# 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:** 273
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5442 "2024-04-17T23:11:21Z")
It reminds of a certain German dictator who got rich taking his cut of his book sales and the use of his portrait on postage stamps. > **[A Rich Hitler Evaded Taxes, Magazine Says](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-01-03-mn-2155-story.html)** > > Adolf Hitler was a tax evader who became the richest man in the Nazi hierarchy, a West German magazine said Friday. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5443 "2024-04-18T15:22:25Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > Link works for me. I’ll post another highlight: > > > He (Trump’s lawyer – TF) even went so far as to bring up a meme posted eight years ago by the husband of a potential juror, which depicted former President Barack Obama next to Trump, with the caption: “I don’t think this is what they meant by Orange is the new Black.” > > > > Merchan apologized if anyone in court was offended by the joke but seemed disinclined to consider the social media habits of jurors’ family members. Nevertheless, as several journalists noted, Trump could be seen studying a printout of the meme. “He does not look amused at all,” the _Times_ [reported](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/16/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial/bea1ef06-b7be-54d8-a89c-65ff24910d38?smid=url-share). Boy, if that’s the new guardrails, my wife would be screwed. Her brother reposts MAGA crap; I post here. She (obviously) is biased towards the right _AND_ the left. BTW - “Orange is the new Black” meme. Funny. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5444 "2024-04-18T15:25:19Z")
I’ve often wondered if he’s aware that people laugh at his grooming choices. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5445 "2024-04-18T15:45:06Z")
If he is, I suspect he’s also capable of instantly forgetting it due to his immense ego. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5446 "2024-04-18T16:44:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > If he is, I suspect he’s also capable of instantly forgetting it due to his immense ego.   I remember him saying at one point in response to some criticism that his hairstyle was extremely attractive – “perfect”, just like his pumpkin-like complexion, and his phone calls and financial statements! 🤣 [![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/41FB/production/_113919861_hi045965426.jpg.webp) ](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/41FB/production/_113919861_hi045965426.jpg.webp) ---
**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:** [April 18, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5447 "2024-04-18T17:05:06Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I’ve often wondered if he’s aware that people laugh at his grooming choices. Despite Trump’s questionable financial statements, it is true that he’s generated a globally known brand name that - as Truth Social demonstrated temporarily - could be worth billions of dollars at any given moment (or, likewise, worth almost nothing as Truth Social has demonstrated - fame is fickle). He’s good at getting and keeping your attention. He may be poor at basically every other facet of running a business - he seems to have largely inherited his holdings from his dad, and he turned to questionable financial practices largely due to the debt burden imposed by constant bad business choices. But, nevertheless, he’s good at making himself and the Trump name famous. The hair is just one small attribute of that. For the record, he was a brunette, not a blonde. The interesting thing about his hair isn’t that it’s stupid, it’s that it made everyone overlook the obvious lie. He wants to associate himself with opulence and gold. As such, it’s better to be a golden-haired blonde. You’ve bought into his golden-haired majesty, unwittingly. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5448 "2024-04-18T17:13:24Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > He’s good at getting and keeping your attention. He may be poor at basically every other facet of running a business - he seems to have largely inherited his holdings from his dad, and he turned to questionable financial practices largely due to the debt burden imposed by constant bad business choices. But, nevertheless, he’s good at making himself and the Trump name famous. He makes himself famous the same way that Katy Perry’s design team makes themselves famous. I fully expect him to malfunction, self destruct, and show off a huge boob the same way. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5449 "2024-04-18T17:16:53Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > I fully expect him to malfunction, self destruct, and show off a huge boob the same way. He doesn’t need to malfunction or self-destruct. He already shows us a huge boob every single god damned day ---
**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:** [April 18, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5450 "2024-04-18T18:03:15Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > The interesting thing about his hair isn’t that it’s stupid, it’s that it made everyone overlook the obvious lie. He wants to associate himself with opulence and gold. As such, it’s better to be a golden-haired blonde. You’ve bought into his golden-haired majesty, unwittingly. I’m kind of amazed you didn’t follow up with a quip about his skin. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5451 "2024-04-18T18:33:52Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > For the record, he was a brunette, not a blonde. An older man that dyes his hair is pathetic IMO. An older man that dyes his dark hair blonde is beyond pathetic. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5452 "2024-04-18T19:08:42Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > He already shows us a huge boob every single god damned day He _is_ a huge boob. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5453 "2024-04-18T19:21:00Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > An older man that dyes his dark hair blonde is beyond pathetic. Well, I don’t think it would be dark any more, at his age its natural color is almost certainly grey. How pathetic it is to dye grey hair is up to one’s opinion. My opinion is, who cares? And is the rule different for women than men? My 76-year-old husband persists in dyeing his (originally dark-brown-to-black, now almost snowy white) hair close to its original color (taking care not to make it too dark, he was a hairdresser and knows how to do it well) just because he doesn’t want to give in to every single appearance that expresses his age. I like it. I am completely grey myself, of course, but it makes me feel younger to look at him. My 77-year-old sister, on the other hand, long since embraced her snowy hair, and takes care to keep it out of the sun so it doesn’t turn yellow. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5454 "2024-04-18T20:40:27Z")
An insult to boobs. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5455 "2024-04-19T00:45:48Z")
And yet the very definition of boobery ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5456 "2024-04-19T14:56:11Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > takes care to keep it out of the sun so it doesn’t turn yellow. I’ve had silver to white hair since I was fairly young and been out in the sun way too much (I’ve finally learned to start wearing a hat all the time) but I don’t think it’s ever turned yellow and I didn’t even know that was possible. Just looked it up and yes, white hair can turn yellow due to the sun. You learn something new every day. And, another reason to wear a hat. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5457 "2024-04-19T19:13:55Z")
> I’ll let y’all get first cracks at the jokes… ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5458 "2024-04-19T19:20:20Z")
“Here’s the _real_ gag order!” ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5459 "2024-04-19T19:21:02Z")
Now he’s gaslighting the court! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5460 "2024-04-19T19:23:40Z")
The Godfarter, Done Snoreleone… [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53665066868_a24444cd8c_b.jpg "Godfarter Don Snoreleone Trump") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/53665066868/) ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/5461 "2024-04-19T19:34:54Z")
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