# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8086
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/8086 "2022-12-13T22:14:26Z")
Not wanting to reignite the ire of the Mods in the Mar-a-Lago thread, but not willing to relinquish the challenge of [finding an appropriate German term for the inevitable Trump-enabler fate of being “thrown under the bus”,](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-08-08-22/969329/4320) I figured that this would be the best place to remark: - German has already adopted the English idiom “to throw under the bus” in the form "unter den Bus werfen," past participial construction “unter den Bus geworfen”. - There is (sadly) a widely used and somewhat parallel native German construction “vor den Zug werfen”, “to throw [e.g., oneself] in front of a train”, past participial form sometimes occurring as “Zug vorgeworfen”. - So I propose, subject to correction by more knowledgeable German speakers, the compound participle “Busuntergeworfen” “thrown under the bus”. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537)._