The White House brazenly defended using $5.5 million in taxpayer money on adverts praising Donald Trump‘s presidency.
The TV commercials pushed patriotic imagery and videos of Trump’s accomplishments, as well as a promise that America ‘will never be a communist country.’
They featured a song by American singer JMSN repeating the phrase ‘Love me.’ The artist has disputed the use of his music in the commercials.
Funding for the spots, which began running on Fox News and in other media during commercial breaks in late September, came from taxpayer funding of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), The New York Times reported.
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