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Trumpenfreude 

The glee or satisfaction experienced by Democrats watching the Republican Party slit it's own throat. Coined by columnist Paul Krugman, 12/28/15.
When the leading republican candidate insulted American POWs, I felt a rush of Trumpenfreude.
Trumpenfreude by dilillo fan April 8, 2016
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Trumpenfreude 

a feeling of pleasure at the bad things that happen to people who hate Trump
I should have felt sorry for Speaker Pelosi’s sudden onset of Tourette’s Syndrome during the president’s State of the Union address but I was instead overcome with Trumpenfreude.
Trumpenfreude by Freethinker62 February 7, 2019

Trumpenfreude 

Noun: a feeling of pain that comes from seeing or hearing about the troubles of your people where previously you could expect a feeling of schedenfruede
Dude, "Don't go there. That country is a basket case, they can't even buy toilet paper"
Gal, "I don't care.. I'm moving there. Every day I wake up and go to sleep with trumpenfreude."
Trumpenfreude by Fivebridges January 11, 2017

Trumpenfreude 

Taking pleasure in the misfortune, misery, failure, and general fuck-ups of Donald Trump or his family. Like the German word schadenfreude, but specific to them.
Every time I hear that Donald Trump has done something fucking idiotic again, I get a warm, happy glow of trumpenfreude in my heart.
Trumpenfreude by dementedfaerie March 15, 2019