{"id":61697,"date":"2026-09-29T03:33:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-are-trumps-us-government-funded-ads-legal\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T03:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:33:41","slug":"watch-are-trumps-us-government-funded-ads-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-are-trumps-us-government-funded-ads-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Are Trump&#8217;s US government funded ads legal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">President Trump has faced criticism after fronting television ads paid for by the US government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are laws against federal funds being used in the US for political advertising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The White House has said they are public service announcements, rather than publicity or propaganda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Verify&#8217;s Jake Horton examined the ads and spoke to legal experts about their legality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced by Krystal Campos. Graphics by Sally Nicholls.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c6lymekx0repo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has faced criticism after fronting television ads paid for by the US government. There are laws against federal funds being used in the US for political advertising. The White House has said they are public service announcements, rather than publicity or propaganda. BBC Verify&#8217;s Jake Horton examined the ads and spoke to legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[5866,8116,369,1317,4335,1509],"class_list":["post-61697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-ads","tag-funded","tag-government","tag-legal","tag-trumps","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61699,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61697\/revisions\/61699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}