The Democratic opposition today accused Donald Trump of making illegal propaganda with a television announcement that exalts his image and was paid by the US Government a few weeks from the mid-term elections.
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28/09/2026
by
Lusa
O American President appears in a 30-second black and white video, which was broadcast on Sunday during football games.
Trump walks silently towards the chamber through a corridor, while excerpts of speeches are reproduced in which he attacks the “belicists”, the “communists” and the “globalists”.
The video begins with the phrase “This is the final battle” and ends with the indication “Pay for the American Government”.
Trump had already released the same video in 2023 on his platform, Truth Social, but at that time indicated that he had been funded by his campaign.
The transmission of the announcement a few weeks before the mid-term elections was criticised by several Democratic leaders who questioned the use of public funds.
“It is illegal for the government to use American taxpayers’ money to finance political propaganda. ... This is propaganda, and it is we who pay the bill”, said Democratic Congressman Mike Levin, in a video released on social network X.
Democratic Senator John Hickenlooper also challenged the initiative.
“ This is propaganda. It is illegal ", wrote the senator on the same platform.
The White House rejected the charges, arguing that the video is not political propaganda, whose funding is subject to specific rules, but a “public service announcement”.
The video is “educational and patriotic”, the US executive said in a statement.
A government authority added that Trump “is not a candidate” in this year’s legislative elections and that the video “did not encourage action”.
Trump, however, recently asked voters to act “as if he were a candidate in the midterm elections, in which the control of Congress is at stake.
Last week, another announcement was also published that extolled presidential management, also with the indication “Pay for the American Government”.
This video repeated Trump’s slogan “America will never be a Communist country”, accompanied by a song whose lyrics repeated “Love me” (love me).