# 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:** 191
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3802 "2026-05-16T11:08:08Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I used to argue the same thing. But this is the first president in my lifetime who enacts policy seemingly with the deliberate intent to hurt the United States. I can’t tell. We have decades of knowledge and facts showing what a bad businessman he is. It’s clear that he does not understand economics. Doesn’t know what a deal is either. Is he hurting us deliberately? Or is it just because he’s a dumbass? And yes @Mollie_Magill , congress is nothing but a bunch of cowards. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3803 "2026-05-16T14:03:29Z")
FWIW, I think he genuinely believes in his own brilliance and that his decisions are good for the country (at least the part he sees). That was true the last go around as well. But he’s an entitled dumbass born to wealth and not once in his life held to account, so even if he had some inkling things weren’t totally copacetic, it would have to be somebody else’s fault ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3804 "2026-05-16T18:20:16Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > FWIW, I think he genuinely believes in his own brilliance and that his decisions are good for the country (at least the part he sees). That was true the last go around as well. I’d agree with the former, but not the latter. I truly do not believe that Trump cares, in the slightest, about what is “good for the country” – he entirely, and only, cares about what is good for Donald J. Trump, and what will increase his personal wealth and status. If a decision happens to benefit others, it will only benefit others who can do something for him, and/or will owe him a favor for it. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3805 "2026-05-16T20:31:43Z")
Yeah, sure. So, slight correction. He believes he is more capable than anybody else, therefore whatever inane ideas he has will naturally turn out well for the country and therefore further burnish his imagined stellar reputation ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3806 "2026-05-16T22:27:43Z")
And if they don’t is not his fault, the fault lies with the incompetents who did not know how to implement his vision. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3807 "2026-05-16T22:30:30Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Is he hurting us deliberately? Take into account that he’d like to grind about half of us underfoot. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3808 "2026-05-16T22:55:37Z")
I’d say more like 90%. Probably about the best his supporters can expect would be to be ground first. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2026, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3809 "2026-05-16T23:17:35Z")
[![](https://media.craiyon.com/2025-05-11/CehvTb5aRcyrJKyXHuDfMQ.webp) ](https://media.craiyon.com/2025-05-11/CehvTb5aRcyrJKyXHuDfMQ.webp) You shall be be ground first. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2026, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3810 "2026-05-17T00:13:57Z")
Cthulhuser ---
**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:** [May 18, 2026, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3811 "2026-05-18T02:10:32Z")
Our super-patriotic POTUS apparently doesn’t know how many stripes are on the American flag. > **[Trump Mobile shambles as glaring mistake spotted in US flag etched into back](https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/trump-mobile-shambles-glaring-mistake-37167815?utm_source=irish_star_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=auto_daily_newsletter&utm_content=&utm_term=&ruid=01fa5e33-22fd-4caf-9c07-8e4ed0893387&hx=eb3cd6bb7cda7b9e738521fde83afc78cb620639ebfdb1dd3ea74c6d033c8909)** > > The Trump Mobile T1 phone has faced criticism over an incorrect US flag design in what appears to be an AI-generated promotional video, while customers report ongoing shipping delays on the $499 device ---
**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:** [May 18, 2026, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3812 "2026-05-18T05:35:13Z")
_And we have a twofer!_ [US magaflatearthers charged for racist (of course) attack in the UK.](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/maga-influencer-her-boyfriend-charged-161428662.html) > [@](#): > > A MAGA influencer and her boyfriend have been charged after they were allegedly involved in a racially-motivated assault. > > Melissa Rein Lively, a supporter of President [Donald Trump](https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/)’s Make America Great Again movement, and Philipp Ostermann are facing charges following an incident at a London transit station last year, according to a [news release](https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/in-the-courts/two-charged-in-connection-with-bond-street-underground-incident---london/) from British Transport Police (BTP). > > Lively, 40, was charged with one count of assault by beating, while Ostermann, 37, was charged with two racially aggravated public order offenses and a further public order offense, per the BTP. > > Police said the charges are in connection with an October 2025 incident that took place at the Bond Street Underground station. > > Police did not share any additional details about the incident in their news release, but the [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9v37djmkxko) reported that the charges were filed by a woman who claimed she was abused based on her race and had her hair grabbed while entering the station. > > The incident started after the woman who filed the report said her stroller collided with another woman walking ahead of her, according to [_Metro UK_](https://metro.co.uk/2026/05/15/couple-charged-alleged-racist-assault-london-underground-station-28385834/). > > A man with the woman reportedly began shouting at the alleged victim, per the BBC and _Metro UK_, and the one woman then allegedly grabbed the other’s hair. > > The man subsequently pulled out a small bottle he claimed was pepper spray and allegedly used it in the direction of the woman, who was with her family at the time, _Metro UK_ reported. [Magaflatearthiverse turns on Rittenhouse.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maga-piles-onto-kyle-rittenhouse-193226374.html) > [@](#): > > Kyle Rittenhouse is drawing friendly fire following his endorsement of Republican congressman Thomas Massie, a [foe of President](https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-rep-thomas-massie-bites-051221275.html) Donald Trump’s. > > Rittenhouse was 17 when he shot three protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020, killing two of them. He was [acquitted of the charges](https://www.yahoo.com/news/kyle-rittenhouse-acquitted-bombshell-end-181508214.html)against him, and has been a fixture on the MAGA scene since his arrest in 2020. > > Now that Trump, 79, wants Massie ousted from Kentucky’s fourth district in the Republican primary on Tuesday, Rittenhouse has found himself a target of online hatred from MAGA accounts. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2026, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3813 "2026-05-18T07:42:59Z")
I don’t think this is the correct point of view. It seems to me rather than President Ineptstein wants his name seen as the 13th stripe, or the first one even if you start counting from bottom to top, he being part and parcel of the flag and the country and everything. It is true that it is badly executed, that the white stripe is too thinly drawn and too broadly typeset. It does ot look enough like a stripe. But I am sure that is what he was told, and he liked it, until he forgot it. Even if his poor eyesight and lack of design acumen did not allow him to see the flaws in that argument and in the excution of the idea. He should not be mocked for forgetting one stripe, he should be put to shame for trying to claim the flag as his. Only that his supporters would agree with this claim, so it has no thrust. As always with him, his most stupid, vicious, frivolous acts and statements get through with his base as if they were clever, compassionate and well thought out. I am not defending him, just pointing out that this attack will not gain traction nor convince any supporter. It might be better to point out that it is frivolous, sacrilegeous even if you venerate the flag, and that it is very badly executed. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2026, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3814 "2026-05-18T08:13:52Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > he being part and parcel of the flag and the country and everything. _L’État et le drapeau, c’est moi._ ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2026, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3815 "2026-05-18T11:54:25Z")
No ballroom funding for you!! [Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, rules that the ballroom security funding is against the rules](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3px2x96eeo) somehow and the $1 billion security funding proposal is not allowed. I bet I know who’s next on the Trump revenge chopping block. “Ballroom Republicans” 😆 I hope that catches on. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2026, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3816 "2026-05-18T12:35:51Z")
I don’t get the presidential fascination with this “Ballroom”, which is NEVER going to be used as an actual ballroom. I mean, Trump is the quintessential example of someone who can’t dance, let alone ballroom style dancing. So it is just going to be a glorified, gilted dining hall, with- in this foreigner’s opinion - too much space to regularly fill, and unlikely to be serviced from the White House kitchen, which is not a full banqueting setup. Sure, most of his government appointees are only sufficietly qualified to flip burgers, so perhaps MacDs will establish a small franchise in the basement. In the UK, there is an architectural style known as a [“folly”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly), a result of overly rich people being overly rich and showing off. Unfortunately Trump is not dipping to his own pocket for this folly ---
**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:** [May 18, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3817 "2026-05-18T13:36:15Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > In the UK, there is an architectural style known as a [“folly”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly), a result of overly rich people being overly rich and showing off. Thanks, I’d never heard of that architectural style but reading your link I agree it describes Trumps construction ambitions perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2026, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3818 "2026-05-18T13:59:40Z")
Hm, just don’t let @ **Folly** know. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2026, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3819 "2026-05-18T14:30:07Z")
I just looked at Nate Silver’s aggregate poll. 45 is underwater by 20.1 points, and that’s with Rasmussen and RMG in the aggregate. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2026, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3820 "2026-05-18T15:14:28Z")
If only he was literally underwater. OceanGate probably have a few spare submersibles he could pick up cheaply. (Now I’m picturing him sitting in a submersible in the Reflecting Pool, playing “ocean explorer”…) ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2026, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/3821 "2026-05-18T15:22:13Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > (Now I’m picturing him sitting in a submersible in the Reflecting Pool, playing “ocean explorer”…) And I have an image of him on the floor of the Oval Office in one of the cardboard “[submarines](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.atomictourism.us%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F12%2Fpolaris.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=6762aa80681e3e4f73a78bf2a6e22a90c465f04a3d2f747d60dffe319dc60c72)” that could be ordered from the back pages of comic books, firing missiles and torpedoes at Iran and Cuba. Not that he’d fit, mind you. [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=190) [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=192)