# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 20, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175 "2025-01-20T19:23:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 100
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1981 "2025-11-14T01:15:08Z")
Senator Leghorn seems prepared for life after Trump. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m5k5e4xapv2z)** > > HUNT: Do you think President Trump is a lame duck? > > SEN. KENNEDY: Well, he can't run again. Yes. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m5k5622swz2d)** > > Sen. John Kennedy on Epstein: "I just don't think this issue is gonna go away until it's addressed and answered to the American people's satisfaction. And I may end up with a Sombrero on my head for saying that, but that's the way I see it." ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1982 "2025-11-14T01:21:02Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > And I may end up with a Sombrero on my head for saying that, but that’s the way I see it. I think he’s saying that he wants to party with Boebert. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G4sD0JxasAAf8Bl.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G4sD0JxasAAf8Bl.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1983 "2025-11-14T01:51:41Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I think he’s saying that he wants to party with Boeber I’m pretty sure he’s referring to the AI video of Hakeem Jeffries with a sombrero and handlebar mustache that Trump retreated last month. > **[Trump posts racist, AI-generated video of Schumer and Jeffries ahead of...](https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/politics/trump-ai-generated-video-schumer-jeffries-shutdown)** > > As the US government barrels toward a shutdown, President Donald Trump shared a racist video on social media, which appears to be AI-generated, depicting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero and a mustache and Senate Minority... ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1984 "2025-11-14T02:44:14Z")
Meanwhile, Trump has broken his over 24 hour social media silence in order to (checks notes) promote the new book by former WWE wrestler Brodus “Tons of Funk” Clay. > **[Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115205301127455058)** > > It was my Great Honor to write the Foreword for George “Tyrus” Murdoch’s (Is he related to Rupert Murdoch?) new Book, “WHAT IT IS, AMERICA.” I have been fortunate in getting to know Tyrus, and he is a very smart and talented guy — And also a very... ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1985 "2025-11-14T03:25:10Z")
Given the coherence of that twuth, I speculate that it might have been written by the person who actually wrote the forward to Murdoch’s book (i.e. not Trump). I’m not seeing this a proof of life. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1986 "2025-11-14T04:15:30Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Maybe, maybe not. He has reportedly made billions since then by engaging in cryptocurrency fraud. I also take it practically as a given that he’s stolen billions of dollars of Federal funds by now. Maybe hundreds of billions. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1987 "2025-11-14T05:28:23Z")
The statue of trump and Epstein holding hands frolicking is back up again, after being removed twice already. > **[Statue of Trump-Epstein holding hands reappears in DC after being torn down...](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-epstein-statue-washington-dc-b2864829.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=exchange&tblci=GiDcD9tCCvjQ1GeVMTGby4JIfPntEGinG4npThceB3i1GyDj3U8olPXNuY-s0pnAATCvlj4#tblciGiDcD9tCCvjQ1GeVMTGby4JIfPntEGinG4npThceB3i1GyDj3U8olPXNuY-s0pnAATCvlj4)** > > The statue drew national attention after being removed from the National Mall and has popped up yet again outside a restaurant in the capital ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1988 "2025-11-14T06:27:28Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Senator Leghorn seems prepared for life after Trump. Good lord, does a nervous tic extend to uncontrolled blinking? If I had epilepsy, it might have been triggered by all that flashing coming from his blinking. That was not healthy blinking. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1989 "2025-11-14T08:43:14Z")
> [@solost](#): > > [Epstein repeatedly mentioned Trump in newly disclosed emails](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-epstein-emails-house-democrats-release-rcna243426) > > > …of course [trump] knew about the girls. > > > > – Jeffrey Epstein email Of course there are new revelations… but America wants to know: “Was there stuffing?” > **[Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump during president's first term in...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-thanksgiving/)** > > President Donald Trump's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continued into his first term in the White House, so much so that Epstein spent Thanksgiving with Trump while the president was in office, according to newly released... ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1990 "2025-11-14T09:33:28Z")
And yet Epstein didn’t seem to think very highly of Trump, calling him “borderline insane”, “evil beyond belief”, “truly stupid” and “not one decent cell in his body”. Of course, Trump supporters will spin this as Epstein being resentful of how good and godly Trump truly is. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1991 "2025-11-14T16:05:20Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > And yet Epstein didn’t seem to think very highly of Trump, calling him “borderline insane”, “evil beyond belief”, “truly stupid” and “not one decent cell in his body”. Epstein made it rich by sucking up to rich people and somehow convincing them that he was a genius financial planner of some sort. Actually liking those people was not a requirement, and probably helped him as he made millions off them. Actually liking them might have slowed down his transfers of wealth into his own pockets. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1992 "2025-11-14T17:25:57Z")
I guess the big picture of it all is that Epstein and Trump were still chummy up to 2019, then Trump had Epstein arrested and then killed, right? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1993 "2025-11-14T17:30:08Z")
That’s the cut-to-the-chase way of describing it, yes. Factual. Consise. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1994 "2025-11-14T17:42:39Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I guess the big picture of it all is that Epstein and Trump were still chummy up to 2019, then Trump had Epstein arrested and then killed, right? I think we’ve all experienced a friendship that goes badly at some point. It happens. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1995 "2025-11-14T18:45:15Z")
Please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1996 "2025-11-14T19:31:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who. Say what you want about Jeffrey Epstein, but at least he rid the world of one child rapist. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1997 "2025-11-14T19:33:15Z")
Who would have thought that the President who admitted he [sold American troop to Saudi Arabia for a billion dollars](https://x.com/Acyn/status/1215836306162372608?t=o_KzUGKoxUGElfzbKx4Eyw&s=19) would involve himself in something so shady as killing his friend, the child predator? ---
**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:** [November 14, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1998 "2025-11-14T19:59:22Z")
He really doesn’t have any idea how much the US military actually costs, does he? A billion dollars is a drop in the bucket. Bargain basement battalions. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1999 "2025-11-14T22:05:30Z")
I don’t believe for a second that Epstein was the guy that killed Epstein. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2000 "2025-11-14T22:14:57Z")
But Video _did_ kill the Radio Star. Cite: Billy Squire [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175.md?page=99) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175.md?page=101)