# 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:** 236
**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:** [March 14, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4702 "2024-03-14T14:53:06Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > I would not be the least bit surprised if Don is turning over and over in his head right now how he can somehow circumvent this from happening I doubt either of us would’ve been surprised if he’d turned it over and over in his head four years ago, or eight years ago — but he unsurprisingly wound up with a running mate both times, just like he in fact wound up nominating people to the Supreme Court the same way he wound up putting folks in cabinet posts, and AFAICT not saying anything bad about any of them so long as they stayed on his good side. Which, granted, leads me to figure he’s going to opt for fawning yes-men and yes-women who’ll talk about how great he is while doing as he says, and who get praised by him for doing so — but which, again, leaves me figuring this or that one of ‘em could try later what they can’t do until he’s out of the picture: sing his praises while making a successful play for the top job. Imagine a Republican runs for president while saying Trump is awful, and while Trump is running; figure the MAGA types will back Trump; figure the generic Republican loses. Imagine another one goes up against Trump while saying Trump is great? Figure MAGA types will back Trump; figure that generic Republican loses too. But once Trump is out of the picture — what? Figure someone who got their praises sung by Trump says the guy was great, and runs against a generic Republican who says Trump was awful; what happens? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4703 "2024-03-14T15:06:01Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > Three different drivers went on and on about how great Trump was and how Belgium needed a Trump Yes! I’ve heard this in places from Ireland to Malaysia. Bizarre. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4704 "2024-03-14T15:09:23Z")
In some ways the phenomenon can be explained because Trump has become a blank slate were anyone who is fed up with the current situation in their country (so 90% of the population) can project their hopes for change, any sort of change, away from “business as usual”. That that change would be for the worse, and that Trump’s abhorrent ideas would probably not mesh with the person’s own ideals does not register. (In other ways the explanation is that unfortunately there seems to be a global rightward movement in the political spectrum ) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4705 "2024-03-14T15:15:21Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Trump has become a blank slate Bring a sharpie. Sorry, hope everyone has already eaten. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4706 "2024-03-14T15:16:51Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > Three different drivers went on and on about how great Trump was and how Belgium needed a Trump. So, can foreigners run to be King of Belgium? ---
**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:** [March 14, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4707 "2024-03-14T15:27:55Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Yes! I’ve heard this in places from Ireland to Malaysia. Bizarre. Well, stupid people everywhere are hearing the same lies, and falling for them. I got into it with one guy at my local pub a few months back, when he started spewing all the anti-trans talking points. Not a single original thought in his head, he just believed every lie the right wing was telling him. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4708 "2024-03-14T15:38:06Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > (In other ways the explanation is that unfortunately there seems to be a global rightward movement in the political spectrum ) Heavily facilitated by one V. Putin. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4709 "2024-03-14T15:42:23Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Yes! I’ve heard this in places from Ireland to Malaysia. Bizarre. They’re welcome to him. Where can we stash Trump that he’ll do the least damage? ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4710 "2024-03-14T15:52:24Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Where can we stash Trump that he’ll do the least damage? My vote is Belgium. They once went nearly two years without a government. So you’d have a neutered, angry Trump doing, what? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4711 "2024-03-14T15:56:33Z")
Belgium is famous for chocolate and fries. He can do that. I’ll even buy it for him. Should keep him busy until he keels over. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4712 "2024-03-14T16:01:54Z")
Must be nice, being able to buy a whole country like that. Only problem is, Trump will be annoyed at you being as rich as he pretends to be. 😃 ---
**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:** [March 14, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4713 "2024-03-14T16:16:56Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > So, can foreigners run to be King of Belgium? Once [I was the King of Spain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF3JfiexLVA) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4714 "2024-03-14T16:21:28Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > My vote is Belgium. I live five minutes from the Belgian border. Don’t you dare put him there. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4715 "2024-03-14T16:25:42Z")
This makes me very happy. > **[Republican group to spend $50 million in 6 swing states to defeat Trump -...](https://news.yahoo.com/republican-group-spend-50-million-234147277.html)** > > A $50 million outreach campaign launched Tuesday by a Republican political action committee aims to reach people in key swing states to showcase GOP voters who won't again vote for former President Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4716 "2024-03-14T16:27:03Z")
Now Trump eats humble pie. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4717 "2024-03-14T16:33:18Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > If it wasn’t because pets cannot stand him I bet Trump would be thinking about naming his pet VP. Trump doesn’t _have_ a pet. Unless you count Lindsey Graham. His was the first White House in my lifetime, I think, that didn’t have a cat or a dog. I think Trump would’ve been jealous of the attention it would have drawn. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4718 "2024-03-14T16:37:05Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I think Trump would’ve been jealous of the attention it would have drawn. It’s more like he can’t see the point, a pet brings it’s owner no material benefit and needs care and attention. In Trump’s soulless mind there is no justification for a pet. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4719 "2024-03-14T16:39:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > His was the first White House in my lifetime, I think, that didn’t have a cat or a dog. Exactly correct. > **[United States presidential pets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_pets)** > > Most United States presidents have kept pets while in office, or pets have been part of their families. Only James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson, and Donald Trump did not have any presidential pets while in office. However, Johnson did take care of some mice he found in his bedroom. > The first White House dog to receive regular newspaper coverage was Warren G. Harding's dog Laddie Boy. > Pets also featured in presidential elections. Herbert Hoover got a "Belgian Police Dog" (Belgian Malinois), King Tu... ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4720 "2024-03-14T16:42:20Z")
America First by way of Belgium. Tough luck. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/4721 "2024-03-14T16:52:50Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > His was the first White House in my lifetime, I think, that didn’t have a cat or a dog. It looks like, in all of American history, it’s just Donald Trump and the nearly impeached Democratic President, Andrew Johnson, for trying to accept the Confederate states back into the Union without condition, and welcoming Confederate leaders into the Federal government. The 14th Amendment was passed in response. > **[United States presidential pets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_pets)** > > Most United States presidents have kept pets while in office, or pets have been part of their families. Only James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson, and Donald Trump did not have any presidential pets while in office. However, Johnson did take care of some mice he found in his bedroom. > The first White House dog to receive regular newspaper coverage was Warren G. Harding's dog Laddie Boy. > Pets also featured in presidential elections. Herbert Hoover got a "Belgian Police Dog" (Belgian Malinois), King Tu... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250.md?page=235) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250.md?page=237)