Trump claims 'very wealthy person' offered to cover military paychecks during government shutdown

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Trump claims ‘very wealthy person’ offered to cover military paychecks during government shutdown
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-claims-very-wealthy-person-offered-to-cover-military-paychecks-during-government-shutdown/ar-AA1OtFpO

President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that a “very wealthy” donor had offered to pay members of the military during the ongoing government shutdown — a generous offer that he said he turned down for now.

“I actually have a man who is a very wealthy person, he said, ‘If there is any money necessary, shortfall for the paying of the troops, I will pay it,’ meaning he will pay it,” Trump said during a meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei at the White House.

“I said, ‘We are not going to need it, we will take care of our troops,’ ” Trump said he responded.

The White House did not respond to a series of questions about the identity of the donor, the amount of money offered or if the deal will remain a possibility as the shutdown drags on.

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I wonder who is rich enough?
The obvious would be Elon Musk, but I'm guessing someone with less public notoriety.
Not all billionaires are publicity hounds.

[tanyev]

1. Ooh, did they have tears in their eyes and call you Sir?

[Emile]

2. Well we know one thing, the rich guy wasn't Trump!

[Turbineguy]

3. Sounds like he did not offer trump a vig.

[sop]

4. Privatize the U.S. Military?

[flvegan]

5. The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein.

I mean, why not? He's just making shit up anyway.

[DenaliDemocrat]

6. It would be illegal

Not that it matters to these fucks

[displacedvermoter]

7. I don't believe it happened,

though he may get some one to come forward and offer to do it now. You notice he didn't offer to do it himself.

Lies and bullshit....

[Attilatheblond]

8. Perhaps Putin is looking to buy the US military 'on the cheap'?

[Safe as Milk]

21. According to reports at Daily Kos,

Russians will soon not have a pot to piss in. UKR is decimating Russian infrastructure at an alarming rate. Fuel is being rationed, imports of food have stopped, farm products cannot be harvested. It's a big mess that hasn't crescendoed. Meanwhile, Russian reservists are being called up for active duty with no equipment or munitions to give them.

[ProfessorGAC]

37. Probably Already The Case

Russia has a GDP per capita of around $15k.
By contrast, the US is around $75k.
They were already an economic pipsqueak. Now, they're hemorrhaging cash toward military replenishment.
They just don't care how much their bottom 90% need to sacrifice or struggle.

[rzemanfl]

9. Just what we need, a private army of mercenaries.

What could possibly go wrong?

[bluestarone]

10. First thing came to my mind was

Saudi Arabia?

[Tetrachloride]

18. not likely

except for oil, Saudi interests are different, imho

[Tetrachloride]

11. Putin said no. Musk might have said yes, which is moot.

[Katinfl]

12. He's so full of it!

[travelingthrulife]

13. And what does this buy them?

No. No. and No.

Open the government and pay them.

[obamanut2012]

14. 100% illegal

[pwb]

15. This same person probably pays no Taxes?

.

[sop]

16. A quick search reveals that would come to roughly $16B per month.

[Prairie Gates]

17. Bullshit

An outright lie.

US military payroll would hit hundreds of millions of dollars in a few weeks time.

This is just Trump testing how goofy a lie he can tell without any press calling him on it.

[ProfessorGAC]

38. More Than That

Total compensation of the US military was $192 billion in 2024. That's $16 billion per month, or about $3.7 billion each week

[Safe as Milk]

19. Oh. This is the FIRST time that Diddling Donny lied!

It's never happened before. We're all in shock. Donny made up a fib and broadcast it over the world. If he uttered one more sentence, it would have included the word, "Sir."

[Prairie_Seagull]

20. This can be yours for the low, low price of just

20%

[Farmer-Rick]

22. Just another lie

But I bet pedo Trump would sell off the US military to another country.

[Henry203]

23. He probably did it with a 20% interest rate.

[haele]

24. Putin. Or Eric Prince.

Could also be Prince Bonesaw.
No Billionaire cares about paying "the troops" unless there's a benefit to them, political or financial.
Most of them could care less about the employees and customers that made their billions possible, much less US citizens at large.

[Autumn]

25. Nice of that wealthy person to offer. Sounds like that person could pay more taxes, a lot

more in taxes.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. Why would anyone trust trump on anything?

[Scrivener7]

27. Just what we need. Our military on some billionaire's

payroll.

Where are all the tariff trillions? Why not use that, asshole?

[CincyDem]

28. For a weird reason, this might actually be true...that someone offered.

If Trump had said “…and he said ‘Sir, if there is any money necessary…’”.

That Sir shit is Trump speak for ”I’m about to dump a whopper on ya”.

[Picaro]

29. He's lying

As usual completely full of bullshit.

These service men and women are most likely not going to get paid.

The pay the lower ranked enlisted is paltry. Missing a paycheck will be catastrophic for them.

All these rich fucks don’t care.

Trump has never had a job. He’s always been wealthy. He has no context with which to conceptualize the damage he is doing.

Sure he doesn’t care.

[Solly Mack]

30. That didn't happen.

[blm]

31. MBS. Bonesaw

[walkingman]

32. How exciting....the admiration of wealth is a cancer in our society.

[Johonny]

33. Person that refuses to pay taxes

Wants to pay the whole bill for the US military? Yeah, sure that sounds legit.

[Deep State Witch]

34. Soros?

Maybe it was George Soros?

[Cha]

35. Dictator Traitor LIES. nt

[Tom Rinaldo]

36. I'll just say it. No one should be that wealthy in a Democracy n/t