Or mowing his lawn while he drinks on the stoop.

When they said that the National Guard would be clearing out the trash in DC, I didn’t think they meant that literally.

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Add in Sideshow Bob doing prison work at the Naval base.

"Look, Ma! I've got a career!"

The military has gone from fighting terrorism to fighting tossed water bottles under Trump. Obama saluted the troops with a coffee cup in his hand and Fox News and Republicans were outraged by his disrespect. Trump makes the troops pick up discarded coffee cups and they cheer.

The current NG marketing slogan is “Uncommon Is Calling”. That sure as hell fits in this case.

yeah, that'll go over bigly!

Better than the image of uniformed personnel rolling out the red carpet for Putin.

'Prisoner litter-picking programs involve using supervised, low-custody inmates to clean up roadside litter on highways and other public roads as part of community service and correctional programs'. The Military are no better than prisoners as far as Trump is concerned. Wake the f*ck up people!

Motivation has never been higher at the Ministry of war I'll have you know!

Well, it is a transferable skill for when you get out of the military, unlike tank driver.

Another day of taking care of the countries trash.

Be all that you can be.

LOL

War on garbage!

When tRump promised to clean up DC, I didn't think he meant it literally.

Yeah, and run that back to back with an ad of Trump’s birthday parade, where every single soldier looked like they hated being there and really lacked any kind of enthusiasm! Let’s not forget the world’s smallest crowd ever!

Dear Leader.

I remember this photo op as the first time I noticed Trump dragging one foot as he walked and nearly missing the step up into the truck. Nearly a year ago?

Was that the ramp exit where he had three guys trying to walk him down so he wouldn’t fall?

The ramp exit was an earlier incident from the West Point graduation I believe. This photo is from Trump playing trash collector; I believe in rebuttal from the Trump rally where a paid comedian referenced Puerto Rico as a floating island of trash.

He thinks the same of the Constitution.

Dump said he was sending in the military to fight crime. Apparently that meant littering. Maybe they can do jaywalking and removing mattress tags next.

Careful, some jagoff Senator from AL will propose an exec order to the Orange Shitgibbon so the military can invade your home to ensure tags have not been removed, and if they have, deportation unless immediate proof of ownership with video evidence of owner actually ripping the tag is produced.

Or the pictures of airmen kneeling to lay the red carpet for putin

Hell, even Ol' Bone Spurs could've managed a little litter detail.

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Next is painting rocks.

How demeaning to make soldiers act like trash collectors!

the body language of the guardsmen picking up trash suggests regret over the assignment

Be all that you can be!

I'm sure someone's working on a recruiting video parody right now using clips of soldiers on MRAPs passing women with strollers as others pick up trash in neon vests with "Warrior man culture" music in the background.

Policing trash is a hidden secret skill for the military.

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Might need them to harvest produce pretty quick

My son in law just retired from the Guards after serving in the army for 20 years. I cannot describe his disgust. #maddow

If that trash is Trump I’ll volunteer, and I’m Canadian

Or hauling mulch. Talk about humiliating tasks. I'm embarrassed for this country.

Pulled away from their job and family, to pick up trash in DC. 🤡💩

“Come join the dept of war to fight wars…..on litter.!”

SNL got there all the way back in '79 youtu.be/jhioeOeOHsA

I think we called that Area Beautifacation when I was in

Question is, is it really necessary? Is that why they are there? Wouldn't they rather be home with their families?

This! I read Pam Bondi bragging about 300 arrests in D.C. so far. Where are those people? Shouldn't they be doing community service? Are we paying for them to be housed in jail?

But they were cleaning up their own area!

Warrior ethos trash bags...preloaded with bullshit for the low-low price of $1.1M per day...

Or rolling out the red carpet for the war criminal in Elmendorf. I could feel the USAF bristling in Alaska all the way in the lower 48.

I bristled at the photo of our uniformed military on their hands and knees rolling out the red carpet for Putin while being flanked by his security guards as if they were in charge.

Are the soldiers getting paid? If not, it’s the saddest of all govt troop deployments against their own people, possibly in the history of mankind!

Fucking disrespectful.

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They're renaming it the Department of Lethal War Fighting (and Trash Collecting)

Seems better fit for ICE given the number of them pardoned for J6th

#WhiskeyLeaks

Do bone-spurs get you out of trash duty? 🤣

Wait!...I thought they were there because of an emergency...to fight all the crime?

Haha - or this pic of a Neo Nazi 🙋‍♂️

Are they picking up his empty bottles.

😠…. correct me if I’m wrong, please. …… the military is not obligated to carry out unconstitutional, illegal orders.

Next he'll be having them mopping the streets in the middle of a rainstorm. *it's happened

Or raking the forest

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Be all you can be

Or the soldiers rolling out the red carpet for the Russian butcher.

nah, they are not on Trump's golf course picking up trash

Could they not hire the homeless or the Medicaid recipients to do this. (Indicating how absurd their made-up issues are)

picking up very heavy trash, in a manly way

Didn't they say they wanted to clean up the streets?

Trump, who used bone spurs to get out of military service is making service members who have dedicated themselves to serve our country, fight for democracy and peace to pulling out the red carpet for dictators and picking up garbage.

Your idea reminds me of an old Saturday Night Live Navy recruitment commercial. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhio...

No, but every SINGLE Dem running in a state who sent them can!!!

DEPARTMENT OF WAR!!!

They have garbage picking up innocent people and they have soldiers picking up garbage

The National Guard’s new motto: “We pick up more garbage before 9 AM than most people do all day.”

He should join them. Bet that's a job he could do without bungling.

You mean their dreams of enlisting in the Guard didn’t include getting the chance to pick up garbage in the nation’s capital?

The Army, it's not just a job, it's a job cleaning up American streets.

Underqualified yes-men who don't have the stones to look out for the soldiers under their command by telling Trump, "No" to these sham, TV propaganda deployments in US cities. That's Pete Hegseth and that MAGA guy they made Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

These pictures won't appear in recruiting commercials❤️

Post Police duty, as in "Police up those cigarette butts Specialist." The reflective vests are required. Keep the troops busy when there's no mission duties to perform. Can't have everyone standing around or playing grab-ass. The First Sergeant will chew someone out big time if he sees that.

I'm sure the Russians will have a good time with those images.

Or Democrats can use this successfully against Republicans during their election campaigns.

It's horrible how he's treating them.

Well he is on record for calling members of the military “suckers and losers”.

I know... smh. He always finds a new low.

get em in the fields.

Was that Putin's garbage? Moscow okay this use of manpower?

Well, they said they were going to be police calling D.C.

$17 an hour and you too can oppress your fellow citizens.

These troops will soon become disillusioned with their deployment after seeing that there is absolutely no reason for them to be there. Trump will pay a big price for this.

The warrior ethos. There’s no woke military that can pick up trash like that !

😹

Maybe Hegseth can himself pick up cans and bottles and turn the 5 cent deposit into a six pack. Underqualified, misogynistic, racist, buffoon

I hope any of those soldiers who voted for Trump realize what a mistake that was.

It could feature the beloved Native American PSA man smiling as the litter is cleaned up, but if Trump sees any minorities happy about his mess you just know the shit will hit the fan

At 1.1 million dollars a day. VOTE

They're warriors against litter!

Like grabbing ICE and throwing them into vans? Or a different trash?

I can see it now. "It's a war on trash and you're next!"

A federal trash service would be a far better use of taxpayer dollars to help cities than a bunch of armed guards, and it would cost a fraction of the amount as well.

I am thinking of contacting my GOP rep and asking him to ask Trump to send soldiers to my area to clean up the trash at parks, etc. lol

Likewise the democrats should be racking up these same videos and bombard the market(s) with ads.

See also squeaky wheels in stupid parade.

Can't wait for the South Park version.

Be all you can be.

Nothing says "Warfighter" like picking up trash.

America wants YOU! To pick up garbage

“Join the guard for the three Ps Patriotism Protecting your community and Picking up sht”

No, It's "Protecting Pedophiles"

Like, even when its not Fascism Time, "picking up shit" is about 1/3 of what you do when you enlist. This is unironically an *accurate* recruiting pitch

Ha! No kidding? That sounds of course helpful but also super boring

Bases gotta stay clean, about half the work you do as anything below a Sergeant is "weeds and seeds" or "policing the cigarette butts from around the HQ building," or, or, or

The most useful, translatable skill i learned in the Air Force was using a floor buffer machine thingy. (Slight exaggeration, but only slight) Post-service, working in restaraunts, knowing how to use that thing has earned me hours and promotions and shit lol!

(I also learned Excel pretty decently, and how to write reports, but yeah)

Amongst choices, engineering might be the best, seamless transition into civ life

I had a HS teacher, kind of a mentor, who was a vet, he said "I wont recommend enlisting or not, its your call. Here's some borderline useless advice: dont split the middle. Either pick something 100% translatable to civilian life, or pick something cool you'd never otherwise have a chance to do"

That was good advice. Cool stuff is right -however on family day they wouldn't let me drive a Stryker :(

It WAS good advice - I ended up "signals intelligence" sounds cooler than it is, and a lot of the writing/office/speaking skills translate, but I got to work at the actual NSA, I in-person briefed VP Cheney once (not talking politics here, just experiences) and overall it was good for me as a person

My roommate when I lived off base was a crew chief and when my dad visited me in Hawaii I was able to wrangle him a personally guided tour of a C-17 with all the enlisted experts in each area, avionics, configuration, etc, it was maybe my dad's favorite day ever

Serving your country is never a waste of time

I told them, I can drive clutch :)

If it ain't green and don't grow pick it up

I wonder if they keep those Bazooka Joe masks on when they’re spearing hot dog wrappers.

From shock troops to trash men,,, just like that

He’s probably too busy counting the beer money from the can returns.

he ordered them to return any bottles of booze with liquor still inside directly to him

Maybe the military will go back to the "Be All You Can Be" marketing campaign for recruiting with this.

If he's not seeing double.

At least get those soldiers a stick with a nail on the end to poke trash so they don’t have to bend over all day long. This is so embarrassing.

Tough on trash.

Why don't they use those fucking drones to pick shit up?

I’m sure it’s good for moral and building character. JK!!

Arrgghh Morale.

I am so f n offended by this! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😥😥😥😥😥😥

My son is a senior in high school, & is getting recruiting texts from the military We have responded with the incredibly messed up actions of the current commander-in-chief and of SecDef with reasons why, sadly, the US military is no longer a viable option for him Will be adding this to the list

Trump calling them “suckers” and “losers” would fit the act of disrespect perfectly!

This guy is 45, but looks 55. Fucking alcohol is no joke.

More like 65

The War Department? More like Sanitation Department.

Maybe national guard personnel should rethink accepting these assignments.

🙃

Somebody should.

Good one

Short two-post thread about that:

So alpha

It’s better than dean cain

fighting the war on litter!

Lethal fighting force

Hegseth should be out there picking up trash! Good exercise for him. Wonder how recruitment is going.

Is the DNC going to get Machiavellian for once and exploit these images?!?

Be All That You Can Be.

Natl Guard did not fcking sign up for 24 - 7 trash duty

"It's not just a job it's an adventure."

#Warfighter 😐

Better yet. You guys need to set up a Guard Cam that just loops all this stupid shite 24/7 and drive DumOld nuts.

🎶"Be, all that you can be, be a litter guard, in the Army!"🎶

And at the cost of $1.1 million a day.

Use this as well! This way they can see a true alpha! 🤣🤣 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. A real warrior! Look at how he overcomes those bone spurs!

What is the all-time record low for military recruitment? I bet that record will be smashed in 2026 thanks to the DUI hire and his boss.

I'd wager not too long ago, because who wants to be Crazy Donny's killing tool right now? The worst is the loss of the really smart, good people who serve for all the right reasons. All branches.

Policing the area is a long tradition in the Army; usually it means command has no training or other meaningful work for the soldiers.

You know how he likes to do PT with the troops? Maybe he could help them with the trash.

'warrior ethos' :) lolz!!!! Then could have been doing that back at their own bases and been +20 on the moral meter!

Just slap a Godsmack song on that footage. Box it and ship it.

I mean yeah. It's kinda woke!

Maybe he could help. Instead,guzzling,booze,everymday

When they said they are going to take the garbage out of DC, they really meant it

Why are they picking up garbage? Is it to avoid what trump sent them there to do? What did I miss?

"I'm a finely tuned killing machine picking up garbage."

It looks great knowing American Military training includes picking up trash. 🤷‍♂️

I hope that if they should ever go to war we see them in tanks and not using litter pickers.

Picking up trash is just what soldiers do during working hours when they don't have something better to do....yes it's stupid that the National Guard is doing it in DC but this is just part of normal daily life for the military

I agree. The important phrase "when they don't have something better to do" is key. If they have nothing better to do, then let them go home where they are needed for something better to do.

Right, the dumb thing is that they're in DC in the first place

And that ad should, of course, have the driving bass music that indicates "Testosterone! Adventure!"

WHAT A DISGUSTING AND APPALLING USE OF THE NG AND OUR TAX DOLLARS. THE NATIONAL GUARD DOES NOT DESERVE THIS DISRESPECT. THEY ARE NOT NEEDED WHERE TRUMP IS SENDING THEM. IT IS JUST POLITICAL RETRIBUTION AGAINST BLUE STATES AND BLACK GOVERNORS AND MAYORS. IF YOU DON'T SEE THIS YOU ARE WILLFULLY BLIND.

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War, what is it good for? Sweeping DC sidewalks Absolutely worthless Say it again

"There's 'strong' and there's 'picking up candy wrappers in DC' strong.