Trump wins again. Anonymous billionaire steps up to make sure military gets paid during shutdown

[Conservative from Georgia]

Trump can break all the laws he wants after what we witnessed between 2021 and 2025; election fraud in 2020 and then a wide open border the next 4 years with an executive branch that refused to uphold immigration law, and in fact, did everything they could to encourage the entire world to come in, and then allowed sanctuary cities and states. In other words, the executive branch decided that the law didn't matter.

Oh yeah: GFY

Very well, when will military members get this $100 gift card? Next week?

 

[Conservative from Georgia]

The law requires also that congress pass spending bills. You seem fine with OAC, Jeffries and Schumer preventing that from happening.

When our military is not paid due to a minority political party that has openly expressed a desire that people suffer so that minority can have "leverage," that is an emergency that the executive must respond to.

Clear it up in court later on, but do not starve the children of our service people in the meantime. As of now, no controlling legal authority or any case whatsoever has said that what Trump did was any violation of law whatsoever.

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Let your hate go, just long enough to applaud Trump for finding a way.

Hey Seymour. When will military members get this $100 gift card that Trump "found a way" to pay for? Next week? Don't tell me our soldiers will go another week without pay because Trump can't find a way.

 

[CrazyTrader55]

Hey Seymour. When will military members get this $100 gift card that Trump "found a way" to pay for? Next week? Don't tell me our soldiers will go another week without pay because Trump can't find a way.

Again: the military will get paid, and the democrats WILL compromise. Or the shutdown continues.

Your serve.

 

[Conservative from Georgia]

Again: the military will get paid, and the democrats WILL compromise. Or the shutdown continues.

Your serve.

When will they get paid? Next week?

 

[CrazyTrader55]

When will they get paid? Next week?

Don't know, don't care.

We are 37 trillion dollars in debt.

The democrats are going to compromise.

 

[Seymour Flops]

The problem with that son....is that it is a CONSTANT on the right hand side of the aisle.
Don't waste my with the whole "both sides" crap.

You openly supporting corruption and grift.
You got no leg to stand on.

Both sides work on this because it is both sides and has always been.

How would you describe the level of influence peddling among Democrats? "Non-existant?"

 

[Seymour Flops]

Hey Seymour. When will military members get this $100 gift card that Trump "found a way" to pay for? Next week? Don't tell me our soldiers will go another week without pay because Trump can't find a way.

If you said all that to make the point that 130 million isn't enough, of course it isn't. The government should be fully funded.

Tell your Party, or "not your party" to stop being afraid of AOC and vote for the clean CR and THEN negotiate Schumer and Jeffries' far left priorities.

 

[Conservative from Georgia]

Don't know, don't care.

We are 37 trillion dollars in debt.

The democrats are going to compromise.

I forced CrazyTrader55

If you said all that to make the point that 130 million isn't enough, of course it isn't. The government should be fully funded.

Tell your Party, or "not your party" to stop being afraid of AOC and vote for the clean CR and THEN negotiate Schumer and Jeffries' far left priorities.

are they even gonna get the gift card? Yes or no?
And just to confirm, do you want your not-party to agree to your favorite party's proposals. correct? so simple!
How about your party giving your not-party what they want, and then negotiate later?
Negotiating later is a good thing in your book. Right?

 

[CrazyTrader55]

I forced CrazyTrader55

are they even gonna get the gift card? Yes or no?
And just to confirm, do you want your not-party to agree to your favorite party's proposals. correct? so simple!
How about your party giving your not-party what they want, and then negotiate later?
Negotiating later is a good thing in your book. Right?

Not my party, pal. I'm a Libertarian.

 

[berg80]

Trump can break all the laws he wants after what we witnessed between 2021 and 2025; election fraud in 2020 and then a wide open border the next 4 years with an executive branch that refused to uphold immigration law, and in fact, did everything they could to encourage the entire world to come in, and then allowed sanctuary cities and states. In other words, the executive branch decided that the law didn't matter.

Oh yeah: GFY

Biden won the 2020 that was virtually free of voter fraud. The borders have never been wide open.

GFY.

 

[berg80]

Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Trump announced the donation on Thursday night, but he declined to name the person who provided the funds, only calling him a “patriot” and a friend. But the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the donation was private, identified him as Mr. Mellon.

Shortly after departing Washington on Friday, Mr. Trump again declined to identify Mr. Mellon while talking to reporters aboard Air Force One. He only said the individual was “a great American citizen” and a “substantial man.”

“He doesn’t want publicity,” Mr. Trump said as he headed to Malaysia. “He prefer that his name not be mentioned which is pretty unusual in the world I come from, and in the world of politics, you want your name mentioned.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251025&instance_id=165145&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=65145149&segment_id=209323&user_id=fecdfdffdaaa11107b72f0f4f6e429cc

 

[berg80]

If you said all that to make the point that 130 million isn't enough, of course it isn't. The government should be fully funded.

Tell your Party, or "not your party" to stop being afraid of AOC and vote for the clean CR and THEN negotiate Schumer and Jeffries' far left priorities.

Tell your Party, or "not your party" to stop being afraid of Dotard, tell M. Johnson to bring the House back in session, swear in Adelita Grijalv, and hold a vote on the discharge petition.

 

[Meathead]

Wow. $130 million you say? Golly! That will be enough to pay a couple thousand troops, maybe!

Do you suppose this "anonymous" billionaire expects something from our transactional grifter in the White House?

A personal carve-out for tariff relief, maybe?

.

It would be if they're making $5,500 a month + housing, food, health etc..

 

[Seymour Flops]

I forced CrazyTrader55

are they even gonna get the gift card? Yes or no?

I have no idea if they are going to get any "gift card." I'm sorry, I'm not aware of that. Is that something going around Democrat circles or something?

I tried to play along and look it up, but AI hasn't heard of that.

Anyway, you completely miss the point. Trump is trying to find a way to pay the troops. Democrats are trying to stop him so that their suffering will continue to give them "leverage."

Even the liberal media is pointing that out. Not paying the troops and calling it a failure if Trump's attempt to do so does not provide the full amount that Democrats are depriving them of is a terrible bragging point.

And just to confirm, do you want your not-party to agree to your favorite party's proposals. correct? so simple!
How about your party giving your not-party what they want, and then negotiate later?
Negotiating later is a good thing in your book. Right?

Give them what they want and then negotiate? Sounds like a poor start to negotiations.

Yes, as soon as the small group of Democrats stop blocking funding for the government, Republicans will be able to negotiate with them about the ACA COVID Supplement.*

Democrats could do very well in those negotiations. The media is on their side, MTG Republicans support it and other Republican voters arent' that worried about it. It isn't a lot of money relative to government, and I doubt Trump cares much either way.

But, of course Republicans are not going to give in to blackmail, because doing so only encourages more blackmail.

The Affordable Care Act has been a disaster since it was voted in without a single republican vote, and the subsidies voted since then - again without a single Republican vote - only confirmed that it did not at all live up to its name.

*Unfortunately, the ACA COVID Supplement isn't really the Democrats' main demand in my opinion. Neither is the money for PBS and NPR. It's the medicaid for people who crossed the border illegally that the Dems are falling on their swords for.

Republicans will never give in on that one, so outcome will surely be a a few more Democrats joining Fetterman et al, to re-open government against the wishes of AOC and her minions Jeffries and Schumer.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Tell your Party, or "not your party" to stop being afraid of Dotard, tell M. Johnson to bring the House back in session, swear in Adelita Grijalv, and hold a vote on the discharge petition.

Why?

What's your rush?

 

[Seymour Flops]

Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Trump announced the donation on Thursday night, but he declined to name the person who provided the funds, only calling him a “patriot” and a friend. But the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the donation was private, identified him as Mr. Mellon.

Shortly after departing Washington on Friday, Mr. Trump again declined to identify Mr. Mellon while talking to reporters aboard Air Force One. He only said the individual was “a great American citizen” and a “substantial man.”

“He doesn’t want publicity,” Mr. Trump said as he headed to Malaysia. “He prefer that his name not be mentioned which is pretty unusual in the world I come from, and in the world of politics, you want your name mentioned.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251025&instance_id=165145&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=65145149&segment_id=209323&user_id=fecdfdffdaaa11107b72f0f4f6e429cc

Any relation to Thornton Mellon?

 

[Conservative from Georgia]

I have no idea if they are going to get any "gift card." I'm sorry, I'm not aware of that. Is that something going around Democrat circles or something?

I tried to play along and look it up, but AI hasn't heard of that.

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Anyway, you completely miss the point. Trump is trying to find a way to pay the troops. Democrats are trying to stop him so that their suffering will continue to give them "leverage."

Even the liberal media is pointing that out. Not paying the troops and calling it a failure if Trump's attempt to do so does not provide the full amount that Democrats are depriving them of is a terrible bragging point.


Give them what they want and then negotiate? Sounds like a poor start to negotiations.

Yes, as soon as the small group of Democrats stop blocking funding for the government, Republicans will be able to negotiate with them about the ACA COVID Supplement.*

Democrats could do very well in those negotiations. The media is on their side, MTG Republicans support it and other Republican voters arent' that worried about it. It isn't a lot of money relative to government, and I doubt Trump cares much either way.

But, of course Republicans are not going to give in to blackmail, because doing so only encourages more blackmail.

The Affordable Care Act has been a disaster since it was voted in without a single republican vote, and the subsidies voted since then - again without a single Republican vote - only confirmed that it did not at all live up to its name.

*Unfortunately, the ACA COVID Supplement isn't really the Democrats' main demand in my opinion. Neither is the money for PBS and NPR. It's the medicaid for people who crossed the border illegally that the Dems are falling on their swords for.

Republicans will never give in on that one, so outcome will surely be a a few more Democrats joining Fetterman et al, to re-open government against the wishes of AOC and her minions Jeffries and Schumer.

Oh wait. You thought the 130 million is more like “salary” than a gift card?
130 million dollars is equivalent to $100 one time payment to each serviceman.

Did you ever get a salary like that)

 

[Seymour Flops]

Oh wait. You thought the 130 million is more like “salary” than a gift card?

Where does the "gift card" come in?

 

[CrazyTrader55]

Biden won the 2020 that was virtually free of voter fraud. The borders have never been wide open.

GFY.

Bullshit
Bullshit

Blocked

 

[Conservative from Georgia]

Where does the "gift card" come in?

It’s a mocking name due to the puny nature of the amount.