This is really stunning…

President Trump just revealed that an extremely wealthy private donor called him up and said if there are any shortfalls in being able to pay our Military, I will pay it (meaning the private donor said he will pay it).

Absolutely incredible offer — and I’ll explain why in just a bit.

First, watch this:

TRANSCRIPT:

On the shutdown, um, you, you have the money to pay the troops on October 15th. Okay. How is this—

I actually have a man who is a very wealthy person, you’ll know that when I tell you this, who called a donor, a great gentleman, and he said, “If there’s any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.”

Meaning, he will pay it. How about that?

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I said, “Look, we’re not gonna need it. We’re gonna take care of our troops.”

But, uh, this was a position that’s being forced upon us by Democrats, and all they have to do is just—

Backup here if needed:

Now, allow me to put it into context for you….

That’s obviously a stunning offer, but you might not realize quite how stunning.

I went to ChatGPT and Grok to ask how much each pay period is for all active duty Military of any kind.  How much are we talking here?

Grok estimated each pay period (assuming 24 paychecks per year) comes in at a staggering $7.8 billion:

Best Estimate per Pay PeriodU.S. military pay is issued semimonthly (twice per month, on the 1st and 15th, adjusted for weekends/holidays), resulting in 24 pay periods per year.

  • Total cost per pay period: $187.2 billion ÷ 24 = $7.8 billion.

Checking that math, ChatGPT comes in at a similar but slightly smaller $6.7 billion (and do NOT say 6-7):

Total per pay period (mid-month or end-of-month)

≈ $6.66 billion (about $6.6–$6.7B).

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To put all of THAT into context, President Trump was reported worth about $10 billion when he first ran for office back in 2016.

So even all the wealth of the Trump family could only fund ONE Military pay check before running dry.

So who could be wealthy enough to even make this offer?

I don’t know and President Trump has not yet revealed, but there’s really only one guy who I think could handle this and he goes by the name Elon Musk.

That’s just my guess, what do you think?

 

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