# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 19, 2023, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250 "2023-05-19T03:20:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 146
**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:** [November 2, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2901 "2023-11-02T20:00:11Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > There are so many slam-dunk condemnations of Trump that I don’t understand why people remember “person, woman, man, camera, TV” and bring it up more than three years later. Same reason we remember “I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue” or what he said on Access Hollywood, or “how about injecting bleach?” Some of the many, many idiotic things he has said have staying power. His apparent glee in passing a dementia screening test is quite funny. And telling. (and we have only his own report that he did in fact pass.) ---
**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:** [November 2, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2902 "2023-11-02T20:04:44Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Because it concisely reminds us of Trump’s bumbling cluelessness in a humorous way. Rather like two-scoops. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2903 "2023-11-02T20:21:54Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Because it was hilarious? Yep, it’s a hilarious video. It’s also such a stupid fucking thing to brag about. He thinks he’s talking about something super impressive, and he’s so _proud_ of himself. It’s comedy gold. ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2904 "2023-11-02T20:30:28Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > He thinks he’s talking about something super impressive, and he’s so _proud_ of himself. The real question is “Did the doctors tell him he did really well on a very difficult test, and he was dumb enough to swallow it, hook, line and sinker, or did they treat passing the dementia test as a routine thing and he blew it up into inventing relativity?” I’d go with the latter. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2905 "2023-11-02T20:38:15Z")
I always figured one of his handlers, tasked with getting him to go in for the routine checkup, blew it out of proportion to stroke his ego. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2906 "2023-11-02T20:57:31Z")
Knowing the uses the same book has been put to in the last 2000 years, I’m most certainly NOT surprised. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2907 "2023-11-02T22:35:32Z")
So, I guess he gets a pass on the 3rd commandment or it’s no longer in effect, or something. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2908 "2023-11-02T23:25:20Z")
More likely they were truly flabbergasted he actually passed that test. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2909 "2023-11-03T08:58:21Z")
Plus, it didn’t hurt when the hilarious (and attractive) [Sarah Cooper](https://youtu.be/j8oaaP68i4s?si=BQEvHqi3BKRmste1) lip-synced the incident in a YouTube video. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2910 "2023-11-03T11:51:10Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > His apparent glee in passing a dementia screening test is quite funny. And telling. Yeah, this. He could have quoted the actual words used, and it still would have been funny, because this test is insultingly easy for anyone who isn’t cognitively impaired. He fundamentally doesn’t get what was being tested. So many of his other idiotisms just fade into the background noise of stupid, but sometimes, one is so singularly stupid, it rises from the swamp to become a shining beacon of slime. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2911 "2023-11-03T11:53:40Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > and he’s so _proud_ of himself. Yep, it’s like that other iconic moment, when he posed with the table full of fast food in the White House. He genuinely thought that was a great moment, and he was _just so proud_. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2912 "2023-11-03T12:30:41Z")
I’m sure the real movers and shakers in NY real-estate, the group that Donald desperately wants to be a part of are quietly snickering behind his back. Like they have done for years. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2913 "2023-11-03T12:33:19Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Yep, it’s like that other iconic moment, when he posed with the table full of fast food in the White House. He genuinely thought that was a great moment, and he was _just so proud_. I often wonder what happened to the ‘left overs’ did he give the team to-go bags? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2914 "2023-11-03T13:03:23Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > He genuinely thought that was a great moment, and he was _just so proud_. That one breaks my heart a little. I know Trump’s not a real person, but still. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2915 "2023-11-03T13:21:19Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > quietly snickering Some of them aren’t so quiet about 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:** [November 3, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2916 "2023-11-03T13:51:41Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > That one breaks my heart a little. I know Trump’s not a real person, but still. You are clearly a kind, compassionate person, but trump does _ **not** _ deserve your sympathy. Don’t waste it on him. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2917 "2023-11-03T13:54:44Z")
> [@solost](#): > > > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > > > That one breaks my heart a little. I know Trump’s not a real person, but still. > > You are clearly a kind, compassionate person, but trump does _ **not** _ deserve your sympathy. Don’t waste it on him. - That’s how she rolls. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2918 "2023-11-03T14:03:16Z")
I see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2919 "2023-11-03T14:04:18Z")
😄 Don’t worry, you guys, if I ever get a chance to do Trump dirty, I’ll take it! ---
**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:** [November 3, 2023, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/2920 "2023-11-03T14:09:45Z")
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