{"id":1041091,"date":"2026-10-06T08:36:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041091"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:15:09","slug":"trump-says-taxpayers-will-no-longer-pay-for-tv-ads-that-praised-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/06\/trump-says-taxpayers-will-no-longer-pay-for-tv-ads-that-praised-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says taxpayers will no longer pay for TV ads that praised him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Monday said that he would pay for television advertisements himself or with money raised from the MAGA political committee after pushback over the use of taxpayer-funded television ads featuring him shortly before the November congressional elections. <\/p>\n<p>Ethics experts and lawmakers from both parties \u2060have criticized the three nationally broadcast ads, which celebrate a &#8220;golden age of America&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have questioned whether public funds are being used to promote Trump politically, while other critics say the spots may violate longstanding restrictions on government propaganda and political activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Monday said that he would pay for television advertisements himself or with money raised from the MAGA political committee after pushback over the use of taxpayer-funded television ads featuring him shortly before the November congressional elections. Ethics experts and lawmakers from both parties \u2060have criticized the three nationally broadcast ads, which celebrate a &#8220;golden age of America&#8221;. Lawmakers have questioned whether public funds are being used to promote Trump politically, while other critics say the spots may violate longstanding restrictions on government propaganda and political activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041121,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041091\/revisions\/1041121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}