# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 2)

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**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")\
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And her father and sister live here - the only people I suspect she cares about other than Barron.

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> [@smithsb](#):
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> She and Barron could go back to Slovenia.

Oh.  
I thought Barron was getting groomed as The Next One.  
Down in Florida. Or something.

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Indications are that she’s against that.

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Ah yes.

> **[Trump's youngest son Barron 'declines' to be RNC delegate, his mother Melania...](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68992293)**
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> The former US president's youngest child, 18, has "prior commitments", according to his mother.

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She’s more than happy to profit off of right wing nuttery but doesn’t want to let her son actually be part of it. That totally makes sense.

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And I think she just got another big fat reason to keep him as far away from that mess as possible.

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> > [@romansperson](#):
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> > Close but no cigar?
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> Wasn’t that Bill Clinton?

Nah. Clinton was _Close with a cigar_.

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Well, he was at a recent rally, raising his fist and soaking in all the applause. Supposedly, trump has plans for Barron and the maga dynasty. But the shooting may change things.

> **[The Barron Fist Pump That Reveals Donald Trump’s Plan for a MAGA Dynasty](https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-barron-fist-pump-which-reveals-donald-trumps-plan-to-make-a-dynasty)**
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> The former president’s eldest son Don Jr. had seemed like MAGA royalty—but in young Barron, Donald Trump may have found his true heir.

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Ah - it’s only now I noticed that BBC article I posted was from May. Meanwhile, from a week ago (from Daily Beast article):

> [@](#):
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> Former Melania Trump White House Chief of staff [Stephanie Grisham told DailyMail.com](http://dailymail.com/): “He’s statesmanlike. It’s almost like royalty."

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> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#):
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> “He’s statesmanlike. It’s almost like royalty."

[![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/punchout/images/3/31/King_hippo.gif) ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/punchout/images/3/31/King_hippo.gif)

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Looks like trials aren’t the only thing Donny has trouble staying awake for.

> <https://x.com/AZgraceJMC/status/1813067991048987103>

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😆 The attribution, there - not the craziest about it. Sure, more or less quick to figure out, but still coulda maybe used a little tightening up there. 🙂

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I made sure the quotation marks were there, I absolutely do not want anyone thinking it was your opinion!!!

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Yeah right - you just put those quotes there to make it look like I was talking to the reporter, you sneaky sneak!

All’s good, thanks for the post.

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Conservative twitter says he was pretending to pray there. Well, I added ‘pretending’.

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Maybe it’s time to lay off the sauce, Rudy?

> <https://x.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1813325892585939421>

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Well, TBF, the woman to his above right unclasped her hands at the same time Trump opened his eyes and the man behind him started moving again. Both had been motionless during the time Trump’s eyes were closed, as they would be in prayer.

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[Confirmed](https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/trumps-eyes-were-closed-during-prayer-rnc-he-was-not-asleep-2024-07-17/) that it was Trump attempting to look like he was praying.

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There’s a first time for everything . . . apparently.

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> <https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1813765909070143836>

Maybe he was praying his damn kid would shut up.

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