Will they be raking forests next?

They're raking! That means no forest fires! We are living Idiocracy.

what an absolute abuse of government. upended people's lives for political reasons and then turning them into expensive gardeners. this rates five fingers. 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

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Guardsmen are civilians that occasionally do army stuff. When they are deployed it is a hardship to them, their families and their employers. This political stunt is insulting. Trump cares about nobody

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What does Trump call them again? Oh yeah, Suckers and Losers.

“We’ve got to take care of the floors. The floors of the forest,” Trump said Other countries do it differently—president of Finland said they spend a lot of time “on raking and cleaning. They don’t have any problem and when it is, it’s a very small problem.”

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and so far, the biggest threat was a flying "submarine sandwich" 🤣🤣🤣

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There were those two mean 15 year olds.

Oh, you mean Seal Teen Six? The other four weren't allowed to stay up late on a school night.

Odd you mention the ages as from my information, basic training bases are loaded with young MAGA's 17-18 year olds.

The war on waste.

ridiculous! Waste of Federal dollars! 💵 💵

Only rakes can prevent forest fires.

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My dearest Martha, The war has been brutal. Limbs lost...trees, mostly....and I have misplaced my beloved work gloves, the ones you embroidered for me so kindly. Why does Ken Burns keep filming me? Who is playing that violin?

What a disgrace

Another forever war, great. Just what we need.

The lunacy that is the Trump WH occupation Part 2 summed up perfectly.

All those businesses at home, have to hold a now vacant job for these NG members. They have to eat that cost. Just like the cut in pay to go from their job to active duty. So now my federal tax dollars are paying them instead of their employer. AND no I don't care about mulch in DC

Someone has to do the work of the people they are deporting . It sure as hell won't be the little Nazi Stephan Miller .

I guess Pres. Chump could arm-twist the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) into conducting a civil site clean-up to satisfy his urge to keep DC tidy, rather than misusing the NG for this purpose. What a chump!

Maybe he can send them to the national parks, to rake the forests.

heavy casualties were sustained during the rake offensive

The battle against littering…now that’s a battle that will go down in history.

Turing our National Guard troops into landscape maintenance workers is ridiculous!

Hey, wait a minute. What’s that white dude doing in there???

Alright! Rake those forests! It’ll prevent fires! Or so I’m told.

Mulching, mulching men..... I joined the army to be a mulching man!🎶

Mulch to the right of them, Compost to the left of them, Unstoppable Hosta’s in front of them, Rake’d and Hoe’d; Boldly they edged well Into the jaws of poison ivy Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred. Everything’s just Smurfy 🇺🇸 ⚖️ 🗽

$1 million/day. 200 park employees cut to 20 by DOGE for "waste, fraud, and abuse" Now service members, at much higher cost, doing this work. Any economists available to calculate the savings, current and future? Imagine what the DC park service could do with $1 million/day??

Well, we wondered who would provide landscaping services once Stephen Miller started rounding up every Hispanic person that he could lay his claws on. Now we know . . . the US military.

Whoa! What happens when the leaves turn colors? Call in reinforcements?

additional found footage

Sent into the maelstrom without a leaf blower 🙁

Gotta wonder if they are following orders or just guys trying to get something useful done while stuck there.

How much do they make? Immigrants that they detained can do all these.

I think they have no business being there (and I suspect some of them - if not many - would agree). That being said, I am glad that at least they do something useful instead of intimidating people (which is why they were originally sent there). How they must hate Hegseth (and with good reason).

I bet they're so glad they signed up to defend their nation and got sent to pick up trash and sweep leaves instead. This is gonna be absolutely great for morale.

I know youre making a joke.....but truth is.....IT MOST LIKELY IS. These people are still residents. The fact that they are spending the time doing some form of community service versus being a mindless bludgeoning tool upon their neighbors for taco tits ego is a breath of fresh air for them.

Oh I'm so glad they also wander around my subway with guns and it's a fun little trip for the.....

I frequently wish that there was a cleanup corps for young people 18-30yo to work at beautifyinh our cities and towns. Like a rebuild of the CCC.

They have arrested all the landscapers. So this is who will soon be cutting lawns and mulching yards.

How sad. On their knees in front of Putin and then turned into a bunch of day laborers.

The Nerd Reich Their creed: We are White, wealthy, have tech supremacy. And we have contempt for the masses and a disdain for democracy. and now there is a BlueSky account calling them out for what they are- opportunist racists who have seized power: tinyurl.com/yv2j4dbk

OM Gosh, the trashed picked up and now the leaves raked up, yes I see where now the streets in D.C. are so much safer. Is there still a DOGE department? I mean this is not only waste but abuse of government resources. 🤷‍♀️

I think he has troops around the White House to make him feel safe. You know not many people like him.

The serial rapist is worried about the rise of the public against him, especially in the blue cities. He is sending the military to these cities in an attempt to thwart a rebellion. What is required is a rebellion from the red cities, when will these MAGAts reach their breaking point? Just sayin'

Wait, shouldn't they be raking the forest floor? God I hated Army "busywork"

My comment when I saw this earlier: “This is a freakin’ travesty. Mr. Bone Spurs, you are a disgrace.”

Maybe they'll rake up the Epstein Files.

Come and Sift

A Debris Too Far

All trash on the Washington front

The Battle of the Mulch

Raking Private Ryan

Black Mulch Down

Oh, thank Christ. There were far too many holes that needed dug and then filled in.

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What The Hell?

Antifa is hiding under those leaves somewhere.

Op zoek naar Amerikaanse staatsburgers?

Est-ce qu’on peut en avoir au Canada pour faire du nettoyage de parc?

From now on they are the Mulchers

Well at least they arent just standing around. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Cleaning the streets of DC. New meaning to police call.

Each of these national guardsmen need to understand the Nazi leader is humiliating them on purpose.

What a waste of their ability and their time away from their jobs and families!

OMG... 😂

So they are gardeners and trash cleaners?

$1 million per day it is costing taxpayers. Picking up trash & raking leaves. Even without these needless expenses the National Guard should not be here. This is not what the National Guard is for. Who will be ready when there is a real emergency and who will fund them?

Thank you for reposting.

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Donald drains the swamp, finally!

Great morale booster for those National Guard men and women.

Gonna do wonders for recruitment, no doubt.

They'd rather do this than open fire on their fellow countrymen.

This is very degrading to our soldiers. Not only are they subjected to going against their own country, but now picking up trash. If I were them, I’d rebel. Stop taking orders from a dictator.

"At least 105 members of the deployment sought counseling from behavioral health officers, and at least one company commander and one battalion commander who objected to the mission were reassigned to work unrelated to the mobilization, the Guard officers said."

"Some troops became so disgruntled that there were several reports of soldiers defecating in Humvees and showers at the Southern California base where the troops are stationed, prompting tightened bathroom security."

holy shit they gonna rake the forests next?? trim the hedges, they are putting garbage people and landscapers out of work, they took their jobs!!!!

How is it possible that not every American is embarrassed by this?

Enculturation.

Commission the statue now.

they arrest and assault landscapers? seems like poetic justice

A+

Raking the forests. Isn't that what he promised?

Even, when Trump is trying to be a dictator, he is just a clown!

The National Park service would like their jobs back!

they work like their real jobs were in IT.

That's so degrading and embarrassing. Most of my family is military. Makes me sick to see this

Wonder how many of them are pissed yet?

Taking care of DC's lawn maintenance instead of being home taking care of their own

Can they pick strawberries for hours, milk cows, landscape, and then send the dozen roubles they earned back home to put a kid through college and keep their wife from riding off with the neighbor’s wife?

Maybe the idiots in the Trump admin might increase funding to Washington so they might employ more police officers AND maintenance people. Such solutions would be long-term & much cheaper. But, of course, that is not what Trump is seeking. He wants to stoke anger, to make headlines, the power grab.

Since a lot of people who do this type of work are now afraid to even show their faces, the #TrumpRegime is using the #NationalGuard as gardeners and landscapers. If I were a member of the National Guard I would be embarrassed.

so good for military readyness. im sure this is going to help win WW3. also, so much cheaper than hiring all those people we just deported to who knows where

Knee deep in crime

The photo is unfortunately reminiscent of the Korean Veterans memorial amongst similar trees on the mall, but replacing the guns with rakes. I feel bad for the people deployed away from their families for this BS "emergency".

A real army would just bomb that crap!!!

Waste of military talent and taxpayer money in Trump's America?

This is one helluva recruiting video.

Can I get them to mulch my flower beds?

Finally we’re raking our nation’s parks and forests. 🙏

Came here to say the same thing.

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It is humiliation for the national guard

Taking out the trash

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Is that what putin told him to do?

trump could send the troops to California to rake the forests next.

They will soon be working the farms and construction.

Kind of wondering what the price tag is on this for us taxpayers

I am eager to start reading all of the "war letters" from this campaign similar to what we read over on Twitter a few years back. 🤣

What a fucking joke.

could have just hired landscapers for a fraction of the cost

I hope they are ok. Were any splinters reported? 🙏

-‘twas a massacre……nary a a stray leaf survived 😢 -but for real can trunt stop wasting our talented uniformed services professional’s time?

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They missed a sack of trash at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Is there a citizen hotline we can call to dispatch a battalion for clean-up?

I would send the DNP’s number but they only have a website. Would have been funny, then tragically sad when they didn’t listen.

Disgraceful to use them this way. Corruption and abuse are the hallmarks of this current administration. Wake up people!

Four Seasons Total Landscaping would like a word.

Russia!

Perfect

Oh, they're humiliating them. Interesting. I guess bc they don't have parent companies who can turn the screws on them and force them to pay up and signal submission a different way? Equal parts fascinating and stomach flipping.

When they will be deployed to Mar-A-Lago to do the yard work and housekeeping?

heroes they deserve a lifetime discount of 10% off when they buy frozen yogurt because - MURIKKAA

fierce

I'm trying to imagine Bob Hope jokes for his annual Christmas Special with the troops.

They volunteered to defend the country when the shit hit the fan, not pick up dog shit in the park!!! WTF

Very cutesy, very demure. 🫶😂

Hey, I thought it was supposed to be “beautiful grass”?

Sweeping the forests.

Good boys!

Trump sees the troops as janitors and red-carpet roller outers ... for dictators.

Remember: they are suckers and losers in tRump’s eyes.

How angry do these guys have to be? And how much tax dollars is it costing?

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Aren't there city workers whose job this actually is? He is absolutely debasing these troops. They have been pulled from their families and jobs.... for this.

They’ve been told to leave their jobs and families to RAKE LEAVES?!??

🇨🇦 appreciates the "U".🍻

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That dude’s not wearing his PPE. Last straw for you buddy. You’re off the Leaf Strike Force. The LSF will not tolerate blisters.

Trump Janitors 😂 #QuitNow

I want our trillion dollars back.

Anyone know what the DC budget is for lawn maintenance? I think DC could hire a more experienced company than this one.

It's called "extra duty": a task that is performed either as a punishment, or because there's really no scheduled training. For most soldiers, this is a distinction without a difference.

This was the work of the immigrants, they were driven out, now the soldiers have to do the work of cleaning the homeland

Wow, they really are cleaning up DC, aren't they?

Is it really a threat to American democracy if it can be raked and bagged?

Our boys in khaki are there in DC to make sure that terrorist-minded leaves and trash will never think to litter our parks and public spaces...for at least a week.

Oscar the grouch is jealous

The cost of freedom is . . .mulch?

Me: "What's that ribbon for, Soldier?" Soldier: "D.C. Cleanup, 2025- with bronze oak leaf!"

Raking forests finally for Chairman Cow!🙃

Terrifying. Fascism is here.

"Yup see them too, those are rakes man"

I never thought Anonymous would crank out the funniest pic of the moment. That’s hilarious.

Bring the D.C. Troops home!

This is what a dictator does. Military is his own personal work force.

I hope they’re getting paid.

Quickly evolving Defense Department > Department of War > Department of Sanitation

Cleaning the parks. Yep there’s our hard working military at work. Cleaning out the criminals in the park.

I don’t blame the troops. I’m sure the vast majority would prefer not to be doing this.