# 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:** 58
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1141 "2023-08-04T15:33:29Z")
Was there a ketchup incident? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1142 "2023-08-04T15:56:20Z")
She didn’t call the poor baby “Mr. President.” Awwwww. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1143 "2023-08-04T17:53:30Z")
i gotta admit, this reporting made me smile. one of the reporters said you could see him react every time she said “mr trump”. i don’t believe there was time on the flight for a meal. perhaps later when describing his day over dinner. joy reid actually used the word schadenfreude last night during the coverage. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1144 "2023-08-04T18:02:23Z")
I’m sure that if Trump was hungry, there would’ve been a meal. It’s his plane, it’s not like he’s flying commercial. And I bet it only takes him 10 minutes to inhale a burnt steak slathered in ketchup. I don’t see him as type that savors his food. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1145 "2023-08-04T21:04:07Z")
Well, maybe he’d slow down for his beautiful chocolate cake with two scoops of ice cream – can’t eat that too fast, he’d get an ice cream headache. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2023, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1146 "2023-08-04T21:50:43Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > not only did the judge arrive after the appointed time, she called him “mr trump”. reports are he was “hopping mad” on the way back to nj. Oh, he’s just going to love his new title, _Prisoner 45_. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1147 "2023-08-04T22:10:21Z")
Looks like more challenges for Donnie. [They’re getting the Atlanta courthouse ready for Fani Willis’ indictment of Trump for “vote-finding.”](https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4137503-streets-closing-around-atlanta-courthouse-where-trump-may-be-indicted/amp/) Of course, the phone call was perfect, so I don’t see that Trump will have any problem. /s ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1148 "2023-08-04T22:23:10Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Oh, he’s just going to love his new title, _Prisoner 45_. **I’m not a number! I’m a _Wee_man!** ---
**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:** [August 5, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1149 "2023-08-05T13:05:16Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > An example of life imitates art. The good judge beat The Onion to the punch. > > [Trump Campaign Worried There Might Not Be Enough Indictments To Meet All Fundraising Goals](https://www.theonion.com/trump-campaign-worried-there-might-not-be-enough-indict-1850692369) I just saw a clip on the news of trump talking at a podium, presumably at one of his ubiquitous rallies:“we need one more indictment to close out this election”. So trump reality has officially imitated an Onion article. ETA: it was a fundraiser for the Alabama Repub party ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1150 "2023-08-05T18:26:31Z")
If somehow trump got sideways with the IRS and they came after him hard, and he whined about how he’s taking all the heat for ordinary citizens, that’d probably up his popularity among Rs to near 100%. And he’d get a decent fraction of centrists. We have (read “the propagandists have fostered”) a culture of whiny “they’re all picking on me! Waaah!!!” crybabies. Who’ll totally follow trump tilting at the IRS, everyman’s favorite bogeyman. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1151 "2023-08-05T18:42:48Z")
Yeah, hope this doesn’t have to be the way to bring Trump down, though it worked against Al Capone. But although Trump has the criminal mind of a mobster, he’s fortunately too dumb to be secretive about his crimes, thus all those indictments coming in. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1152 "2023-08-05T18:53:50Z")
And not violent enough to kill off witnesses. At least not yet. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1153 "2023-08-05T19:56:30Z")
Dopey Donald releases an ad in which he dubs special counsel Jack Smith, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and New York Attorney Genera Letitia James [“The Fraud Squad”](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/5/2185460/-Trump-s-Pathetic-Welcome-to-the-Fraud-Squad-Meme-Doesn-t-Mean-What-He-Thinks-it-Means). Well, yes, that’s an accurate label. A “homicide squad” catches and arrests murderers, a “vice squad” catches and arrests pimps and drug dealers, so naturally a “fraud squad” would catch and arrest people like Cheato. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2023, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1154 "2023-08-06T03:10:35Z")
If the well-polished shoes fit…. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2023, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1155 "2023-08-06T04:56:14Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Trump has the criminal mind of a mobster Correction: Tan the Conman has the criminal _ambition_ of a mobster. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > And not violent enough to kill off witnesses. At least not yet. He’s already instigated violence that got people killed. And he’s riling up the same crowd or other people just like those violent idiots. > [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Dopey Donald releases an ad in which he dubs special counsel Jack Smith, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and New York Attorney Genera Letitia James [“The Fraud Squad”](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/5/2185460/-Trump-s-Pathetic-Welcome-to-the-Fraud-Squad-Meme-Doesn-t-Mean-What-He-Thinks-it-Means). > > Well, yes, that’s an accurate label. A “homicide squad” catches and arrests murderers, a “vice squad” catches and arrests pimps and drug dealers, so naturally a “fraud squad” would catch and arrest people like Cheato. I do believe my brother-in-law, the homicide squad detective, would appreciate your appraisal. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2023, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1156 "2023-08-06T05:37:46Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Dopey Donald releases an ad in which he dubs special counsel Jack Smith, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and New York Attorney Genera Letitia James [“The Fraud Squad”](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/5/2185460/-Trump-s-Pathetic-Welcome-to-the-Fraud-Squad-Meme-Doesn-t-Mean-What-He-Thinks-it-Means) Holy hannah! The opening paragraph of that linked item doesn’t pull any punches. Neither does the rest of it. If Mr. Trump (sorry, Donnie, you’re just a plain “Mister” now; y’know like the judge referred to you in court) has read it, I’m sure there are a few ketchup-stained walls. The opening paragraph: > [@](#): > > Poor Donald Trump. He is convinced that he is social media’s top influencer and the Internet’s premiere meme artist. But to the contrary, he is a pitiful geezer barking at his glassy-eyed cult followers on his floundering Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, which is hemorrhaging both cash and users as it struggles to avoid the mounting legal turmoil that is threatening its extinction. The item just gets better from there for schadenfreude fans. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1157 "2023-08-06T12:11:25Z")
[Trump’s facing possible trouble in his New York fraud trail for _not_ having the documents that he should.](https://www.businessinsider.com/document-trouble-trump-ny-may-seek-sanctions-for-spoliation-evidence-2023-8) That’s weird irony or something. Basically he didn’t hand over the business records that a company of his size should have kept and that witnesses say he has in files in Trump Tower. This means the judge can infer that he destroyed or hid them. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2023, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1158 "2023-08-06T12:17:53Z")
Buried beneath or in a casket??? Another possibility. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1159 "2023-08-06T12:38:05Z")
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-2/984250/1160 "2023-08-06T13:35:15Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > And not violent enough to kill off witnesses. At least not yet. > > He’s already instigated violence that got people killed. And he’s riling up the same crowd or other people just like those violent idiots Agree completely about the mobs. But …There’s a difference between riling up a mob via tweet and ordering your employees to arrange a hit on a specific named target. The latter is what I was referring to. Loser donald is utterly amoral. But there’s still a lot of daylight between rabble-rousing and a mafia-style hit. [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=57) [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=59)