Source : The Financial Times
20 bodyguards and 1 child human shield.
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025
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Ketamine is making him paranoid
Nah. There are legit people out to get him. At least, there should be.
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Lmao Apartheid Clyde's gonna be upside down on a lamp post one day <3
How many guards?
Never more than 20.
I wonder how many body guards you have to hire until you start to think “hmm maybe if this many people wish me harm I must actually be being a dick, let’s change that!”
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And that’s just to protect him from his kids.
Good to see that Elmo lives in fear of consequences. I hope the cunt can't have a crap in peace. His body guards are on the wrong side of history, and ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Okay, I need 21 people...
i mean, unless he's got something special it's five people on him at a time and logistics support, three shifts a day.
Okay, I need 21 people...
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it's almost like championing certain 'activists' and then being shocked when people don't like you is a predictable outcome. who'd have thought.
Any history buffs?
Is there any similarities to Praetorian Guard with the rise of private security for these rich?
Like wasn't Rome at some point actually controlled by Praetorian Guards in secret because they were so powerful that the emperors couldn't defy them.
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To be honest as someone who works alongside these people occasionally: That's a rather small security detail and I know of people with far far less money that have bigger security details.
20 people is not even a close protection detail, a chase car and an advance party plus medics, even less so if you consider that some people will be off duty, etc.
All the top-of-the-billionaires do. Zuck, Gates, Bezos, all have 24/7 security. You can see them lurking around in many of the photos.
https://shikshanews.com/10-most-guarded-people-in-the-world-2019-trump-is-not-on-no-1/
I hope they're all as skillful and qualified as his DOGE goons.
To be fair, one could argue that that is a cherished Afrikaner cultural tradition.
Coward's gonna cow
That's what happens when you turn into a POS. Ask the politicians.
”Homicidal maniacs”? Do they need to be maniacs?
Imagine if someone had travelled to the past to kill Hitler, failed, and then Hitler would include them in his speeches: "I already survived a homicidal maniac!".