# 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:** 103
**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 19, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2041 "2025-11-19T03:50:33Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > As a non-Republican, the aggression of Donald Trump against one of his former troll-toadies who’s now done something to displease him is not even a little bit shocking to anyone. Yeah, it’s a well established pattern. Somebody sucks up to him hoping to profit somehow, they somehow irritate him and boom they’re out and often screwed over one way or another. But there’s always more would-be toadies who think _they’ll_ be the exception. They just don’t learn. Another forum I know during his last administration had a thread titled “The Trump Memorial Wall” for all the Trumpists that happened to; it was active the whole four years. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2042 "2025-11-19T04:04:00Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Yeah, it’s a well established pattern. Somebody sucks up to him hoping to profit somehow, they somehow irritate him and boom they’re out and often screwed over one way or another. And somehow Trump’s fans never seem to figure out [what a phenomenally shit judge of character that makes him](https://www.the-independent.com/tv/news/trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-epstein-mtg-b2866095.html), one way or the other. > [@](#): > > During a rally in South Carolina in February 2024, Mr Trump said of Ms Greene: “If times are good, she will call me up twice. She is a fantastic person, a very smart person and very respected in Congress." […] > > On Friday (14 November), the US president [described his longtime ally as a “ranting lunatic”](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-jeffrey-epstein-trump-b2865696.html)and accused her of going “far left” as their rift deepens over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Trump, and his supporters, have never got beyond reality-show-level evaluations of public figures. Anybody all all can be a rising star one minute and disgraced trash the next, depending on the ratings-obsessed whims of the show judges. The concept of cultivating genuinely competent and principled fellow public servants, with whom you can cooperate and negotiate to get some substantive things accomplished even on issues where you disagree, could not be more weird and unfamiliar to them if it had literally come from Mars. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2043 "2025-11-19T13:29:09Z")
Yes, she is special. Her mom had her tested. And since she is special, she mis-understood what that meant. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2044 "2025-11-19T13:58:51Z")
There’s never really much schadenfreude happening to trump but something I saw elsewhere will make him sling ketchup if he sees it. Molesting Adolescent Girls Allowed. That’s what it really stands for. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2045 "2025-11-19T22:03:47Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > To think she once rubbed the private parts of his cardboard cutout. It’s always so sad when such lust turns to hatred. > [@Atamasama](#): > > That sounds like the tagline to a Lifetime movie. These lines have been around for a while: “Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d, / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn’d”. ---
**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 19, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2046 "2025-11-19T23:46:51Z")
One of the leading stories on Fox News, or as Trump will be calling them in a soon to be released, “Fake News”. > **[Fox News Poll: Voters say White House is doing more harm than good on economy](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-voters-say-white-house-doing-more-harm-than-good-economy)** > > Trump's approval hits new lows as 76% view economy negatively in latest Fox News poll. Rising costs for groceries, utilities spark voter dissatisfaction nationwide. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2047 "2025-11-20T01:39:12Z")
Get your ass in gear, Scott, or it’ll get fired. > “The only thing Scott is blowing it on is the Fed because the Fed, the rates are too high, Scott. If you don’t get it fixed fast, I’m going to fire your ass,” the president said, smirking, during a speech at a US-Saudi investment forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. > **[Trump teases he’ll fire Bessent if Fed doesn’t cut interest rates | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/politics/bessent-trump-federal-reserve-powell)** > > President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested he would fire Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent if the Federal Reserve doesn’t decrease interest rates. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2048 "2025-11-20T07:26:36Z")
Isn’t Bessent the one who gave Elon Musk a black eye? Well, he’s certainly got an opportunity to do the funniest thing ever if and when Trump fires him. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2049 "2025-11-20T23:22:38Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Trump, and his supporters, have never got beyond reality-show-level evaluations of public figures. Anybody all all can be a rising star one minute and disgraced trash the next, depending on the ratings-obsessed whims of the show judges. The concept of cultivating genuinely competent and principled fellow public servants, with whom you can cooperate and negotiate to get some substantive things accomplished even on issues where you disagree, could not be more weird and unfamiliar to them if it had literally come from Mars. I _think_ that’s a feature, not a flaw for Trump administration. Everyone in it ONLY holds power at his whim, so none of them are allowed to build a separate power structure. And since he rules by fear and fiat, it doesn’t matter nearly as much whether they can get anything done, they’re just an endless series of fallguys/gals to take the heat if someone doesn’t work out, Trump changes his mind, or if he feels extra petty that particular day. [I know, too rational for the Pit, so a random but earned “Piss off Motherfucker!” is hereby aimed at Trump!] ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2050 "2025-11-22T00:18:02Z")
[The Department of Justice is probing the conduct of at least two top Trump administration officials](https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-fbi-probing-top-trump-administration-officials-investigations/story?id=127602305) > Sources said the DOJ and FBI are scrutinizing whether U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte enlisted individuals outside the Department of Justice to probe allegations of mortgage fraud amid ongoing investigations of Sen. Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2051 "2025-11-22T01:02:42Z")
Humbly requst the above be moved to the JOKES thread. Kidding / not kiding. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2052 "2025-11-22T01:25:51Z")
Here’s where I saw it. Glen Kirchner is suspicious but actually has hope. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXpljBybYrM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXpljBybYrM) ---
**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 22, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2053 "2025-11-22T01:38:31Z")
Heads are exploding on Twitter over Trump’s embrace of Zohran. > **['You let us down!' Trump fans rebel against president over comments that...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fans-rebel-over-mamdani/?utm_source=superhead)** > > Donald Trump on Friday met with the man who was elected mayor of New York City, and concluded that despite previous attacks from both parties, Zohran Mamdani is a "rational person." That provoked outrage with Trump's biggest fans.After the meeting,... [![](https://i.imgflip.com/acvfre.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/acvfre.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2054 "2025-11-22T04:24:44Z")
Clicking the Like button. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2055 "2025-11-23T02:21:31Z")
Some of the idiots/bigots who voted for Trump are very slowly realizing the massive mistake they made. But they cannot possibly admit they made a mistake. That is inconceivable. So they’re struggling to find a way for them to disavow Trump without admitting they were idiots/bigots. The way for them to do this is to twist their reality so the Trump is the one who changed. That somehow he is not doing exactly what everyone knew he would. Mamdani is one step in that process. There will be more. But what is vitally important is that it is not their own fault for voting for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2056 "2025-11-23T19:42:39Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > But they cannot possibly admit they made a mistake. That is inconceivable. Admitting you’re wrong is tough for most people, but MAGAts are some additional baggage in that area. They’ve all seen what happens when a Republican disagrees with Trump let alone rejects him. They’re traitorous RINOs! Rejecting Trump means turning their back on friends and family. He’ll no longer be part of the tribe, instead he’ll be a traitor. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2025, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2057 "2025-11-24T08:09:15Z")
[Guess who X’s MAGAs are. I’ll give you three guesses. The first two don’t count.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/top-maga-influencers-accidentally-unmasked-080635757.html) > [@](#): > > Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors. > > The new “About This Account” feature, which became available to X users on Friday, allows others to see where an account is based, when they joined the platform, how often they have changed their username, and how they downloaded the X app. > > Upon rollout, rival factions began to inspect just where their online adversaries were really based on the combative social platform—with dozens of major MAGA and right-wing influencer accounts revealed to be based overseas. The next two parts are my favorite quotes in the article. > [@](#): > > “This is easily one of the greatest days on this platform,” [wrote](https://x.com/harryjsisson/status/1992389775945527705) Democratic influencer Harry Sisson. > > “Seeing all of these MAGA accounts get exposed as foreign actors trying to destroy the United States is a complete vindication of Democrats, like myself and many on here, who have been warning about this”. & > [@](#): > > “This is total armageddon for the online right,” [wrote](https://x.com/micah_erfan/status/1992432290618912844) law student and left-wing influencer Micah Erfan. “It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.” This is one of the best days of my life. First, I watched a video with a sovcit telling a cop said sovcit isn’t under his jurisdiction because the sovcit is “from the East coast of Calfifornia”. Then this news, literally seconds later, shows up. ---
**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 24, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2058 "2025-11-24T10:53:05Z")
[North Carolina man who voted for Trump forced to kill family lumber mill due to tariffs](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/north-carolina-man-voted-trump-131500350.html) > Jones is the fifth generation in his family to run a lumber business — and the first to close a mill. The culprit? President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, announced April 2, 2025, which promised to bring manufacturing jobs roaring back to America. > > “When I say Liberation Day, I cannot put enough snark and sarcasm in my voice because we weren’t liberated,” Wilson says. “Liberation Day, it did, at the time, it had damn near liberated me from our business.” While I give him _some_ credit for actually admitting it, I feel no sympathies for Trump voters who get their face eaten. ---
**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 24, 2025, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2059 "2025-11-24T11:31:06Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > the sovcit is “from the East coast of Calfifornia”. I feel for him, no one believes that I live just North of the North Pole. Trying to get a pizza delivered is maddening. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2060 "2025-11-24T12:20:27Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > the sovcit is “from the East coast of Calfifornia”. > > I feel for him, no one believes that I live just North of the North Pole. Trying to get a pizza delivered is maddening. Try getting a pizza delivered to the mountains of Ohio lol. Or an Uber. [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=102) [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=104)