trump loves his dine and dash

[Walt]

Trump Is Stiffing the National Guard Soldiers He Sent to L.A.​

Malcolm Ferguson
Thu, June 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM EDT
2 min read

The thousands of National Guardsmen President Trump sent to Los Angeles in an authoritarian power play are working for free.

More than a dozen guardsmen told Military.com that they remain unpaid, as they have yet to receive official activation orders. Receiving such orders would allow them to receive pay, Tricare health benefits, and Department of Veterans Affairs eligibility. Without them, the troops dispatched aren’t getting anything.

Trump’s abrupt deployment of the guardsmen, against the wishes of Los Angeles’s mayor and California’s governor, circumvented executive norms and has resulted in thousands of soldiers who aren’t sure if they’ll be compensated for the work they’re doing. Guardsmen have also complained about their living conditions, as many of them are sleeping on cots at a Naval Base on the edge of Los Angeles.


Forcing people to work for no pay is very on brand for the president. He owes the city of Albuquerque nearly half a million dollars in unpaid safety fees for a 2019 rally. He did a similar dash in cities across the country, racking up millions of dollars in unpaid fees. Some places, like Nassau County, gave up on trying to bill Trump entirely and just ate the $1 million he owed them. Similar instances occurred in Eerie, Pennsylvania; Tuscon, Arizona; and Green Bay and Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin. “He’s welcome here, but we need to have our bills paid. Any expenses incurred by us for him being here, or we don’t really want him here,” Prairie Du Chien Mayor Dave Hemmer said last year. “We are a smaller city and if we incurred expenses like that, we expect to be reimbursed. Or we’d say, ‘Don’t come.’” In his private life as a businessman, Trump frequently refused to pay contractors—hundreds have claimed he stiffed them for completed work as a private citizen.

Now the guardsmen are getting the same treatment.

Trump Is Stiffing the National Guard Soldiers He Sent to L.A.

As usual, Trump is refusing to foot the bill.

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[Walt]

I keep thinking back to his birthday parade, and he lackluster marching... I wonder if that was a rebellion against the poor treatment the military has been getting under trump.

 

[Althea]

I keep thinking back to his birthday parade, and he lackluster marching... I wonder if that was a rebellion against the poor treatment the military has been getting under trump.

Or at the very least the terrible accommodations they endured leading up to the birthday rainwalk.

 

[goat]

I keep thinking back to his birthday parade, and he lackluster marching... I wonder if that was a rebellion against the poor treatment the military has been getting under trump.

Walt is finally learning how the world works.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Walt is finally learning how the world works.

I very much doubt it.

 

[goat]

I very much doubt it.

Militaries started out as slaves yet Walt holds the notion that Trump came up with the idea of treating militaries poorly.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Militaries started out as slaves yet Walt holds the notion that Trump came up with the idea of treating militaries poorly.

I very much doubt that Walt is a real person.

 

[goat]

I very much doubt that Walt is a real person.

We're in trouble. Too bad there was no one here talking about this stuff 4 or 5 years ago.

 

[EdwinA]

So how many paydays have they missed, given the two weeks or so they've been there? lol you tards are just getting too silly.

You think they get paid every hour or so, like your mommies and daddies working the streets around the crackhead hourly rates motel?

 

[Hawkeye10]

We're in trouble. Too bad there was no one here talking about this stuff 4 or 5 years ago.

In a universe where performance matters they pulled this stunt.

 

[EdwinA]

lol like sleeping on cots never happens in military life? lol too funny.

They usually stay in 5 star hotels and eat big steaks three tines a day! Until TRUMP!!!! WAhhhhhhh!!!!

WAlt has really outdone himself in stupid posting with this one.

 

[goat]

lol like sleeping on cots never happens in military life? lol too funny.

They usually stay in 5 star hotels and eat big steaks three tines a day! Until TRUMP!!!! WAhhhhhhh!!!!

WAlt has really outdone himself in stupid posting with this one.

An old investigative journalist trick is to call up all the four-star hotels to see which ones are full and why. If a lot or all of them were full it meant a military action was going down. Muscle doesn't stay at a five-star.

 

[EdwinA]

An old investigative journalist trick is to call up all the four-star hotels to see which ones are full and why. If a lot or all of them were full it meant a military action was going down. Muscle doesn't stay at a five-star.

Most 'journalists' covering the ME stay at 3 and 4 star hotels. GAZA had several, kind of weird for a 'devastated oppressed refugee camp' to have them, eh?

Google Search

Lebanon has a lot of them, too.

 

[Earl]

I keep thinking back to his birthday parade, and he lackluster marching... I wonder if that was a rebellion against the poor treatment the military has been getting under trump.

What is wrong with you, Never Right Walter?

I posted yesterday thatC

Troop movements often cause delays.

Get a clue.

 

[TOP]

JD met with the troops....was there coverage of how them complaining? Of how they're "suffering"?

What is wrong with you, Never Right Walter?

I posted yesterday thatC

Troop movements often cause delays.

Get a clue.

He does start the Strangest threads...this one, too, will pass away....

 

[Walt]

Or at the very least the terrible accommodations they endured leading up to the birthday rainwalk.

Something was happening at trump's birthday parade. Soldiers can march better than that.

 

[Walt]

Walt is finally learning how the world works.

I have always known that if you treat people like crap, they will often quietly get revenge. I think trump is learning that now.

 

[EdwinA]

What is wrong with you, Never Right Walter?

I posted yesterday thatC

Troop movements often cause delays.

Get a clue.

My father's pay took almost a year to reach him in the Philippines campaign and into Japan. lol that's why gambling was so popular.

 

[Earl]

My father's pay took almost a year to reach him in the Philippines campaign and into Japan. lol that's why gambling was so popular.

Yes, I saw it often.

Never Right Walter never served and has no clue of the hardships that the military endures.

I am close to putting him down at the level of Loony Moony and Pobre.

 

[Walt]

My father's pay took almost a year to reach him in the Philippines campaign and into Japan. lol that's why gambling was so popular.

The question here is when they entered the Army. Right now, these troops are not in the Army. They are not getting any Army benefits. The Army benefits are not trying to find them, because they are not in the Army.

I would be like having your father not in the Army, but serving for a year. It would simply not happen.