How is it legal for him to treat our troops as mercenaries?

[dewsgirl]

I imagine when the constitution waa written, they never imagined this scenario.

[atreides1]

1. It isn't

But with no one willing to step up and stop him...he'll do whatever he pleases!!!

[getagrip_already]

2. Well, by saying they pay us he means they pay him.....

He doesn't give a crap about the treasury. He cares about the trumpery.

So when he said Saudi Arabia put a billion in the bank, you have to ask, which bank? Was he referring to the kushner bailout? That was close to a billion dollars worth of buyout for 666 park ave.

Or did he mean something else.

Follow the money and you will find how it's illegal.

[onecaliberal]

3. Ask #MoscowMitch

[gratuitous]

4. Remember those joint UN military exercises some years ago?

Conservatives lost their shit because American troops might be given orders by foreign officers (never mind that those officers were in the military of our closest allies). Here's Trump, renting out our troops to Saudi Arabia or South Korea. Who orders mercenaries around? The folks who pay them. Anything from those righteously aggrieved conservatives? Not a peep.

[Ohiogal]

5. This (if true)

Is outrageous and unacceptable!

The Dems should be shouting the roof off over this!

[jberryhill]

6. I'm guessing you've never seen DD Form 2536

You want a drill team at your next event?

https://www.honorguard.af.mil/Portals/21/documents/AFD-070224-001.pdf

PURPOSE: This form is used to request all Armed Forces MUSICAL UNIT, TROOP, COLOR/HONOR GUARD, and/or EXHIBIT/EQUIPMENT participation in public events. The information is required to evaluate the event for appropriateness and compliance with DoD policies and for coordination with the units involved. Please complete all sections.
...


3. Department of Defense policies require that Armed Forces participation in public events will be provided at no additional cost to the Government. The sponsor is required to pay, when necessary, the standard Military Services allowance for quarters and meals for all Armed Forces participants and for other services which have been determined in advance by the Military Services and agreed to by the sponsor. Transportation and meal costs are not usually incurred when support is provided from a local military installation. However,circumstances may dictate that reimbursement for any or all of these costs maybe necessary. All costs are binding after a unit, personnel, or exhibit has arrived at an event site, even though weather conditions or other unforeseen circumstances force the event to be cancelled.

[Bettie]

7. This year Saudi Arabia

if he is still in office after this, he'll be renting them to North Korea and anyone else who is willing to pay him (him, not us)!

I can no longer adequately express the loathing I have for this vaguely human-shaped mound of dung.

[Scotch-Irish]

8. Well said, Bettie. I'm with you.

He'd sell his own daughter to the butcher if the price was right.