The National Guard is removing trash, mulching and removing graffiti in D.C. “I think it’s nice, as a D.C. resident,” said one Guard member. “But there are different things we could be doing.”
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Donald Trump has turned the National Guard into landscapers
aug 27, 2025, 2:07 pm • 0 0 • view
We are looking forward to visiting in September. 🙏
aug 27, 2025, 2:02 pm • 0 0 • view
This is so disrespectful to these Guard members. youtu.be/RZXsmicwSfI
aug 27, 2025, 2:02 pm • 7 1 • view
Presidential Workforce, Presidential Police Force. Aka National Guard. Any other titles?
aug 27, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
This is not what I imagine the national guards doing, not by a long shot. Doesn't DC has their own sanitation workforce?
aug 27, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
if there is so much crime fighting, how do they find the time for yard work?
aug 27, 2025, 2:03 pm • 14 1 • view
There is no “emergency”; they are illegally deployed.
aug 27, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
If Trump & DOGE hadn’t fired the workers it would be getting done anyway.
aug 27, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Holy shit that is embarrassing.
aug 27, 2025, 7:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Just like the North Korean soldiers do. This is how dictators show their "tough" side. The American dictator is doing the same. Meanwhile, had any other president done this, the media like the Washington post, would have been screaming. Now? Silence. Fuck the media. They capitulated.
aug 27, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
How embarrassing for the National Guard.
aug 27, 2025, 2:02 pm • 8 0 • view
They have to leave their regular jobs for this.
aug 27, 2025, 4:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Meanwhile, migrant landscapers are thrown to the ground by thugs, copied, and hauled away by masked men with guns.
aug 27, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 0 • view
*ziptied
aug 27, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
That's a really expensive way to pick trash. Well done America. 🤣
aug 27, 2025, 2:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Why aren't they arresting the felon squatting in the White House?
aug 27, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
If there's so much crime in D.C., why is the National Guard doing park maintenance like mulching & trash removal? It was never about crime. PLUS, Trump/DOGE decimated the National Park budget and fired 90% of the D.C. Park maintenance crew. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
aug 27, 2025, 3:36 pm • 2 3 • view
A National Mulching Emergency in DC!! OMG! Send in the Marines too!!
aug 27, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
"Be All You Can Be!" Grab a rake and a trashbag Paid less than yard workers #TeamFelon #Unfit
aug 27, 2025, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe they should rake the forest floor to stop 🛑 the fires 🔥
aug 27, 2025, 2:06 pm • 2 1 • view
What’s MOS for this duty? 😁 Landscaping Specialist?
aug 27, 2025, 2:03 pm • 1 0 • view
the new deal included a massive public works program that put ppl to work. Maybe this is The Orange New Deal
aug 27, 2025, 2:05 pm • 1 0 • view
So all the crime fighting work is done, eh? They could be training for deployment, instead they are picking up trash for the moment "Batman, hand me that hoe!"
aug 27, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I get the feeling some people are more concerned about the Guard's PR than the actual state of D.C.'s streets.
aug 27, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view
The National Guard serves as a vital component of the U.S. military, with a dual mission to defend the homeland and support overseas operations, responding to both state emergencies and federal missions. www.nationalguard.mil/About-the-Gu...
aug 27, 2025, 2:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Ignore all the really bad parts of the city and just do cleanup and play soldier for tourist pictures
aug 27, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
We took these troops away from their families and jobs to be gardeners...wonderful.
aug 27, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
God, the Washington Post is shit now.
aug 27, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I guess it beats being board, but it’s a complete waste of such important manpower!
aug 27, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
All of those pictures of Guardsmen standing around in Union Station or the Dupont Circle Krispy Kreme finally struck a nerve with someone in the chain of command. Guardsmen working as landscapers and litter patrol isn't a huge improvement on image.
aug 27, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe having the National Guard should be rebranded as replacing landscaping people who were deported instead of them taking over a city. I'd be okay with free mowing and tree trimming and trash removal.
aug 27, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Good thing they’re now armed. Never know when the mulch might rise up and attack.
aug 27, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
It seems to me like nonviolent offenders could be doing this stuff while living at home… 🤦🏻♀️ …instead of sitting in prison, having their lives ruined over a stupid mistake, and costing the taxpayers tons of money!
aug 27, 2025, 2:14 pm • 1 1 • view
Maybe they should be deployed permanently around every school in the country?
aug 27, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
There are youtubers that do this for free.
aug 27, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Our military is being used to clean up trash, remove graffiti, and do landscaping in DC. Isn’t this proof there is no emergency?
aug 27, 2025, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view
They thought they’d be doing some hardcore shit like busting up drug gangs but instead they’re picking up trash for the tourists. Enjoy the community service, guys.
aug 27, 2025, 2:13 pm • 1 0 • view
I really like how you found probably the one guy in the outfit who is perfectly happy to miss work to pick up trash in the streets, and featured his quote instead of any other ones. Although I suspect they may have been unprintable.
aug 27, 2025, 2:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Spread mulch, not fear!
aug 27, 2025, 2:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Gosh, optics really tell the tale don’t they! Guys carrying weapons marching the streets vs guys carrying weapons mulching in the park. All to make it seem benevolent instead of authoritarian.
aug 27, 2025, 3:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Our tax dollars at work On the whims of a lunatic our military is humiliated on a regular basis Are they armed while spreading mulch? Perhaps one of them maintains guard on them while overseeing their trash picking up & mulch spreading They must be protected against DC mulch haters
aug 27, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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.
aug 27, 2025, 5:46 pm • 0 0 • view
There are low- and high-crime areas in DC. The Guard aren't in the latter.
aug 27, 2025, 4:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I like the hi-viz over their camouflage - do they want to be seen or not?!
aug 27, 2025, 3:58 pm • 1 0 • view
What a waste of our tax dollars. What's this have to do with national security? Looks like our military has far too big a chunk of our budget. Hire landscapers to do landscaping.
aug 29, 2025, 12:38 am • 0 0 • view
So let me get this clear: the trash, mulching and graffiti are the "public safety emergency" and "a situation of complete and total lawlessness"!? I would laugh until I cry if it wasn't as bizar as it is.
aug 27, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Not an Onion article. Oh, and Fuck Bezos.
aug 27, 2025, 2:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Everytime theres an opinion by the 'editorial board', it's probably written by Bezos himself!
aug 27, 2025, 2:01 pm • 2 0 • view
A bit ridiculous for our national guard.
aug 27, 2025, 2:10 pm • 1 0 • view
BULLSHIT! These folks all have DAY JOBS that they're absent from and losing money to support themselves and their families.
aug 27, 2025, 2:16 pm • 9 0 • view
OMG they are laying mulch?!?
aug 27, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
They need to pick up the damn Cheeto and mulch it
aug 27, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Only thing that can stop litter is a good guy with a gun
aug 27, 2025, 2:40 pm • 1 0 • view
So they're taking other people's jobs?
aug 27, 2025, 2:02 pm • 19 0 • view
Your brain has stopped thinking
aug 27, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
The few. The proud.
aug 27, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 27, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
well, i guess removing trash is even better than "marching up and down the square" 🤭
aug 27, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
This is LITERALLY FACISM people. I can’t stop shaking. How long are we going to allow this? 🤦🏿♀️👩🏿🦼
aug 27, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
So, our "armed forces" will take the place of Hispanic workers? Are they going to pick crops next? Build houses? Serve at restaurants?
aug 27, 2025, 2:03 pm • 37 2 • view
I heard they are picking Oranges in Florida
aug 27, 2025, 2:08 pm • 2 0 • view
“Service guarantees citizenship! Would you like to know more?” Soon.
aug 27, 2025, 2:04 pm • 13 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 2:15 pm • 8 0 • view
I would look to see which people in the armed forces . If they are all Black and Hispanic then I think the ACLU needs to check in on it.
aug 27, 2025, 2:10 pm • 3 0 • view
I noticed the exact same thing
aug 27, 2025, 2:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Boy are the locals in for a shock when the mid-terms get contested. The boys and girls in fatigues will be mulching fuck all then I promise you.
aug 27, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Sad thing is these people have regular jobs that probably pay more than they're getting for quelling this "crime emergency."
aug 27, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Our tax dollars at work.
aug 27, 2025, 2:01 pm • 11 0 • view
They can pick themselves up while holding an M4? Almost impressive. Yes, I am calling the DC National Guardsmen that have followed an illegal order to invade an American city without cause trash. The will never escape the shame and dishonor. Never.
aug 27, 2025, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view
So embarrassing!!!
aug 27, 2025, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 2:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Doge probably fired all the people who would normally do these jobs. What a joke.
aug 27, 2025, 2:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Such a waste of taxpayer dollars!!
aug 27, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
This is a freakin' embarrassment. Using our NG as a sideshow to distract from his Epstein mess.
aug 27, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
See! We found people to do the work the undocumented were doing! 🤭
aug 27, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
hmmm maybe to help combat homelessness and unemployment .. let's give the National Park Service the funds to HIRE PEOPLE to pick up trash and mulch and remove graffiti - and send the National Guard HOME. Or better yet.. AmeriCorps to do these jobs - for young people.
aug 27, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view
*Soft-pedalling intensifies*
aug 27, 2025, 3:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Cracking down on crime!
aug 27, 2025, 2:01 pm • 3 0 • view
This is the kind of thing my church does in our community. What an insult to our military.
aug 27, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
When they come to Colorado, they can rake the forest to prevent forest fires
aug 27, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Pick up that trash, military servant!
aug 27, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
"And they will beat their swords into ploughshares."
aug 27, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Wait, how do they have the time to do this with all the crime in DC?!
aug 28, 2025, 3:50 am • 0 0 • view
Have they propped their firearms up against a tree?
aug 27, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
At what cost? Doesn’t DC have a sanitation or public works dept? And, Police? Fund them to meet the needs.
aug 27, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm sure they don't mind leaving their jobs and families behind for this emergency landscaping.
aug 27, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Stop writing articles that make authoritarianism sound appealing. The admin has deployed the military against its own citizens.
aug 27, 2025, 2:13 pm • 5 2 • view
This is the administration trying to make the National Guard look helpful and nonviolent. They will do the same thing in other cities. Then NG will be guarding ICE detention facilities. Followed by them doing crowd control against protesters. It will not be long before a civilian is shot.
aug 27, 2025, 2:11 pm • 2 1 • view
Arresting the pedophile President?
aug 27, 2025, 2:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Aren't there natural disaster areas that still need attention? Surely that would be better use.
aug 27, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 1 • view
Can they mow the tall grass in the medians on Piney Branch road? That would really Make America Great Again.
aug 27, 2025, 2:07 pm • 0 0 • view
President Pedo has always thought of the military as losers so he probably likes demeaning them with busy work.
aug 27, 2025, 9:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn’t nice to know that these National Guard members have been pulled away from their states, their families, their regular jobs to do the work that would have been done by the regular National Park Service IF DOGE hadn’t fired 98% of them!!! 🤬
aug 27, 2025, 3:34 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 2:15 pm • 7 2 • view
This just makes their presence look even more pointless. Also, a city sanitation initiative and/or actual aid for homeless people would be exponentially cheaper for tax payer than ALL of this
aug 27, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Different things, yes. I have an example in mind. The Louisiana National Guard is in D.C. during hurricane season.
aug 28, 2025, 6:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe they can hut for wabbits, too.
aug 27, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Plenty of garbage to pick up at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW.
aug 27, 2025, 4:08 pm • 7 0 • view
Another cost-effective use of public money from Cankles McTaco-tits. 🙄🙄🙄
aug 27, 2025, 2:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Good job, DC has new sanitation workers at a cost of over a million a day. Such governmental efficiency. Much win. This’ll bring down the price of groceries in no time to the point they’ll be paying us in the stores.
aug 27, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
From left to right: I shit myself I smell shit I shit myself
aug 27, 2025, 4:45 pm • 1 1 • view
I bet they are, because they ran off all the immigrants willing to do that work. Sure happy they have those weapons now to shoot litterers or whatever.
aug 27, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
They also cut a billion dollars from the DC budget that would of played for workers to do this that would of cost us less and would of helped the economy
aug 27, 2025, 2:36 pm • 2 0 • view
This is DT treating the National Guard as his personal landscapers.
aug 27, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
So the federal government could have just paid a local landscaping company to do this?
aug 27, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Not National Guard They are National Gardeners Next up? Puppy Poo Patrol
aug 27, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
A MILLION DOLLARS A DAY. Imagine how many people who are just trying to feed their families by finding similar jobs by lining up at Home Depot only to be rounded up & sent to an inhumane prison could be hired for $1 MILLION per day! FDT!!!
aug 27, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
@bencollins.bsky.social had to check this wasn't an Onion article
aug 27, 2025, 2:02 pm • 14 0 • view
Battle of trash! 🤣
aug 27, 2025, 2:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Can they mow my lawn? I’m a taxpayer.
aug 27, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
What a wasteful and disrespectful misuse of servicemembers to support political theater. There is no emergency. Let them go home.
aug 27, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
It would be hilariously poetic if all of this impotent “crime busting” only resulted in Trump inadvertently demonstrating that many services can be accomplished through bid-budgeted socialism.
aug 27, 2025, 2:13 pm • 0 0 • view
The GOP could have just funded the National Park Service to do its job.
aug 27, 2025, 2:05 pm • 11 1 • view
For such cost savings focused sociopaths, they could’ve had the guys in lockup do it for a penny on the hundred grand.
aug 27, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Pay attention. Donald Felon Trump is the greatest threat to world stability and peace. Trump is a lunatic, sadistic, narcissistic and arrogant old man who has learned nothing good from old age. Trump thinks he can rules the whole world. Wake up world, while there's still time.
aug 27, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Weird, sounds like there’s not a lot of crime in DC or something
aug 27, 2025, 2:02 pm • 23 0 • view
Stephen Miller never wanted to pick up his own trash. That's why he has the military. youtu.be/0FJ7gqoyeY0?...
aug 27, 2025, 9:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 27, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 1 • view