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NEO-NAZI fascist third reich propagandist joseph goebbels would be so proud of the drumpf/trump-vance administration for violating the First Amendment of the US Constitution while ignoring the law to create and broadcast this dystopian propaganda at American taxpayer expense. Video from Brian Cohen, article from the Independent.....
Trump commercial ‘paid for by the US government’ running on Fox News raises eyebrows
The intense 30-second ad aired on Fox News and comes amid the administration’s media ban
Rhian Lubin in New York
Thursday 24 September 2026 20:04 BST
Critics have blasted a commercial promoting President Donald Trump that was “paid for by the U.S. government.”
The intense 30-second ad, titled “America Will Never Be a Communist Country,” raised eyebrows over its content and use of the song Love Me by the artist JMSN. It comes amid the administration’s media ban and criticism of launching its own “state-run media” operation in response.
CBS Miami journalist Jim DeFede posted the commercial on X after he saw it air on Fox News Wednesday night.
“So I was just watching Fox News and this commercial played during Jesse Watters show,” he posted. “It says “Paid for by the US Government.” This is clearly a campaign ad.”
A White House official defended the ad to The Independent, saying the president is not on the ballot and the ads don’t have a call to action.
The commercial begins with a series of grainy black-and-white images of the president, before cutting to brighter visuals of Trump at political rallies and White House events.
The ad vows to “defeat communism, socialism and Marxism,” touts Trump’s “largest tax cuts in history,” and pledges to “defend law and order and police.”
It ends with a message from UFC CEO Dana White, praising Trump as the “toughest, most resilient person that I’ve ever met.”
An image of Chinese President Xi Jinping briefly features in the ad as the leader is in the U.S. for a high-stakes summit with Trump.
Democrats and other critics said that the ad resembled propaganda.
“Took this one right out of the Florida Republican playbook,” said Nikki Fried, chair of the Florida Democrats. “This ad is pure communist propaganda. The pure collapse of Trump.”
“Hold the party that condones this responsible in November,” said Joyce Alene, a former U.S. attorney appointed by Barack Obama.
“Unmistakable signs you live under an authoritarian, fascist government,” said Fernand Amandi, a political science professor at the University of Miami.
“Just hours earlier, Trump rolled out the red carpet for a communist,” the Lincoln Project posted.
The White House posted a 15-second version of the ad on its official YouTube channel on September 13. “These public service announcements are about reminding Americans to love their country and understand what makes it worth defending, at home, at our borders, and abroad,” a White House spokesperson told The Independent. “The ad is educational and unapologetically patriotic. We should be proud of our country.”
It comes as the administration launched its own dedicated streaming channel, “Trump TV,” after it banned MS NOW, CNN and Politico from the White House.
Trump said on social media that the three outlets “shouldn't be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES,” and Justice Department lawyers had sought to justify the ban on national security grounds.
A federal judge has ordered the president to restore the news outlets’ access, saying that the ban was likely unconstitutional.
NEO-NAZI fascist third reich propagandist joseph goebbels would be so proud of the drumpf/trump-vance administration for violating the First Amendment of the US Constitution while ignoring the law to create and broadcast this dystopian propaganda at American taxpayer expense. Video from Brian Cohen, article from the Independent.....
Judge Timothy J. Kelly of the U.S. District Court in Washington granted a 14-day restraining order and told the White House to “immediately return, reinstate, and restore” the press credentials held by employees of the three outlets.
The news organizations were likely to succeed in their claim that the White House had violated their constitutional due process rights by revoking their press credentials without advance notice or an opportunity to respond, Judge Kelly wrote in the order issued in the early hours of Thursday.
He also rejected, for now, the administration’s argument that revoking the outlets’ press credentials was necessary to protect national security.
“This is a strong ruling vindicating freedom of the press, due process and the rule of law. We greatly appreciate the court’s swift action,” Theodore J. Boutrous, a lawyer representing the media companies, told CNN.
The ruling from Judge Kelly, a Trump appointee, is a temporary reprieve for the three outlets while the litigation proceeds. It pauses a chaotic series of events that began last Friday, when Mr. Trump declared in a Truth Social post that the outlets were banned from the White House because of their reporting.
On Saturday, journalists for each outlet were denied access to White House grounds, and on Monday, the outlets sued the administration, arguing that the ban violated their First Amendment rights.
Other media companies responded by scaling back their routine coverage of presidential events in solidarity with the three outlets.
It was not clear how quickly the press corps would resume its usual coverage.
In a Tuesday court filing, the White House described the ban as preliminary and said the news outlets had until Friday to challenge it. All three organizations had fallen short of White House conduct standards and were responsible for “reporting incidents” that “threatened national security and spread falsehoods,” lawyers for the White House wrote.
Judge Kelly’s rationale for ruling against the White House echoed his own reasoning in a similar case from November 2018, when Mr. Trump, in his first term, revoked the White House press credentials of the CNN journalist Jim Acosta. Mr. Acosta had not been given an opportunity to contest the decision, Judge Kelly said at the time.
Fights over journalistic access have become a staple of Mr. Trump’s presidency. In his first term, the White House revoked the credentials of another reporter in addition to Mr. Acosta. Both regained their credentials after going to court. At the start of his second term, Mr. Trump also excluded The Associated Press from the pool of journalists who cover the president in such spaces as the Oval Office and Air Force One. That case remains in litigation.
Mr. Trump’s defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has also imposed reporting and access restrictions on news organizations at the Pentagon. The Times successfully challenged some of those restrictions in court, and the Pentagon is appealing the rulings.
Qasim Nauman contributed reporting.
A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 24, 2026, Section A, Page 16 of the New York edition with the headline: Judge Holds Off on an Immediate Ruling on the White House’s Edict Barring Journalists.
