{"id":80945,"date":"2026-11-05T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/seeing-trump-and-his-acolytes-lose-so-spectacularly-is-powerful-schadenfreude-for-millions-across-the-globe\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:55:09","slug":"seeing-trump-and-his-acolytes-lose-so-spectacularly-is-powerful-schadenfreude-for-millions-across-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/seeing-trump-and-his-acolytes-lose-so-spectacularly-is-powerful-schadenfreude-for-millions-across-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Trump and his acolytes lose so spectacularly is powerful schadenfreude for millions across the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is still president, and we don\u2019t know where things will go from here \u2013 but sometimes it just feels good to see some terrible people have a terrible time<\/p>\n<p>The last couple of days have been very bad for Donald Trump. Of course, in Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/nov\/04\/midterm-elections-results-senate-house-michigan-maine-mississippi-latest-updates\">usual<\/a> style, he is denying that the Republican loss at the midterms has anything to do with him \u2013 but we all know it does. While I fear the Democrats will not use this decisive moment to exercise some ambition and take meaningful action, the goings-on of the last couple of days have been undeniably fun to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing so many conservatives lose in such a spectacular way has blessed millions across the globe with powerful schadenfreude. It is a much needed moment of relief, an experience of positivity to rejuvenate our ailing nervous systems (or whatever biology does). Sometimes you just need to see some terrible people have a terrible time. For me, it\u2019s just been the icing on a cake I\u2019ve been dining out on for the last couple of months: watching Trump supporters watch Trump describing other men\u2019s bodies in detail.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/nov\/06\/us-midterms-trump-loss-is-powerful-schadenfreude-for-millions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is still president, and we don\u2019t know where things will go from here \u2013 but sometimes it just feels good to see some terrible people have a terrible time The last couple of days have been very bad for Donald Trump. Of course, in Trump\u2019s usual style, he is denying that the Republican loss &#8230; <a title=\"Seeing Trump and his acolytes lose so spectacularly is powerful schadenfreude for millions across the globe\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/seeing-trump-and-his-acolytes-lose-so-spectacularly-is-powerful-schadenfreude-for-millions-across-the-globe\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Seeing Trump and his acolytes lose so spectacularly is powerful schadenfreude for millions across the globe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}