# 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:** 44
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/861 "2023-07-15T23:49:13Z")
😆 🤣 Love it! ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/862 "2023-07-17T20:00:36Z")
A new article in Newsweek: [Trump Wanted Cows to Climb Ladders Over Border Wall, Ex-Staffer Says (newsweek.com)](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-wanted-cows-climb-ladders-border-wall-ex-staffer-1813402) talks about how Trump was furious when he learned that his border wall had doors that ranchers would use to allow their cattle access to the Rio Grande for grazing. If his wall had doors then it would allow Mexicans to storm into the country by the thousands! Trump had a much better idea - allow ranchers to use ladders, or even local fire company trucks, to allow the cattle to climb over the wall instead. My favorite quote from the article: " Taylor told _Newsweek_ that ‘when it comes to Trump, the truth is always vastly more idiotic than the fiction. He spent more time coming up with imbecilic ideas at the border than he did focusing on his job. Sometimes the ideas were stupid. Sometimes they were illegal. Often they were both.’" ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/863 "2023-07-17T20:03:42Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > A new article in Newsweek: [Trump Wanted Cows to Climb Ladders Over Border Wall, Ex-Staffer Says (newsweek.com)](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-wanted-cows-climb-ladders-border-wall-ex-staffer-1813402) talks about how Trump was furious when he learned that his border wall had doors that ranchers would use to allow their cattle access to the Rio Grande for grazing. If his wall had doors then it would allow Mexicans to storm into the country by the thousands! Trump had a much better idea - allow ranchers to use ladders, or even local fire company trucks, to allow the cattle to climb over the wall instead. As my wife frequently says (quoting _Hill Street Blues_) “Cows have no _down_ genes” . We discussed tthis on this Board before. It might be stupid to expect a cow to climb up a ladder, but it’s even stupider to expect themn to climb down. > [@A cow can climb up stairs...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cow-can-climb-up-stairs/613734/3): > > Yes, it’s true. It has to do with they way their legs work. Here is one explanation… “This is actually correct stating that a cow can be led upstairs but not down. The ankle and knee joints are mis-aligned for supporting the cows weight when traveling down stairs. Its not that they physically can’t, its just that it is a lot of trouble for them. Imagine walking upstairs normally, but then when you come back down the stairs you have to wear a pair of ballet shoes and walk down on your tiptoes… ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/864 "2023-07-17T20:16:04Z")
That’s a perfectly rational refutation to Trump’s idea. So instead of ladders, how about we put parachutes on the cows and toss them over the wall using a catapult or Trebuchet? ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/865 "2023-07-17T20:21:10Z")
I’m trying to imagine a ladder that a cow could climb, but a Mexican couldn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/866 "2023-07-17T20:32:39Z")
Simple - it has a sign that says “No Mexicans allowed. Cows Only.” Job done. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/867 "2023-07-17T20:33:35Z")
Even without access for cows, I have yet to see any sort of fence or wall that could not be easily defeated by a ladder or power tools. Or, in some cases, horrible incompetence: > **[They Built the Wall. Now Some in Texas Fear It May Fall Down.](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/us/texas-private-border-wall.html?unlocked_article_code=GbKpI-rWiJIJuFrd4z1vsOMr0-BXajQ3-A6hjcXmoZ3luHQghO3VhKprlbWVDWttsdOuZSvIgF2R1tSa_UsK0tV9oIcywKvg26msC8NESKRm6xesVKtBXJWXkRTIL0bWVTppPxIPu_drIPvliyhnyMxAPJEhRB8b3XakXyWKw82WcUQxScot1shOSR9-r9-byRW7n1F7JzlD_aeLYy9qET57dLDczbLVrYyOLC_rtbnaHnr15nA7G2S7WCe1upyuxSwiON9rEgiKv7coy_VXL6TPfKMSW8wo2zwNs3-48gMZdLNCO2ZTvjtT7EdSDO7Pheni8BljFR6lE-wcRL2h&smid=url-share)** > > A scandal-plagued private border fence is essentially orphaned, mostly redundant and, engineers found, at risk of floating away in a flood. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/868 "2023-07-17T20:45:20Z")
“The Wall That Became a Raft” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/869 "2023-07-17T20:49:37Z")
Apparently, in Trump’s mind, cows can climb ladders but Mexican can’t. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/870 "2023-07-17T21:03:59Z")
Because cows don’t wear sombreros. [/Trump’s stereotype, not mine] ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/871 "2023-07-17T21:09:11Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > how about we put parachutes on the cows and toss them over the wall using a catapult or Trebuchet? “Fetchez la vache!” 😁 ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/872 "2023-07-17T21:35:17Z")
Now **that’s** just silly. The sign would have to be in _Spanish_. Don’t you know _anything_?? ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/873 "2023-07-17T21:35:54Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > The sign would have to be in _Spanish_. Don’t you know _anything_?? Cows can’t read Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/874 "2023-07-17T21:39:02Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Simple - it has a sign that says “No Mexicans allowed. Cows Only.” > > Job done. You’d need to post that in “Mexican” 🙄 “No, we can’t do that, that’s surrendering to the cantalouped calved terrorists, drug dealers and criminals, _and a few 'good_ people,…” - iDJT. partial ninja, curses! ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/875 "2023-07-17T21:49:39Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > A new article in Newsweek: [Trump Wanted Cows to Climb Ladders Over Border Wall, Ex-Staffer Says (newsweek.com)](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-wanted-cows-climb-ladders-border-wall-ex-staffer-1813402) talks about how Trump was furious when he learned that his border wall had doors that ranchers would use to allow their cattle access to the Rio Grande for grazing. If his wall had doors then it would allow Mexicans to storm into the country by the thousands! Trump had a much better idea - allow ranchers to use ladders, or even local fire company trucks, to allow the cattle to climb over the wall instead. I’m going to go all skeptic here and say I don’t believe this. Nobody has ever said anything like that. Nobody is that stupid, possibly not even Trump. If this had been something similarly incredible about Biden or Obama I would ask for another witness to back it up before accepting it as truth. I just refuse to believe that I share the planet with anyone who actually said this, let alone a president. It cannot have happened. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/876 "2023-07-17T22:06:21Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > Nobody is that stupid, possibly not even Trump. You mean the guy who wanted to buy Greenland, and thought injecting bleach would cure Covid? ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/877 "2023-07-17T22:13:36Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > You mean the guy who wanted to buy Greenland, and thought injecting bleach would cure Covid? Has he steered us wrong yet? No regrets. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2023, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/878 "2023-07-17T22:16:48Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > > [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > > > Nobody is that stupid, possibly not even Trump. > > You mean the guy who wanted to buy Greenland, and thought injecting bleach would cure Covid? It does cure Covid. It just has certain side effects that most would consider unacceptable, such as horrible death, but that the Stable Genius (and bovine authority) apparently does not. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/879 "2023-07-17T22:39:38Z")
In the case of Trump, what can’t be attributed to Stupidity can be attributed to callousness. Trump only cares about the ranchers votes - not the cows. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/880 "2023-07-17T22:42:18Z")
I’m still waiting on the movie based on “Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV”. Stephen Colbert [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhZyHIZpzoM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhZyHIZpzoM) [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=43) [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=45)