The ad aired during “Fox News Sunday,” “Saturday Night Live” and several college and NFL football games this weekend, including the Seattle Seahawks versus Washington Commanders contest and the Ohio State-Illinois matchup, according to data from the ad-analytics firm AdImpact.

The White House has defended the ads, saying in a statement it reissued Sunday that the spots are “public service announcements” that are “reminding Americans to love their country and understand what makes it worth defending, at home, at our borders, and abroad.” The White House said that there was no “call to action” in the ads.

But Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush, said the use of federal funds for the ads could be an “abuse of power” and “an impeachable offense.” He urged Congress to demand a reimbursement for the spending.

“This is very dangerous,” Mr. Painter, a law professor at the University of Minnesota, said in a phone interview on Sunday. “We do not allow government-sponsored propaganda in the United States.”

Three pro-Trump ads that say they are funded by the government have run in recent days, according to AdImpact. While it is not clear how much the government is spending to air the ads, the figure appears to be more than $1 million, according to an AdImpact modeled estimate based on media markets where the ads were spotted on the airwaves.

The initial ad, which debuted last week, showed the president vowing to defeat “socialism and communism and Marxism” as a montage plays. The ad, which is set to the song “Love Me,” was first posted on the White House YouTube channel two weeks ago. A second ad features quotes and clips from his July 4 speech at Mount Rushmore.

The latest ad appears to be backed by over $70,000, according to AdImpact’s modeled estimate. The audio resembles remarks Mr. Trump made at several different campaign events across the country in 2023 and 2024.

The current ad re-promotes Mr. Trump’s 2024 campaign promise to “expel the warmongers from our government,” at a moment when his administration continues a war against Iran, which has no clear resolution in sight.

The ads come in the run-up to the November midterm elections. Mr. Trump’s low approval ratings and a war that has driven up prices threaten to hurt Republicans’ chances of holding their congressional majorities.

Democrats and some Republicans have expressed concern about the ads. Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that no public official, including Mr. Trump, “should spend public money on private ads for themselves.”

“The White House sees it differently,” Mr. Kennedy said in an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”

In addition to federal appropriations laws, some ethics experts said the ads might go against the Hatch Act, passed in 1939, which bars government employees from making political statements in their official capacity. The president is exempt from the Hatch Act, but if government employees worked on the ads or their placement, they could have run afoul of the law, the experts said.

“A divisive campaign commercial paid for by the U.S. government defies the Hatch Act’s very purpose,” said Margaret Dylus-Yukins, senior legal counsel for ethics at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan watchdog group.

Mr. Trump’s campaign spent an estimated $60,000 to boost the original version of the latest ad online between Oct. 18, 2024, and Nov. 2, 2024, according to AdImpact.

The White House website has a page dedicated to defending the new ads. The page lists examples of what it calls “public service announcements” funded by past administrations, including pro-war messages under Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ads from the George W. Bush administration about a Medicare law and the dangers of drug use, and the Biden administration’s campaign to encourage COVID-19 vaccination, are also cited.

The defense is a weak one, Mr. Painter said. In 2004, the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress now called the Government Accountability Office, found the Bush administration violated a federal appropriations law against propaganda because its ads portrayed the Medicare law as a boon to the elderly.

“They really shouldn’t have done it the way they did,” Mr. Painter said, referring to the Bush administration ad, which aired before he joined the White House. “Even though it’s nowhere near as bad as this. Nowhere near.”

Four Democratic members of Congress, including the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, have demanded that the White House take down the ads and provide information on the cost of producing and running them.

“This is the sort of government propaganda one might expect in North Korea, not the United States of America, and it is an egregious and illegal misuse of Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars,” Senators Patty Murray and Jack Reed, and Representatives Rosa DeLauro and Steny Hoyer wrote in a letter to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, on Thursday.

Senator Maggie Hassan, Democrat of New Hampshire and the ranking member on the joint economic committee, also demanded information on who created the ads.

>>1539557
>Has complete control of the government
>"Vote for me so I can expel the warmongers from the government!"
The legality of the government itself paying for this, this ad is retarded.

>>1539563
except President Trump has run the warmongerers out of office. They wanted us to invade Russia. Iran is not the same thing, that is a defensive war against a hostile nation that was 2 weeks away from nuking us. There is no warmongering from the Trump administration, just self defense against nukes and narco terrorism. Narco terrorism kills hundreds of thousands of americans per year.

>>1539576
>Narco terrorism

Well he's not helping with that.

>Trump plans 'full and complete pardon' for former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking
>Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of conspiring to move 400 tons of cocaine into US
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-plans-full-complete-pardon-former-honduran-president-convicted-drug-trafficking


https://fox17.com/news/nation-world/former-honduran-president-juan-orlando-hernandez-released-from-united-states-prison-after-president-trump-pardon-drug-trafficking-cocaine

>>1539576
Trump literally pardoned the leader of one of the largest drug trafficking operations in the world. He does not give a shit about narco terrorism.

Money in politics is the bane of this country. Every problem could be traced back to it.

>>1539637
It's weird how Republicans codified into law with the Citizens United decision that money = free speech.

>>1539557
I sure do love paying for propaganda!

>>1539641
I'd say it's right on brand.

>>1539576
Except trump is the war monger.
Honestly this is yet another criminal act where trump's ill gotten money should be seized as well.

>>1539563
Good thing it's meant to appeal to retards.

>>1539646
Except trump is not a warmonger. He's made made peace in like 9 countries.

>>1539650
Actually it's nine peaces in one country. Rounding down.

>>1539557
>vote for me so i can fight the deep state government
>paid for by the US government
Surely theres no one seriously retarded enough to not see anything wrong with this? Not counting the use of tax dollars for a Trump Ad?

>>1539650
You mean started wars with multiple countries. Clearly a war monger

It is so fucking funny that retards actually believed he wasn't a warmonger. This country is doomed. The people are unbelievably stupid.

>>1539673
It's even funnier that he took charge of the government and started several wars, including one that he warned repeatedly in his campaign that Biden/Harris would start, and still has the audacity to run this ad saying he needs to get warmongers out of the government.

>>1539650
MAGA: Many A Great Adversary

>>1539674
Trump did not start any wars. he ended obongo's and briben's wars. He's getting rid of the warmongering obongo/briben staff left
kill yourself retarded liggeral

>>1539678
here's your attention faggot

>>1539678
What about Iran?

>>1539681
JoE bIdEn!

>>1539681
The Arabs are never going to be allowed to continue to exist as sovereigns. They can't be trusted to stay in line with American foreign policy. The moment that they declared war on the oil markets in the 70s, that gravestone was marked, and since then we've been slowly toppling or bribing every nation in the Middle East into either becoming Western aligned or no longer functional as a nation.

Iran is just the last player on that stage. After they've been deconstructed over the next 20 years, there will be no more resistance in the Middle East worth mentioning, and any remaining separatists can be quietly genocided using third parties and local terrorist bands. There was never a future where Iran was just allowed to continue to exist as a separate sovereign power. Or Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Syria, or Egypt. They all have to be under control or made into a non-threat, one way or another, and this idea that any group of people can simply be allowed to run their own nation however they feel is best is both incredibly selfish and short-sighted. We can't afford to exist on the same planet as people who think its okay to live in an uncivilized, uncooperative manner, and it behooves us to conquer them or kill them for the betterment of every future generation. Simple as.

>>1539709
>trump didn't start any new wars, except for the one he did start, and i think he should start as many new wars as he wants
and you wonder why nobody takes you seriously

>>1539713
About half the country still thinks like that anon and will never move from that position

>>1539713
If you want to get super technical Trump started and ended one war (Venezuela). The Houthis started their war against the US which has also ended (with the US not other parties) and the war with Iran is not really a new war but just a hot phase in an ongoing 40+ year war that has hot and cold phases.

>>1539718
that's not being technical anon, that's lying

>>1539716
If by "half" you mean 30% and shrinking then sure.

>>1539718
>the war with Iran is not really a new war but just a hot phase in an ongoing 40+ year war that has hot and cold phases.
Delusional take. We were literally in treaty with Iran before Trump came along. By every metric it is a separate war Trump started.

I was sick ofbeing screwed over by Republicans, and all ready to vote straight blue, but then the price of gas dipped by about 20 cents so I'm back on the GOP train for good this time.

>>1539718
except we had a treaty and UN inspectors starting with Obama, and it was such a good deal that even Trump left it alone in his first term. It wasn't a "bad" deal until Trump's second term when he took his marching orders directly from Israel.

>>1539675
No one has better adversaries than i do, let me tell you folks

>>1539748
This. Based Patriotchad. It's proof that President Trump has this situation in control. In the first place most Americans are willing to suffer a bit economically to ensure the Iranians don't get a nuke

>>1539752
They said President Trump didn't have this war under control. They said America was losing. They said prices would continue to go up and up and up. They were lying. This is just the beginning. Oil prices are first, than general inflation, than Iran will fall. It's fucking happening. And all before the midterms LMAO. it's a liggeral worst nightmare scenario. Blood red wave coming this November CONFIRMED.

I'm already seeing gas prices at 2 a gallon. Diesel at 2.50. whopping decreases. This is what winning looks like. Fuck yes. Based Trump

>>1539752
>>1539757
god your life is humiliating

>>1539752
>>1539757
cool headcanon

>>1539759
Not headcanon. Fact. Fuel prices are already down the board. This directly leads to reduced inflation. It is also factual that Iran is teetering on the brink of utter collapse.

>>1539758
The real humiliation is being some liggeral troon

>>1539762
two more weeks?

>>1539764
You are so butthurt. Red wave inbound. Seethe about it.

>>1539758
The panic that must exist in the subconscious mind of the Trump supporter must be absolutely petrifying. Imagine every single day you wake up and your only job is to invent an entirely new world view that contradicts with the one you had yesterday. Some diaper shitting billionaire posts a thing on the internet and you HAVE to build a defense for it no matter how deranged or retarded. I imagine anon has been emotionally torn down to his roots and now his Trump fellatio is like reflexive. He does it because he's too mentally exhausted to imagine any other world.

>>1539752
I would send uranium to Iran myself it meant gas was below $3 again tomorrow

>the "Deep State" is a problem
>the billionaire tech cabal that immediately started shacking up with political power to forward their agenda without regulation? Totally fine

>>1539762
>Fact. Fuel prices are already down the board. This directly leads to reduced inflation.
By about what, ten cents that it'll immediately get back the moment another ship tries to go through the strait and gets bombed?

Fucks sake, Diesel is still $6.45. The highest ever price was last week and was $6.52.

>>1539772
>By about what, ten cents that it'll immediately get back the moment another ship tries to go through the strait and gets bombed?
You gotta remember the MAGA brain worms magic trick. Trump increases the cost of a thing by $5, then somehow the price of that thing falls by 50 cents then MAGAtards scream "SEE!! PRICES ARE FALLING THANKS TO TRUMP!" He creates a problem then demands credit for fixing it.

You'll never untangle this guy's brain. He's permanently stuck in this delusion of justifying every rank cloud of poison that leaks out of Trump's holes.

>>1539557
>>1539576
>>1539650
It's funny because he doesn't realize that he's not up for re-election in 2026 but he keeps repeating the same talking point like these ads make any difference.

These are literally just to stroke his ego. They serve no practical purpose and most of the candidates he's endorsed are trying to move away from him because he keeps doing retarded egotistical moves like this one.

>>1539765
>troon
https://i.postimg.cc/26Cx9yBZ/trump-approves-of-transitioning.jpg
>>1539766
Let's see the troon migger - now a proven liggeral, due to supporting Trump the proven liggeral but that orange liggeral is doubly one, as it supports Saudi Arabia, now supported by UK's PM Burnham, who is pro-LGBTQ+, thus Trump is a liggeral - invent an entirely new worldview that contradicts its own for so long via a forced meme in - and only in - /news/,
The migger has become the very thing it set out to try and 'own': a liggeral.
Hey 1539762 1539765, you're a troon liggeral. You don't have the right to deny it, as proven with the above evidence which proves Trump is a liggeral.
Blue wave inbound in early November. Cope, seethe and die soon about it, migger liggeral 1539762 1539762. It's not headcanon, but proven fact.
But then >>1539766, it probably accounts for the migger 1539762 1539762 admitting to being a stinky pedo here: >>1539420

>>1539778
He's probably just doing it to troll at this point. At one time being a massive blue-state refugees-welcome libtard was the #1 play to trolling normal people on 4chan. Now that stereotype, as cringe as it is, isn't as cringe as miggers have become; he's just swapped his posting.

>>1539775
Trump's brain isn't an issue. It's the brains of his tens of millions of followers that should concern you. They are locked in to a fallacy and have no intention of ever changing their minds, no matter what.

>>1539768
that's silly. Gas was well below $3 and we weren't sending uranium there. In fact, UN inspectors were on the ground there ensuring that they weren't enriching uranium, as per the deal worked out by Obama.

>>1539782
So what’s the plan? Just walk everywhere cuz Dear Leader is retarded?

>>1539782
>as per the deal worked out by Obama.
Its wild that Trump tore up Obama's plan and gave Iran nuclear capability 4 years earlier.
Its probably the biggest contribution that Trump has made to any business plan in his entire life.

>>1539785
Actually that's fake news. Obongo dropped pallets of cash on Iran which they used to kickstart their drone programs, ballistic missile research, funding of proxies, and nukes. It was confirmed by the inspectors that they couldn't guarantee that Iran wasn't pursuing nukes because they weren't being allowed in every facility.

>>1539769
Turns out they're the deep state and trump is their puppet

>>1539784
i guess be retarded and proud, follow esl shill's lead

>>1539785
Actually that's proven fact.1539787 doesn't have proof to the contrary and is reduced to whataboutism, thus 1539787 is fake news.

>>1539785
>Trump tore up Obama's plan and bombed the fuck out of Iran so that they will never get nukes
FTFY.

>>1539794
Why are they still making nukes then?

>>1539798
They aren't.

>>1539798
Because the JCPOA was revoked due to their shit behavior. So, they were enriching Uranium to bring the US to the bargaining table.

>>1539801
But they are.

>>1539805
>Because I say so
Either cite some evidence of your claims or take the L like a fucking man.

>a Muslim is a Muslim is a Muslim
>Qatar funds Hamas
>Trump trains Qatar's pilots in US
You voted for this, miggers.

>>1539806
First name a single source saying Iran isn't still making nukes (you can't because they still are).

>>1539808
I know we're not supposed to mention him because you're insane an retarded.
However, you do know that Joe Briben, who gangrapes children, designated Qatar a MAJOR US ally, probably because they gave him kids to gangrape and murder.

one day esl shill will finally be detained and put back on his meds

>>1539809
>Admiral Cooper told the Senate that Epic Fury had achieved its military objectives and that roughly 90% of Iran's broader defense-industrial base had been destroyed, leaving Iran unable to reconstitute major weapons capabilities for years.

>>1539820
Love watching liggerals get BTFO by facts and logic. How the fuck are they gonna respond to this one?

1539813
>you're insane an retarded
>an
I know I'm supposed to mention you're not American thus the esl shill because you're insane, retarded and illiterate, so I will.
>we're
Hi again, esl shill that always uses a badly spelled thus fictional name, therefore Joe Biden is completely innocent of any slanderous allegations not backed up with court-admissible evidence
>b-b-but a previous president I don't like is what I accuse him of being, because I say so!
Proof?
>>1539820
Love watching the desperate migger get BTFO by evidence to the contrary. Reality has that effect on rightist fake news. How the fuck are miggers going to respond to that, except with their usual lies and illogical BS.

>>1539820
>roughly 90%
That isn't totally destroyed.
>>1539833
What?

>>1539816
>his
ESL shill keeps trying to pretend they're a man

>>1539820
So why is gas so expensive if it’s going so well?

>>1539820
>The admin that lies all the time is surely telling the truth this time

>>1539845
Market Manipulation Monday

>>1539813
>qatar
trump loves qatar:
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-emergency-slide-is-being-checked-qatar-gifted-air-force-one-2026-09-09/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/assuring-the-security-of-the-state-of-qatar/

>>1539845
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/business/trump-ukraine-diesel.html
Ukraine

>>1539866
da comrade

>>1539866
>Guys it's totally the war that's been going for 3 years and not the one that started right before prices started going up

>>1539892
Ukraine attacking the oil and gas industry in one of the worlds biggest diesel exporters is very definitely affecting prices.

>>1539893
Yeah, but the loss of 20% of the world's fucking oil supply because the trade route it goes through has been effectively closed since February is ABSOLUTELY affecting prices.

>>1539894
Russia is like 10%. Both things can be true at once.

>>1539895
still haven't gone off to man that trench?

>>1539896
You're an idiot

>>1539894
Can't forget the hypothetical export ban would take out another 20%of the global supply

>>1539894
This could all end if trump and putin stopped their wars of aggression.

>>1539910
>supporting Iran

As-salamu alaykum

>>1539911
>Supporting russia
Vatnik spotted

>>1539912
Agent Krasnov will be disappointed

>>1539913
He'll be sent in the next meat wave soon enough

>>1539914
Agent K is preparing to bug out to a non-extradition tax haven and run his puppet regime in exile.