# 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:** 92
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1824 "2021-06-18T16:55:42Z")
Trump is so angry and mystified about why Black voters don’t like him. Wahhhhhhh > ‘I Made Juneteenth Very Famous’: The Inside Story of Trump’s Post-George Floyd Month [‘I Made Juneteenth Very Famous’: The Inside Story of Trump’s Post-George Floyd Month - POLITICO](https://politi.co/3wFfY6K) via @politico ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1825 "2021-06-18T17:13:30Z")
The St. Louis couple who waved guns at BLM protesters must pay a fine and give up those guns. [https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mccloskeys-plead-guilty-misdemeanor-charges](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mccloskeys-plead-guilty-misdemeanor-charges) ---
**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:** [June 18, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1826 "2021-06-18T20:20:12Z")
Big deal. They’ll just go out and buy more, and won’t even have to wait for their promised pardon from the governor. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1827 "2021-06-18T20:34:55Z")
Admittedly, as a white guy I wasn’t familiar with Juneteenth or the Tulsa riots until Trump had the tone-deaf idea of holding a rally at the intersection of the two during a time of racial strife. So in some sense he did make Juneteenth famous, in the same way that Custer made the little bighorn river famous. Also pro-tip: if you are worried about the blacks f------ hating you, a good first step would be to stop referring to them as “the blacks”. ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1828 "2021-06-21T06:46:08Z")
I think this belongs here because the mom is spot on albeit a few years too late: “If he gets 20 years in prison, he’ll be 70 years old before he gets out of there. Trump doesn’t care about any of those people that stormed the Capitol for him. He doesn’t care one iota about them.” > **[Capitol attacker's mother sobs on CNN: I despise the person that he is now --...](https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-attackers-mom-breaks-down/)** > > CNN continues its reporting on Capitol attackers and the things that led them to bring violence to the legislative body on Jan. 6. Speaking to a series of true believers about the myths that inspired their riots, one man claimed that former President... ---
**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:** [June 21, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1829 "2021-06-21T22:52:14Z")
> [@mistymage](#): > > I think this belongs here because the mom is spot on albeit a few years too late: > > “If he gets 20 years in prison, he’ll be 70 years old before he gets out of there. Trump doesn’t care about any of those people that stormed the Capitol for him. He doesn’t care one iota about them.” . I watched that interview (in the CNN special—well worth anyone’s time). What is particularly devastating is that the mother has leukemia. She may not have a long time to live and yet her son is estranged from her, choosing Trump over her. Really, really awful stuff. All the show’s interviews with the Trump fans/Capitol invaders, and their relatives, are deeply affecting. There’s a pattern of the interviewer presenting them with facts, and the people just saying, basically, _'facts don’t matter, what matters is the way I feel when Trump talks about the Mexicans being rapists and the Black Lives Matter people being thugs_’ etc. Just overt attraction to white supremacy and overt distaste for truth. It’s actually difficult to feel schadenfreude about the people interviewed, willfully and stubbornly ignorant as they are. Genuine pity combined with genuine contempt gets closer to it. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1830 "2021-06-22T12:31:25Z")
Awwwwww poor liddle’ twumpy got all butt hurt by SNL while he was pres. Glad to hear how much they got under his thin skin. > **[Trump Wanted His Justice Department to Stop ‘SNL’ From Teasing Him](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wanted-his-justice-department-to-stop-snl-from-teasing-him)** > > “SNL” amounted to “nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials,” Trump tweeted in 2018, pondering whether his thought “should be tested in courts, can’t be legal?” ---
**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:** [June 22, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1831 "2021-06-22T13:28:13Z")
Heheheheh. > **[Pressure mounts on Trump Organization CFO to cooperate against Donald Trump |...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/21/politics/weisselberg-trump-organization/index.html)** > > The Trump Organization's chief financial officer is staring down a decision: whether to cooperate with prosecutors against former President Donald Trump and the Trump Organization or potentially face criminal tax-related charges. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1832 "2021-06-23T02:16:25Z")
That is fucking amazing. Stop and take a moment to appreciate that. Trump tried to sic the Justice Department on those hard hitting journalists at _Saturday Night Live_. Jesus fuck, could his ego possibly be more fragile? ---
**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:** [June 23, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1833 "2021-06-23T14:45:27Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > That is fucking amazing. Stop and take a moment to appreciate that. Trump tried to sic the Justice Department on those hard hitting journalists at _Saturday Night Live_ . Jesus fuck, could his ego possibly be more fragile? Can he be banished by invoking his True Name “Trumpelthinskin”? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1834 "2021-06-23T15:42:54Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > Jesus fuck, could his ego possibly be more fragile? Whenever anyone asks that question, I remind them that Spy Magazine made fun of his short fingers way back in 1987, and he’s still seething about it. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1835 "2021-06-23T16:00:15Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Can he be banished by invoking his True Name “Trumpelthinskin”? Just don’t say Trumpelgeuse three times… ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1836 "2021-06-23T16:36:44Z")
I swear, he ran for president only because Obama made fun of him at that White House Correspondents’ dinner. This whole 5-year nightmare is due to his thin skin. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1837 "2021-06-23T16:49:04Z")
I think he ran because ABC canceled his stupid show The Apprentice. He has to have adoring fans. He has to have ‘air’ time. I don’t think he or anyone thought he would win, and when he lost, he was going to try to start his own TeeVee network that would out FOX FOX with horseshit. The next in a series of Trump failures. Oh, and Putin played him like a drum. Not much of a gamble on Putin’s part cause he knows what a fuck up he is. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1838 "2021-06-23T17:38:21Z")
The story I remember hearing was that he was pissed off that NBC was paying Christina Aguilera more money for “The Voice” than he was getting for “The Apprentice”, and that’s why he decided to run for Pres. But what amazes me is how his followers see him as this strong authority figure when all he is is a whiny fucking cry-baby. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1839 "2021-06-23T18:45:09Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > But what amazes me is how his followers see him as this strong authority figure when all he is is a whiny fucking cry-baby. A weak mans’ idea of a strong man. A poor man’s idea of a rich man. A whiny cry babies idea of an authority figure. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1840 "2021-06-23T23:09:07Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > That is fucking amazing. Stop and take a moment to appreciate that. Trump tried to sic the Justice Department on those hard hitting journalists at _Saturday Night Live_ . Jesus fuck, could his ego possibly be more fragile? This is the Republican ideal of a “tough guy” who “tells it like it is”. Pathetic, but then again, Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1841 "2021-06-24T01:34:07Z")
Pete Davidson Remembers Donald Trump Faking a Phone Call at _SNL_ > **[Pete Davidson Remembers Donald Trump Faking a Phone Call at SNL Table Read](https://www.vulture.com/2018/05/pete-davidson-remembers-donald-trump-faking-a-call-at-snl.html)** > > The president allegedly picked up a phone that wasn’t ringing to hear the news that his book was “No. 1.” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1842 "2021-06-24T01:49:45Z")
It’s not trivial. It’s scary. That is the classic mindset of the authoritarian leader, whom no-one is allowed to criticise, and can be punished by the full authority of the state for doing so. By contrast, there is a story that a fellow was waiting in the White House to meet with President Jefferson. The waiting room, as is always the case, had newspapers for those who waited. The fellow started reading one of the papers, and it had a scurrilous, scandalous attack on Jefferson in it. When he finally met with Jefferson, he showed him the paper asked him why such a rag was in the waiting area. Jefferson handed the paper back to to him, and said, “Tell everyone where you found it.” ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/1843 "2021-06-24T04:00:55Z")
THIS! I’ve said the same thing. A Black man?? More famous than me?? Making fun??? It’s probably the only reason he left the Dem party too. [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=91) [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=93)