Donald Trump has personally driven the controversial, taxpayer-funded video ads promoting himself and his administration’s policies, including helping select the imagery and videos used, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

Two Trump advisers familiar with the ads said that they were being created in-house by the White House video team — which is part of the communications team, responsible for the administration’s public messaging.

Coming just over a month before the November midterms, the ads have generated bipartisan criticism over how the Trump administration is spending taxpayer dollars.

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    I watch a show on CNN called Have I Got News For You, where comedians play games and discuss the week’s news. The people on that show are very openly anti-Trump. so, at least some of CNN’s programming is allowed to criticize and mock Trump. I expect the show to be canceled after Paramount takes over CNN.

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      12 days ago

      Check out the british version of HIGNFY! I’ve enjoyed the US one a lot, but the british one is even better.

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        23 hours ago

        @Hegar agreed. but they have been doing it over 30 yrs 💙

        oh, & CNN, like most companies, are appeasers. they’re not going to fight fascism - they’re going to profit from reporting on it from “both sides”

        @FreshParsnip

        i think you may be correct about HIGNFY US, bc the Ellisons are straight up pro-fascist