# Trump is creating his own gov't-funded personal army of loyalist mercenaries

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**Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-is-creating-his-own-govt-funded-personal-army-of-loyalist-mercenaries/1026208/81 "2026-01-06T21:20:31Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> Civil Service employees are not- nor ever have been- loyal to any administration, They are loyal to the Constitution, their paycheck and their retirement, not necessarily in that order.
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> Now, this increase in ICE is not needed, and i agree it is too much. But they are selected for being racist, and in fact racists would be terminated.

Conspiracy-minded paranoids would work as well. [I’ve personally encountered one such civil servant.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-maskholes-and-vaxholes/915339/1517)

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