# 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:** 137
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2721 "2026-01-30T21:45:33Z")
I may go this weekend just to have some time alone. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2722 "2026-01-30T22:11:09Z")
Yeah, the perfect movie for introverts to once go out for a change. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2723 "2026-01-31T01:08:00Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > Meanwhile, one of the Epstein Files that wasn’t supposed to has gotten through… > > [DOJ Just DELETED This Document from the Epstein Files. We Saved It.](https://www.meidasplus.com/p/doj-just-deleted-this-document-from) No doubt this will get its own thread, but just the first complaint in the list is revealing (emphasis mine): > [@](#): > > [redacted] reported an unidentified friend who was **forced to perform oral sex on President Trump 35 years ago**. The friend told Alexis [oops, forgot to redact that one] she was appoximately 13-14 years old when this occured, and **the friend allegedly bit President Trump while performing oral sex**. The friend was allegedly hit in the face after she laughed about biting President Trump. The friend said she was also abused by Epstein. Response: > [@](#): > > Spoke with caller who identified [redacted] as friend. Lead was sent to Washington office to conduct interview. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2026, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2724 "2026-01-31T01:21:44Z")
“If you’re hoping Melania will have a ‘so bad it’s good’ energy, I’m afraid it does not. Melania is not Cats. Melania is a bad movie, made by bad people about bad people and under no circumstances you should not go and see it.” > **['I paid to see Melania to find out if it can possibly be as bad as people say'](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/i-paid-see-melania-find-36645017)** > > Many people have already made their choice, voted with their feet and made Melania one of the biggest flops of all time - so I needed to know whether they made the right decision “No doubt there is a great documentary to be made about Melania Knauss, the ambitious model from out of Slovenia who married a New York real-estate mogul and then found herself cast in the role of a latter-day Eva Braun, but the horrific Melania emphatically isn’t it. It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne.” > **[Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest)** > > Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable “To say that Melania is a hagiography would be an insult to hagiographies. This is a film that fawns so lavishly over its subject that you feel downright unpatriotic not gushing over it.” > **[‘Melania’ Review: Brett Ratner’s Melania Trump Documentary Is an Unabashed,...](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/melania-review-brett-ratner-melania-trump-documentary-1236489604/)** > > The 'Rush Hour' director's film offers an up-close and not-so-personal portrait of the first lady during the few weeks before President Trump's second inauguration. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2725 "2026-01-31T02:26:16Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > To say that Melania is a hagiography would be an insult to hagiographies. This is a film that fawns so lavishly over its subject that you feel downright unpatriotic not gushing over it.” This was my favorite part of that review. > [@](#): > > Melania takes pains to include many shots of her and Donald acting like a loving couple, which threatens to take the film out of the realm of nonfiction. “Nobody has endured what he has for the last few years,” she points out, which explains why he’s so intent on making the country endure it as well. > **[‘Melania’ Review: Brett Ratner’s Melania Trump Documentary Is an Unabashed,...](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/melania-review-brett-ratner-melania-trump-documentary-1236489604/)** > > The 'Rush Hour' director's film offers an up-close and not-so-personal portrait of the first lady during the few weeks before President Trump's second inauguration. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2726 "2026-01-31T02:54:04Z")
Well I see that rotten tomatoes has a 99% audience score for Melania. Viewers are impressed by the behind the scenes access to the fashionable elegant First Lady. The critics OTOH are at 8%. I am calling it now. Donald goes ballistic when the film fails to get an Oscar nomination for best documentary and blames the biased, woke liberals in Hollywood. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2026, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2727 "2026-01-31T04:37:52Z")
I must say, the reviews _savaging_ Melania are far more entertaining than the movie could ever be. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2026, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2728 "2026-01-31T04:42:57Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I must say, the reviews _savaging_ Melania are far more entertaining than the movie could ever be Product reviews for ironing boards are far more entertaining than the movie could ever be. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2026, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2729 "2026-01-31T05:46:13Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > > [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > > > Forgot to send the film. Typical Trump crap. > > It’s a good example of “Omni-incompetence”. There’s literally nothing that they’re actually competent at doing. Well, they’re _very_ good at being incompetent. It’s kind of a meta thing. > [@Smapti](#): > > “If you’re hoping Melania will have a ‘so bad it’s good’ energy, I’m afraid it does not. Melania is not Cats. Melania is a bad movie, made by bad people about bad people and under no circumstances you should not go and see it.”… Oh, no! The dreaded double negative which bids me to see a terrible movie. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2730 "2026-01-31T06:56:31Z")
A film blogger (well known in cinema circles) did a live-tweet from a Melania screening on Blue Sky. Public thread (no sign-in required). Fewer than twenty posts, and half of them are about the lunatic morons in the audience. Hilarious. > **[Jordan Hoffman, your friend. (@jhoffman.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/jhoffman.bsky.social/post/3mdnwu6qte22c)** > > Reporting live from a surprisingly packed screening of MELANIA in Freehold, N.J. Audience is comprised of exactly the type you’d expect. Told ticket taker I was “here for work” and pointed to my notebook and he cracked up. Trailers start any... ---
**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:** [January 31, 2026, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2731 "2026-01-31T07:20:52Z")
Highlight of the thread; > **[Jordan Hoffman, your friend. (@jhoffman.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/jhoffman.bsky.social/post/3mdnzdfzjjc2w)** > > This is a movie about a woman getting dressed. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2732 "2026-01-31T11:32:22Z")
That, there, is a classic British take-down. Polite but brutal. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2733 "2026-01-31T11:40:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Highlight of the thread; I know she has made a few fashion gaffes, including that “I don’t care” jacket, and that UFO hat, but if there is one positive thing I can say about the woman, she is usually quite stylish. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2734 "2026-01-31T12:59:01Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > she is usually quite stylish. She’s a rich model. Being stylish is her job.(I liked the UFO hat myself) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2735 "2026-01-31T13:14:13Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Being stylish is her job.(I liked the UFO hat myself) It _is_ iconic, to the point it will forever save cartoonists time in drawing her face: you’ll just need the hat and the chinline and we will always know. Interestingly there was a style choice some months ago no one seems to be objecting to, unlike the last time a DC big shot tried it: [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTCq-kHGfKfbhywt14Yxhgd0xtWD_mnjqNtdqs0ajnAL6fKnFiFXD1tn2k&s=10) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTCq-kHGfKfbhywt14Yxhgd0xtWD_mnjqNtdqs0ajnAL6fKnFiFXD1tn2k&s=10) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2736 "2026-01-31T13:28:33Z")
She totally failed the Annie Hall look, I’ll give you that. And my god, a TAN suit? Is she trolling? ---
**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:** [January 31, 2026, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2737 "2026-01-31T14:31:35Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Highlight of the thread; > > [@jhoffman.bsky.social on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/jhoffman.bsky.social/post/3mdnzdfzjjc2w) For me: **Brett Ratner is no LenI Riefenstahl.** 😆 ---
**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:** [January 31, 2026, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2738 "2026-01-31T15:17:31Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > And my god, a TAN suit? Is she trolling? Aren’t they all? Trolling is government policy at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2739 "2026-01-31T15:22:20Z")
He may be no Riefenstahl, but for the Guardian “Trump film is a gilded trash remake of _The Zone of Interest_”: > **[Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest)** > > Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable _**[The Zone of Interest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zone_of_Interest_(film))**_ is a film that focuses on the life of German Auschwitz commandant [Rudolf Höss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_H%C3%B6ss) and his wife Hedwig, who live with their five children in a home in the “Zone of Interest” next to the Auschwitz concentration camp. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/2740 "2026-01-31T15:22:36Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > For me: **Brett Ratner is no LenI Riefenstahl.** Anyone but Ratner and I would have thought “Gimme Shelter” played over scenes of Mar-a-Lago was subversive trolling, but he’s such a scumbag I think he just didn’t even make the connection. [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=136) [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=138)