根据跟踪和分析电视、数字和互联电视频道政治广告支出的AdImpact的估计，联邦政府最近几天至少花费了170万美元播放三个不同的电视广告，以唐纳德·特朗普总统为主角。
批评家称这些广告可能违反了联邦宣传法。白宫为它们辩护说是“公共服务公告”，并将其与过去的例子相提并论创建PSA以强调医疗保险和患者保护与平价医疗法案交易所注册下的新药覆盖范围的政府。
最新的广告中，特朗普穿着单色服装，慢慢走过走廊，描述了与“深层国家”、“全球主义者”和“讨厌我们国家的病态政治阶级”的“最后一战”。
可以看到总统直视镜头，他的画外音发誓要“击溃假新闻媒体”，并“将美国从这些恶棍手中一劳永逸地解放出来。”
三年前，特朗普也分享了同样的视频当他卸任并被宣布为总统候选人时。音频取自特朗普竞选活动将于2023年6月在密歇根州停止．
对监测服务TVEyes的搜索表明，该广告周末在福克斯广播网上至少播放了两次——一次是在周六的大学足球赛期间，另一次是在周六星期日在“福克斯新闻频道星期天”．＂
周日在美国全国广播公司（NBC）的“与媒体见面”（Meet the Press）节目中播出的另一则广告显示，特朗普在总统山（Mt． Rushmore）庆祝美国建国250周年的活动中，庆祝“美国黄金时代的开始”。
上周播出的一则广告显示，特朗普吹嘘自己的记录，并发誓美国“永远不会成为一个共产主义国家”。据媒体购买和跟踪公司AdImpact称，该广告在一周内在几个媒体市场的保守有线新闻频道福克斯新闻频道和Newsmax上反复播放。
众议院司法委员会的最高民主党人杰米·拉斯金将帮助领导这项工作国会的监督努力，如果他的政党今年秋天夺回众议院，谴责上周播出后的第一个广告。
“这可能是出于政治竞选目的盗窃和转换政府财产的重罪，”拉斯金说书写。“任何从事这项工作的政府雇员都违反了哈奇法利用政府资源制作的。这是公然违反道德的联邦道德条款禁止利用政府资源进行政治活动。＂
Hatch法案限制参与联邦资助项目或在其中工作的联邦雇员以及一些州、华盛顿特区和地方政府工作人员的某些政治活动。
民主党参议员玛吉·哈桑（Maggie Hassan）要求白宫办公厅主任苏西·怀尔斯（Susie Wiles）提供第一则广告的信息，要求提供广告制作和联邦资金来源的细节用来通风。
一些共和党人也批评了这些广告。
内布拉斯加州第二选区的共和党候选人布林克尔·哈丁（Brinker Harding）由退休的共和党众议员唐·培根（Don Bacon）代表，并在2024年以5个百分点的优势赢得了卡玛拉·哈里斯，他发表声明谴责纳税人资助的广告。
“美国负债40万亿美元，内布拉斯加州人正在努力实现收支平衡。我们应该专注于明智地花费纳税人辛苦挣来的钱，而不是资助政治电视用他们的钱做广告，”哈丁在x。
共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪批评了第一个广告节目播出后，他说公共基金不应该用于这样的事业。
“我认为任何公职人员，包括特朗普总统、克里斯蒂·诺姆或约翰·肯尼迪，都不应该把公款花在私人事务上“他们自己的广告，”他说。现在，白宫对此有不同的看法，但我认为应该有一条规定，你不能——嗯，可能有一条规定——你不能花公款来推销自己。＂
白宫通讯联络主任张致恒为政府在周日的广告。
“不要让假新闻逃脱他们在电视上播放的关于我们史诗般的公共服务公告的谎言，”张说。
周日被问及广告白宫在一份声明中表示，这似乎是2024年竞选广告的副本，“公共服务公告是为了提醒美国人热爱他们的国家，并了解什么是值得捍卫的，无论是在国内，在我们的边境，还是在国外。”
它补充说，“的广告是有教育意义的爱国主义。我们应该为我们的国家感到骄傲。＂
一名白宫官员也为广告“显然不是政治性的”，并断言特朗普“不在选票上”广告没有行动号召，”尽管特朗普一再鼓励选民“假装”他在选票上。
张国荣在广告中提供了一份白宫资料，强调了伍德罗·威尔逊总统在一场运动中为支持第一次世界大战所做的努力用纳税人的钱来操纵舆论和影响新闻报道。
虽然它诞生了经典的美国形象山姆大叔说：“我要你美国（United States的缩写）军队，“克里尔委员会的大部分工作仍然臭名昭著——它已经历史学家说的激发了希特勒政府在纳粹德国的宣传活动。
White House airs more taxpayer-funded ads promoting Trump
The federal government has spent at least $1．7 million to air three different TV ads featuring President Donald Trump in recent days， according to an estimate from AdImpact， which tracks and analyzes political ad spending across television， digital and connected TV channels．
Critics say the ads could violate federal propaganda law． The White House has defended them as “public service announcements” and drawn comparisons to past examples ofadministrations that created PSA＇s to highlight new drug coverage under Medicare and signups for the Affordable Care Act exchanges．
The latest ad features Trump in monochrome， slowly walking down a hallway， describing “the final battle” against ＂the deep state，” “the globalists，” and “the sick political class that hates our country．”
The president is seen glaring directly at the camera as his voiceover vows to “rout the fake news media” and “liberate America from these villains once and for all．＂
The same video was shared by Trump three years agowhen he was out of office and a declared candidate for president． The audio is taken from aTrump campaign stop in Michigan in June 2023．
A search of the monitoring service TVEyes indicates the ad ran at least twice over the weekend on the Fox Broadcasting Network -- once during college football on Saturday and againSundayon ＂Fox News Sunday．＂
Another ad that aired Sunday on NBC＇s ＂Meet the Press＂ shows images of Trump at an event at Mt． Rushmore celebrating the country＇s 250th birthday in which he celebrates ＂only the beginning of the golden age of America．＂
An ad aired last week showed Trump boasting about his record and vowing the United States ＂will never be a communist country．＂ That ad ran repeatedly during the week on conservative cable news channels Fox News and Newsmax across several media markets， according to AdImpact， a media buying and tracking firm．
Rep． Jamie Raskin， the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee who would help leadcongressional oversight efforts if his party retakes the House this fall， condemned thefirst ad after it aired last week．
＂This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes，＂ Raskinwrote． ＂It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it orused government resources to make it． It is blatantly unethical under numerousfederal ethics provisions proscribing theuse of government resources for political campaigns．＂
The Hatch Act restricts certain political activities by federal employees and by some state， Washington， D．C．， and local government workers who are involved or work in federally funded programs．
Democratic Sen． Maggie Hassan requested information on the first ad from White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles， asking for details about how the ad was produced and the source of the federal fundsused to air it．
Some Republicans have criticized the ads as well．
Brinker Harding， the Republican candidate in Nebraska＇s 2nd District， represented by retiring GOP Rep． Don Bacon， and won by Kamala Harris by five points in 2024， issued a statement condemning the taxpayer-fundedads．
＂America is $40 trillion dollars in debt， and Nebraskans are struggling to make ends meet．We should be laser focused on spending the taxpayers’ hard earned dollars wisely， not funding political TVadvertisements with their money，＂ Harding posted on X．
Republican Sen． John Kennedy criticized the firstadafter it aired， saying that public funds shouldn’t be used for such a cause．
＂I don＇t think any public official， including President Trump or Kristi Noem or John Kennedy， should spend public money on privateads for themselves，＂ he said． ＂Now， the White House sees it differently， but I think there ought to be a rule that you can＇t -- well， there probably is a rule -- you can＇t spend public money to promote yourself．＂
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung defended theadministration’s ads on Sunday．
“Don’t let the Fake News get away with their lies about our epic Public Service Announcements that have been running on tv，” Cheung wrote．
Asked on Sunday about theadthat appears to be a copy of the 2024 campaign ad， the White House said in a statement that the “public service announcements are about reminding Americans to love their country and understand what makes it worth defending， at home， at our borders， and abroad．”
Itadded， “Theadis educational and unapologetically patriotic． We should be proud of our country．”
A White House official also defended theads as “clearly not political” and asserted that Trump “is not on the ballot and theads don’t have a call to action，” though Trump has repeatedly encouraged voters to “pretend” that he is on the ballot．
Cheung supplied a White House fact sheet on the ads highlighting President Woodrow Wilson’s efforts to bolster support for World War I in a campaign thatused taxpayer funds to manipulate public opinion and shape news coverage．
While it birthed the classic American image of Uncle Sam saying “I Want You forU．S．Army，” much of the work of the Creel Committee remains infamous -- it has beensaid by historiansto have inspired the propaganda efforts of Hitler’s government in Nazi Germany．
