Trump uses taxpayer money for propaganda ads

President Trump has raised hundreds of millions in PAC money, but he’s using taxpayer dollars to run political ads, apparently to help Republicans who are being dragged down by his historically horrible approval ratings.

You can almost hear the frustrated president demanding that his aides do something — anything — to convince Americans that he is on their side, despite all the evidence that he cares more about his own engorged bank account and metastasizing monuments than he does about struggling families.

The ads being run by the White House are “sheer propaganda,” in the words of a former Bush administration official. One ad is basically a rerun of a 2024 campaign ad, but this time it is being paid for by U.S. taxpayers. That is us footing the bill for his campaign ads.

The administration is reportedly using $20 million that is designated by Congress for “border security upgrades, efforts to combat drug trafficking and memorials for officers killed in the line of duty,” according to the Washington Post, to pay for the ads. It is a naked violation of the law, but that is routine for this administration.

Another defining characteristic of the MAGA era is that Trump forces people around him to tell humiliatingly obvious lies in order to stay in his good graces. In this case, that includes a White House official who insists that the new ads aren’t political ads — the spokesperson says the ads are “reminding Americans to love their........

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