Any Army vet knows this well. Post beautification, police call. The fact these soldiers are forced to take time from their civilian jobs and their families to pick up trash is crazy. The day we are all waiting for can't come soon enough.

They aren’t taking time from their jobs to clean DC they’re taking time from their jobs to terrorize DC.

MUST make DC as beautiful as Pyongyang!

But Pyongyang has bigger, more beautiful military parades for their Dear Leader.

That people show up for

Might as well get our moneys worth.

They’re punishing them for something.

The Nation Guard troops in DC issued new weapons to curb crime. 😁

Disgraceful!!!!

When they told me I was being activated to clean up DC I had no idea this is what they meant. Can I go back to my family and job yet?

Some expensive garage collecting...🖕🏻

There is so much crime, they are picking up trash. Hope they don't forget to get the trash in the WH.

Pulled from their families, their jobs and made to pick up trash. This is TRUMP!

This on top of that joke of a parade

I actually love this for them.

Morale has got to suck. Here’s why that’s bad news for…nevermind. I don’t have it in me.

I don’t know why the mockery. They are performing an excellent community service. But yeah, send them to Pennsylvania Avenue for a big pick-up.

I’m sure they’re glad to be separated from their homes, families, and jobs to do this important work.

Everything Trump touches turns to shit.

When you’ve harassed all the citizens, what else is there to do?

What a crock of shit.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they were given this task to anger them, so that they’d act ruthlessly when turned against civilians.

I think it’s much more likely “idle hands do the devil’s work” - leadership is giving them a task so that they’re doing something, rather than standing around idly while armed.

Oh, I hope you’re right. I’m just not very optimistic, lately.

Probably some of them are also in charge of fluffing trump's cape as he strolls around the cement grounds of the white house.

Job for them over at the Oval Office.

Half-million per day to do ISS style garbage collection punishment?

Hey Kegsbreath these your guys?

They're training for increased leafthality

And they needed weapons for this? That trash is dangerous!

there could be a subway sandwich in that trash

I guess this is what the orange dictator meant by “cleaning up the streets”.

I can hear all the 17-year-olds now. "My god I can't wait till I turn 18 so I can join the military and pick up garbage in some town" Yeah, what a recruitment tool that is.

Because apparently, harrassing and threatening anyone you see isn't getting them the optics they were hoping for.

Whiskey Pete Hegseth is instilling the shit out of the lethal warrior ethos in those troops.

Thats an expensive sanitation crew

At least they’re being productive and not kidnapping people.

In a related story: Democrat mayors are trying to artificially inflate their crime numbers so that they, too, can get free sanitation crews.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

they're really warfightering the fuck out of that random debris

But this is soooo Donald John Trump... "I'm paying them, they have to do whatever I say".

This is just sad seeing National Guardsmen being debased like this. I could see them doing this right after a natural disaster, sure, but this... just humiliating.

It’s terrible that these men and women have been pulled from their families to pick up trash… and? There’s not even much for them to pick up. See how empty their bags are?

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" "I want to join the military and protect my country!" "Excellent! No go pick up some trash."

Camouflage AND a high Viz jacket? Are they trying to be seen or not seen?!

Schrodinger’s national guard

New uniform? 😬

National Guard picking up litter is better than them terrorizing the city like that incurable xenophobe Miller wants.

Let's not forget that these national guard services aren't free. Salaries, transportation, food, lodging etc. Why not cut a check to the national parks service, or create a jobs program, or pay DC police overtime? He wants military hardware on the ground. He wants a trial run for other cities.

This just seems like the aftermath to Trump’s military parade on June 14 to celebrate his birthday and the 200th anniversary of the US Army.

FELON/Sexual Predator Donald J. "Bone Spurs" Trump loves humiliating our military members/troops. You can bet he got great satisfaction watching our military picking up trash in #DC. You can bet his pal Putin loved it, too. Trump is a monster. After this, I hope our military finally recognize that.

Kim Jong Un, Trump’s hero, sent his troops to fight next to Russian troops in Ukraine. Trump sends his troops to pick up park trash. Sad little snail man.

Maybe they can go to the fields and pick fruit next.

Because making them roll out a carpet for a murderous dictator wasn't enough humiliation.

What if they paid homeless people to do this instead of black bagging them?

is that you Kramer?

I know we joke about how much trash collectors make but these guys are the most expensive trash collectors ever. Millions each day for what??? Your kid can't have lunch at school, your grandma no longer has meals on wheels, parents lose snap benefits, all worth it for trash removal???

Just look at that lethality! Whiskey Pete must be proud

This is F*CKING disgusting! 🤬

Don’t forget to drop those bags off at the Oval Office with the rest of the refuse!

If they're going to pick up garbage, they need to go to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave

How insulting! Can they go over to the White House and clean up the mess outside and inside 🤔

Keep reposting this!! HUMILIATE those weak ass bastards and their complicit military commanders🤬🤬

Well! At least they're doing something useful at taxpayers expense. Lets face it, the amount of garbage the GOP is unleashing these days is appalling. I wonder if Trumple is going to break his own record of expenditure set in his previous term of running up the National debt. The Art of Bankruptcy.

Mutiny coming soon! This is a ridiculous waste of resources. Won't anyone in his cabinet or Congress do the job for the American people and to the Fake Dictator King?

Pretty sure that isn’t what they signed up for!

Accurate statement. It would also be accurate to say they are being abused by the worst CIC and SECDEF in history. Important context.

It must be really dangerous garbage for these highly trained soldiers - paid for by the taxpayer - to be picking garbage, guess dropping garbage is rife in DC and the most lethal crimes taking place there!

Only because they prevented all the murders so quickly! 🙄🙄🙄

How embarrassing for our military to be 'policing the grounds' of our municipal parks. The demoralization of our military shouldn't be tolerated by any citizen. They are the ones who protect US when the going gets tough & they deserve so much more respect than this illegitimate regime shows them.

Well, littering is actually a crime. So they're fighting crime? I guess?

Bonespurs Trump wants them to understand unequivocally that he thinks they are "suckers and losers".

How much money do they get paid vs someone who's job it is?

At least they are doing something useful and most people appreciate 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Idiot said "Clean up the place" and someone is maliciously complying.

I know where there is a 5’10” 320 lb sack of shit they can pick up. Bring a few orange bags.

With zippers

Gonna need a pallet and a forklift for that job.

Shuddup and 'reads orders' go police the park for trash and crime, soldier! '3 assault rifle carrying soldiers stare at 7 year old with a popsicle stick, who slowly puts it in the trash'

Those guys better slow down or they're going to hurt themselves

Thank you for this terrific post.

Trump will have them mowing his golf courses nexrt.

Plenty of trash to pick up at the Pentagon, Capitol and Whitehouse.

Literally sweating his ass off.

Well they have nabbed all the laborers and landscape crewmembers. The flaccid felon will probably have them harvesting crops in next .

Trump is now trying to humiliate the military. 🎖🪖 He's never respected the uniform. Maybe these troops🪖🪖🪖🪖 will finally honour their vow to the Constitution, and throw that poor excuse of a president in jail and throw away the key!

Good thing they’re armed. You never know when you might encounter a raccoon.

and this is costing several million a day . . . glad they are being put to good use - lol pathetic.

“Be all you can be.”

MAGA Veterans how does this make you feel. Trump disrespects our soldiers

Can you imagine the Fox News meltdown if a democratic president called up the national guard to pick up trash

Absolutely! This must be so humiliating for them.

On second thought bring them to Chicago. Or actually my yard, and then Chicago. I was going to hire a landscaper, but apparently I already paid for ones that have cool camouflage costumes.

Why, did Scum-p fire all DC's refuse collectors and US' park rangers?

At least they aren't shooting citizens.

This. I like this better than bullying ppl. Tho I wonder how much of my tax dollars went into it

I've read that it's a bit over a million a day for just DC. Seems low though.

I guess they’d imprisoned all the immigrant garbage collectors.

That and firing half the damn government. Weird that if you fire people those jobs stop being done.

🎯🎯🎯 The ppl in the thread saying garbage collecting is humiliating, are not it. Garbage collecting is the thing we absolutely cannot live without, in a city. Things get ugly FAST when there’s a strike.

Gotta love the high visibility vests being held under the arm - they do a lot of good there

The war on litter fighters.

Put that on a recruiting poster!

Pretty soon they will be working the farms and construction.

Trump forcing the media to truthfully report he cleaned up the city

🤭

I bet our adversaries love seeing this demeaning of the U.S. military

this seems great, for morale

And recruiting.

This is another example of Trump disrespecting our troops. This is disgusting and he’s humiliating our troops.

At a cost to taxpayers of $1,000/ day per soldier.

... "fighting crime"

So cost effective! Thanks DOGE! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

It’s because they fired everyone and this is their way of keeping the parks clean.

Warrior ethos 😵‍💫

Great recruiting video

I'm sure their families and co-workers, who are covering for them at work, are thrilled to see this. It's like #EarthDay in August!!

There's a huge pile of 💩 at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Like 350 pounds of it. Easy to identify, orange in color, smells like dirty diapers and KFC. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Mongols would like a word with you….

He did call them "suckers and losers." So, humiliating them makes sense.

Im sure they’re loving life right abt now….

Has anyone mentioned picking up the trash (trump etc.)in the Whitehouse

They must be thrilled to be leaving their jobs to pick up garbage in Washington DC. What a joke what a waste of money.

Orange over camouflage.

The tRUMP/YesMan Kegseth deployed National Guard families 👪 must be so proud of their sacrifices in the absence of their mom's & dad's critical mission picking up litter in Washington D.C.. Remember when the Guard soldiers were "Stop Lossed," AKA, "Backdoor Draft"?

And yet, no masks. 🧐

Next they're gonna go crush the WOD with Kegseth. Eat it, China!

Clearly, Trump has restored the warrior ethos of the American military by turning them into beat cops, immigration agents, and now garbage collectors. MAGA!

Pathetic

I feel bad for them. I hope they spread the word that it’s all for Optics.

Nah, National Guard are just weekend warriors, so trash detail is all they're good for. At least they're finally useful for something besides cosplaying as soldiers two weekends a year or whatever.

At least they’re doing something useful

Humiliating

They look really enthusiastic 😂😂😂 Heard that some of their other buddies are mulching.

Every enlisted soldier has done "police call" forever. Just not while deployed for an "emergency"

Send these guys back to their families and their jobs!!! This is not what they signed up for!!!

Hegseth has restored the “warrior ethos” What a crock of shit!! These guys are closer to being Wario than they are to being warriors.

Police call, used to break up boredom or for down time. However, witness passive protest during the bigly beautifly botched parade, this may be another such show of support. Otherwise, there's many other ways to use their time in a more dignified manner. - just an Army Vet with a humble opinion

Remember. You and I are paying for them to do this.

Well there goes next years recruitment numbers

Doesn't mean they can't keep the streets clean, too!

At least they’re not digging graves yet.

That we know of

No candy bar wrapper is safe.

Donald Trump is incompetence personified. Of course he'd waste man hours like this.

I mean I would rather the military cleaning streets or investing in the army corp of engineers to rebuild bridges and plumbing than to kill brown people in other countries for the capital class. That said they should never be used as policing units

So these guys are away from their jobs and families to be trash collectors. I’d be so picked

Sweep, sweep, sweep. youtube.com/shorts/06LnO...

Double arm intervals (some might get it).

The few, the proud, the used for political theater

These men and women have homes, jobs, families to care for and love. Their families are going through hardship . Shame on the president of the United States.

How much is that garbage detail costing taxpayers? Fly them in Feed and house them Give them weapons, uniforms Have them… pick up garbage. Why? Were all the immigrants who normally did it, in a for-profit prison?

Lethal on Litter. Rough on Rubbish.

🤔🤔🤔

They left regular dignified jobs to become garbage collectors but garbage collectors are probably paid more. Their commanders are giving them something to do instead of walking around.Maybe they can build some shelters for the homeless. Oh perish the thought! Too good and useful, that.

My granddad always said: “honest work is honorable work.” Garbage ppl have every bit the dignity of my job (science). The true humiliating job is the dishonorable job they were brought to do. This is far more honorable work than bullying ppl.

Every time I see the guys come through, I always wave and smile and tell them they are doing a great job and I appreciate it. Tried to shake a man's gloved hand last week and he tossed me an elbow instead and shook his dirty gloved hand in front of of me. I got it! We shared a laugh. I respect them.

I worked in a factory for 43 years. Doing all kinds of job and many crappy but necessary. Inhaled shit that will probably give me cancer but I felt good about the work I did. I was quality control of wood. The local UM people would look down on me but I took pride in honest torn jean blood and dirt.

The proud fighting…..oh wait. Trash men.

He’s also got them doing this…

Very sad.

DIGNITY

And not one reporter at the cabinet meeting asked about it

History will show this will be America’s biggest failure when it comes to tRump.

Nah. He hasn’t reached his lowest point yet

DEPARTMENT OF WAR

No respect for the people inside the uniforms. They are just tools to be used at his whim. There's nothing wrong with picking up trash . It would cost taxpayers less to hire employees to "beautify" DC. Deploy the guards to all the red states with high crime Mr.President.