# 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:** 94
**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:** [October 15, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1861 "2025-10-15T02:15:03Z")
It was the best shot of all the pictures taken that day? ---
**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:** [October 15, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1862 "2025-10-15T02:18:48Z")
Ha! Entirely possible. Regardless, it’s been a huge source of joy for me. I wonder if he’ll have it framed and hung on the walk of fame or whatever his wall of pictures is called. I’d rather be represented by an image of an autopen than that accurately ugly shot. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1863 "2025-10-15T12:13:17Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Even if no tampering, it’s such a bad photo that I wonder if it was chosen specifically because it is so ugly > [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > I wonder if he’ll have it framed and hung on the walk of fame or whatever his wall of pictures is called. Yep, I can just imagine the TIME editors discussing it– “Do we _really_ have to put trump on the cover? Yeah, the Israeli-Hamas peace deal is the news of the week, but you know he’s going to get this cover framed and hang it _everywhere_, right? He might even replace the [fake TIME cover of himself he already has hanging in his golf clubs](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-time-magazine-with-trump-on-the-cover-hangs-in-his-golf-clubs-its-fake/2017/06/27/0adf96de-5850-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html).” “I got an idea! We kind of have to put him on the cover, as much as we all hate the idea, but why don’t we use the absolute _worst picture of him we can find_?” “Brilliant!” ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1864 "2025-10-15T19:55:32Z")
> [@solost](#): > > “I got an idea! We kind of have to put him on the cover, as much as we all hate the idea, but why don’t we use the absolute _worst picture of him we can find_?” Honestly, I don’t think that’s a bad picture of Trump, by normal elderly-politician standards. The bizarre angle gives his face the illusion of looking thoughtful and not unintelligent. Unlike his usual facial expression alternating between a smug smirk and a sullen scowl, making him look like a sleazy used-car salesman who either just told a racist joke, or just did a fart that he’s now worried might have been a wet one, respectively. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1865 "2025-10-15T20:00:46Z")
Capitol police investigate swastika displayed in Ohio Republican’s office. > **[Swastika Flag Spotted in MAGA Rep’s Office Sparks Investigation](https://www.thedailybeast.com/swastika-flag-spotted-in-maga-rep-dave-taylors-office-sparks-investigation/)** > > The hateful symbol was spotted during a virtual meeting inside Rep. Dave Taylor’s office. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1866 "2025-10-15T20:23:08Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Honestly, I don’t think that’s a bad picture of Trump, by normal elderly-politician standards That’s the part that bothers everybody the most. It’s a picture that makes him look like a normal human being, albeit a normal older human being not in the best of personal health. Of course he and his supporters would hate that. But I’m also surprised his detractors think it’s an especially bad photo. It’s not, by normal standards but I guess a decade of constant bombardment has produced a Pavlovian response for a lot of people ---
**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:** [October 15, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1867 "2025-10-15T23:27:15Z")
> “The content of that image does not reflect **the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself** , and I condemn it in the strongest terms.” > [https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/capitol-police-investigating-swastika-in-gop-congressional-office-00609704](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/capitol-police-investigating-swastika-in-gop-congressional-office-00609704) 🎶 One of these things is not like the other, one of these things is a fucking lie, > Also, dipshit _masculine_ is not a fucking pronoun. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1868 "2025-10-16T01:02:29Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Also, dipshit _masculine_ is not a fucking pronoun. To be fair, although this loathsome Nazi appears to be wrong about most things, he’s not wrong that pronouns such as “he/him/his” are correctly described in English as masculine pronouns. Even if nazibro is phrasing it that way as an attempted “gotcha” of gender-egalitarian people specifying their pronouns more literally, it’s so uncontroversially accurate that I think he’s basically crossed over into “accidental ally” territory here. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1869 "2025-10-16T02:02:04Z")
Goddamn, I hope this is Fake. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1870 "2025-10-16T02:04:04Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > To be fair, although this loathsome Nazi appears to be wrong about most things, he’s not wrong that pronouns such as “he/him/his” are correctly described in English as masculine pronouns. I’d call it “lazy” or “less helpful” but not wrong. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1871 "2025-10-16T02:33:21Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Goddamn, I hope this is Fake. Nope, though his boss is trying to play it off as maliciously planted by somebody else 🙄 [https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/capitol-police-investigating-swastika-in-gop-congressional-office-00609704?internal=true](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/capitol-police-investigating-swastika-in-gop-congressional-office-00609704?internal=true) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1872 "2025-10-16T03:11:40Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IIRJznA-BiU/hqdefault.jpg ""Did You Ever Know That You're My Frodo?" - Bette Midler Serenades Stephen Colbert") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRJznA-BiU&t=155s) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1873 "2025-10-16T16:46:55Z")
I saw that show. Bette was great. She said she hadn’t sung in a while, but she sounded good to me. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1874 "2025-10-16T18:59:37Z")
> **[Sen. Mitch McConnell falls in Capitol hallway](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-mitch-mcconnell-falls-capitol-hallway/story?id=126586619)** > > The 83-year-old fell on his way to Senate votes. I get knocked down But I get up again You’re never gonna keep me down ---
**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:** [October 16, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1875 "2025-10-16T19:05:27Z")
Who sat through that long ad to watch Mitch bust his ass? 🙌 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1876 "2025-10-16T19:42:30Z")
I just looked it up on that site that has lotsa videos. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1877 "2025-10-16T20:03:14Z")
When he fell, the camera followed him, and you can briefly see his shoes. He has some really comfortable, grippy shoes, not dress shoes/loafers with a smooth sole and high heel or anything, but what look like some good Skechers or some other sneaker with a grippy sole. At least someone is dressing him in as safe a footwear as possible. That floor looks smooth and shiny. I think he stepped wrong and his foot slipped, I don’t think he had a fainting spell or anything. But either way, it’s impossible not to conjure images of a turtle falling on its back. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1878 "2025-10-16T21:51:37Z")
The turtle lays on his back, his belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping…Why is that? ---
**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:** [October 16, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1879 "2025-10-16T22:01:43Z")
> [@duality72](#): > > But you’re not helping…Why is that? The Republicans cut the funding for turtle-flipping. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-3/1013175/1880 "2025-10-16T22:30:34Z")
> **[Ex-Trump adviser John Bolton indicted on charges of mishandling classified...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/john-bolton-indictment-trump?CMP=share_btn_url)** > > Eighteen-count indictment handed down by federal grand jury in Maryland as US president calls former ally a ‘bad guy’ That would be something if this douchebag was convicted. He used to stand, with the White House behind him, and appear on Meet The Press and mislead the people, running cover for Trump. If he’s eventually convicted in yet another clearly politically and personally motivated prosecution by the DOJ, I will sarcastically congratulate Trump on getting one of his own. Trump’s fishes, Trump’s barrel. [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=93) [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=95)