wanted to behave responsibly, as you say, all he had to do was walk a few steps to the pressroom (and call for peace and for the attackers to go home, etc.). Or – y’know: Og forbid – just put out a Tweet to that effect, without ever having to set down his hamberder or actually ambulate. They had built a _gallows_ and were allegedly intent on _hanging_ his VP (et al). But … television … and phone calls to Republican Senators … trying to gin up support for The Big Lie. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8953 "2023-02-18T09:20:50Z")
Yeppers. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8954 "2023-02-18T14:28:21Z")
Couldn’t call the national guard, could call pence, could call Lou Dobbs. I figure this brief landed on jack smith’s desk. All a piece of the investigative pie. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8955 "2023-02-18T16:11:41Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Donald Trump phoned into Fox News on January 6 (2021)-----but executives there refused to let him speak on-air A prudent decision, really – if he speaks exclusively through Fox, that potentially gets them in worse trouble if he uses the platform to continue agitating the lunatics or offends their lunatic audience if he actually tries to calm things down. Maintaining some distance between the President and any given media platform to avoid that sort of problem is part of the point of having a pressroom in the first place. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8956 "2023-02-18T16:37:27Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > If there was a sport that combined curling and fucking, I would definitely watch it. Isn’t that bowling? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8957 "2023-02-18T16:52:55Z")
I gave up bowling and switched to sex. The balls are lighter and you don’t have to change your shoes. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8958 "2023-02-18T16:54:58Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I gave up bowling and switched to sex. The balls are lighter and you don’t have to change your shoes. - Same here. The bowling alley didn’t allow cleats. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8959 "2023-02-18T16:55:32Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > If there was a sport that combined curling and fucking, I would definitely watch it. I don’t even need the curling. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8960 "2023-02-18T17:00:41Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > > If there was a sport that combined curling and fucking, I would definitely watch it. > > I don’t even need the curling. - Not even the toes? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8961 "2023-02-18T18:26:05Z")
You can always have a couple people take turns spanking you with a broom. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8962 "2023-02-18T19:43:46Z")
Whappity-whappity-whappity-whappity-whappity-whappity. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8963 "2023-02-18T23:21:23Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > … Maintaining some distance between the President and any given media platform to avoid that sort of problem is part of the point of having a pressroom in the first place. Excellent point. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8964 "2023-02-19T00:35:45Z")
I managed to miss something in that, but I saw it on the news a couple of days ago and would have posted had my Internet connection stayed reliable. From [“Not an American Indian”](https://www.yahoo.com/news/ann-coulter-tells-nikki-haley-012605583.html): > “This is my country, lady,” she said. “I’m not an American Indian, and I don’t like them taking down all the monuments.” The Qliban twerp does not know the difference between Native Americans and people from India with their descendants. Also, not all of the monuments are being removed; just those celebrating the racists and traitors. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2023, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8965 "2023-02-19T03:19:55Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Does anybody believe that if Trump _did_ sign such a pledge, that he’d actually honor it? Not for a nanosecond. But if he was also required to post a bond from his own funds, though…. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8966 "2023-02-19T16:37:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > But if he was also required to post a bond from his own funds, though…. “Send us an EMERGENCY donation today! The Groomercrats are trying to game the system to keep your favorite President out of office! Trump for Trump!” [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=447) [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=449)