# 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:** 64
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1261 "2025-07-06T05:27:48Z")
Dogs and cats, living together… mass hysteria! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1262 "2025-07-06T09:07:17Z")
It’s a small part of the bill, (as the article states: "Because in the past, where you could deduct 100% of your losses, now you can deduct 90%. So basically you’re paying income tax on phantom income you might not have ever have made.”) but the fact that the casino industry supported Trump’s OBBB, likely because they felt he was “one of them” and now the bill has the potential to hurt them pleases me. I don’t care about them or professional players, of course. > **[Here's What Tax Experts Want Poker Players to Know About Trump's 'Big...](https://www.pokernews.com/news/2025/07/tax-experts-weigh-in-on-big-beautiful-bill-49045.htm)** > > The recently passed bill "could have a major effect" on the gambling industry. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2025, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1263 "2025-07-06T10:26:41Z")
I just browsed the main poker forum (Two Plus Two), and I’m honestly surprised how many of them hated Trump even before this. Among his many supporters, however, there is still very little recognition of the leopards, even as their faces are being eaten. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1264 "2025-07-06T14:02:56Z")
It’s not that shocking. Gotta be good with numbers to be good at poker these days, and there’s always been con artists around gambling. Trump’s numbers have never added up, and he’s always been rather obviously a con artist. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1265 "2025-07-06T14:45:20Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Trump’s numbers have never added up, and he’s always been rather obviously a con artist. In the movie ‘The Sting’ Trump would have been the one that got conned. He is not an artist of anything. He _might_ realize that he cheats and lies. Maybe he realizes that. But only in a way that it drives him to cheat and lie more. When you have no conscious or humanity to care about others, it’s not a con. It’s not a scam, it’s what is best for him. There is zero empathy there. If he see’s someone down on their luck, he wonders how he can take advantage of it. For Trump, it’s the way things are done. He knows no other way. He is not a ‘con-artist’. He is just himself, a dim-witted bully that fell ass backwards into a ton of money that he uses to try to get people to like him. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1266 "2025-07-07T22:48:31Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > New Trump portrait in Colorado State Capitol is improved - bigly. The first Pic is distorted, and the second does look a lot more like the real face. It also emphasizes the age lines, fake tan, and bad hair. Win/win? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1267 "2025-07-08T05:58:48Z")
The new portrait looks like it belongs above a fireplace on the set of a live action Scooby-Doo production. The evil patriarch and whatnot. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1268 "2025-07-08T15:10:42Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > The new portrait looks like it belongs above a fireplace on the set of a live action Scooby-Doo production. “Let’s take off this mask, gang, and see who’s really behind these tariffs!” “Eww… It’s peeling off in a weird way… What is this?!” “It’s just the top layer of the bronzer.” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1269 "2025-07-08T15:44:17Z")
The old portrait looks like it was based on his Atlanta mug shot. I thought Trump loved that mug shot! I thought that he thought it made him look like a tough guy. I wonder why he hates it now. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1270 "2025-07-08T15:55:17Z")
No, the new portrait, on the right, looks like it was based on his Atlanta mug shot. The old portrait, on the left, which is the one he hated, depicts him as normal-looking, pudgy and nonthreatening. He looks kind of like the manager of an auto dealership in Terre Haute, Indiana. Not nearly propagandist enough. [![](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/XVXP_.G8AcZ5altqq9ZZCg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTI0MDA7aD0yMjcw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/buzzfeed_articles_778/e5e7e140a1c9ce757ffef842b3a5c1ca) ](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/XVXP_.G8AcZ5altqq9ZZCg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTI0MDA7aD0yMjcw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/buzzfeed_articles_778/e5e7e140a1c9ce757ffef842b3a5c1ca) ---
**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:** [July 8, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1271 "2025-07-08T15:59:16Z")
He looks like an old catcher’s mitt. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1272 "2025-07-08T16:13:21Z")
Is Trump trying to look intimidating or is he farting? I can’t tell. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1273 "2025-07-08T16:18:47Z")
I’ve heard his farts are pretty intimidating, so both? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1274 "2025-07-08T16:19:21Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > He looks like an old catcher’s mitt. You know the movie Grand Canyon? Great movie, a sleeper for sure. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1275 "2025-07-08T16:22:52Z")
In the one on the left he looks like he’s storing nuts for eating later. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1276 "2025-07-08T16:25:17Z")
My mistake. For some reason I thought the one on the right was the old one, and the one on the left was the new one. Makes much more sense the other way. (I don’t think the one on the left looks much like him either. Too respectable looking.) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1277 "2025-07-08T16:27:05Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Too respectable looking Yep, far too normal looking and not nearly threatening enough. Even the skin tone is a realistic color. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1278 "2025-07-08T16:47:40Z")
I thought Trump was low class but that looks like real black velvet! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1279 "2025-07-08T16:49:40Z")
> [@solost](#): > > He looks kind of like the manager of an auto dealership in Terre Haute, Indiana. Hahahaha. Perfect. Not that he would ever be qualified to do that. The one on the right is good too. Looks like an angry asshole. Which is a better suited to his… persona. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1280 "2025-07-08T19:01:12Z")
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