# 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:** 151
**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:** [February 27, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3001 "2026-02-27T22:32:04Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > A speech bubble Yes! I couldn’t remember the term for them when I was making the cartoon. (I did try to remember it, but it wouldn’t come.) Thank you. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2026, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3002 "2026-02-27T23:41:41Z")
Earlier in the week Pete Hegseth did a bench press in front of a bunch of military personnel. he’s a manly man, you know. Except he’s getting lots of criticism for it. As you’ll see in the video, his bar has 3 big plates on each side. Typically, those big plates are 45 pounds each, meaning he’s bending 315 pounds. Only Hegseth isn’t nearly that muscular. Plus, the bar doesn’t bend _at all_. And he’s not really exerting himself like you’d expect. Conventional wisdom among the lifting community is that those were “fake” weights, or big 10 or 25 pound bumper plates (which are used during Olympic lifts like the clean and jerk, since the bar ends up bouncing at the end). He’s _maybe_ lifting 195 pounds. Not bad, but not what’s he’s trying to portray. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vBTL4BFcREk/maxresdefault.jpg "Pete Hegseth Benches 315 lbs During a Military Gym Session") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBTL4BFcREk) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3003 "2026-02-27T23:45:50Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > > > A speech bubble > > Yes! I couldn’t remember the term for them… In Trump’s case, I assume the bubble is full of grawlix. ---
**Author:** ![Lizzie1210](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Lizzie1210](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizzie1210)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3004 "2026-02-28T01:00:25Z")
Frankly, I’ve been expecting her to kill him in his sleep for years. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2026, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3005 "2026-02-28T03:02:14Z")
Naw, she’d have to be sharing a bed with him. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2026, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3006 "2026-02-28T04:30:49Z")
[MAGA doesn’t want to be identified now.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-voters-embarrassed-deny-voting-174610158.html) > [@](#): > > The red hats are being stowed away as some of the president’s once-vocal supporters are now reluctant to publicly acknowledge they voted for him, according to new polling. > > [Pollsters Verasight and The Argument](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-trump-voters-telling-pollsters) conducted surveys of Donald Trump voters between August 2025 and February 2026 among 12,180 respondents. These same voters were polled immediately after the 2024 election about who they voted for. The two polls show that about 6 percent now deny ever having voted for Trump despite reporting they did so in 2024. > > Among those voters, 2.7 percent falsely claim they voted for Democrat Kamala Harris, while 3.3 percent say they voted for neither Trump nor Harris. > > The data also reveals another striking trend: Trump voters who now disapprove of him are much more likely to deny having voted for him in 2024. About 15 percent of Trump’s 2024 voters reported disapproving of his job performance. > > Among those disapproving Trump voters, 12.5 percent claimed they voted for Harris, while 11.8 percent said they didn’t vote for either candidate. By contrast, among Trump voters who approve of him, just 0.9 percent said they voted for Harris, and 1.3 percent claimed they voted for neither. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2026, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3007 "2026-02-28T06:29:40Z")
Also shows a lot of them are liars. I guess if you vote for one of the most well known liars for president, you obviously don’t view lying as a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3008 "2026-02-28T13:15:45Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Naw, she’d have to be sharing a bed with him. Yeah, that would be a big prosecution point at her trial: “The defendant expects us to believe that shared a bed with the victim?” ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3009 "2026-02-28T19:10:36Z")
Prosecution. She would be the Defendent. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2026, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3010 "2026-02-28T21:10:50Z")
With this DOJ, who knows? ---
**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:** [March 1, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3011 "2026-03-01T15:46:28Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Prosecution. She would be the Defendent. No, no. I like the idea that when he dies multiple people will be vying for credit. “I smothered him in his sleep.” “Ma’am, he died trying to hit a golf ball at his club in Jersey… It worked out well, in fact, since we could just roll him over to the gravesite we dug.” ---
**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:** [March 1, 2026, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3012 "2026-03-01T19:18:20Z")
Can’t wait to see how popular this asshole becomes if he fucks up The World Cup and Formula One by starting a war to conceal his likely child-rape. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2026, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3013 "2026-03-01T19:45:45Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > With this DOJ, who knows? What is this DOJ you speak of? They certainly have nothing to do with Justice. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3014 "2026-03-01T20:49:07Z")
Indeed. Only one in four Americans approve of the strikes on Iran: [Do Americans support Iran strikes? Here's what new poll says - AOL](https://www.aol.com/articles/americans-support-iran-strikes-heres-185856686.html) ---
**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:** [March 1, 2026, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3015 "2026-03-01T20:59:50Z")
B-2 stealth bombers entered the fray last night. Targets were underground missile storage and launch sites. Smaller 2,000 lbs. class earth penetrator bombs were used instead of the 30,000 lbs. MOP used against the suspected nuclear sites previously. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2026, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3016 "2026-03-01T22:45:10Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Only one in four Americans approve of the strikes on Iran: [Do Americans support Iran strikes? Here’s what new poll says - AOL](https://www.aol.com/articles/americans-support-iran-strikes-heres-185856686.html) There’s your hard-core. White-supremacist, in the main, and always-excited-for-military action. Even when the flag-draped coffins start coming in in the middle of the night (no press!), this 25% will be all in favor of whatever Donald wants. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3017 "2026-03-02T03:07:16Z")
I’m thinking about starting a Polymarket bet for the following: Will Donald Trump attend the dignified transfer of the remains of fallen US troops from Operation Epic Fury? _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3017))_ ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3018 "2026-03-02T03:21:35Z")
Trump doesn’t like losers that die for America. Also, why doesn’t Trump deserve a Combat Infantryman Badge, a Purple Heart, and the Nobel War Prize for this action? ---
**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:** [March 2, 2026, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3019 "2026-03-02T03:35:17Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Nobel War Prize Just call it the Noble War Prize, put Trump’s face on it, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that actually becomes a thing. It could be awarded to whoever sucks up to Trump the most. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2026, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3020 "2026-03-02T05:29:48Z")
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