根据追踪和分析电视、数字及联网电视渠道政治广告支出的AdImpact公司的估算,联邦政府最近花费了至少170万美元,播放了三则以唐纳德·特朗普总统为主角的电视广告。
The federal government has spent at least $1.7 million to air three different TV ads featuring President Donald Trump in recent days, according to an estimate from AdImpact, which tracks and analyzes political ad spending across television, digital and connected TV channels.
批评人士称,这些广告可能违反了联邦宣传法。白宫则为这些广告辩护,称其为“公共服务公告”,并将其与过去各届政府为宣传医疗保险下的新药品覆盖范围及平价医疗法案注册而制作的公共服务公告进行了比较。
Critics say the ads could violate federal propaganda law. The White House has defended them as “public service announcements” and drawn comparisons to past examples of administrations that created PSA's to highlight new drug coverage under Medicare and signups for the Affordable Care Act exchanges.
最新的一则广告以单色调呈现,特朗普在走廊中缓慢行走,描述了针对“深层政府”、“全球主义者”以及“痛恨我们国家的病态政治阶层”的“最后之战”。
The latest ad features Trump in monochrome, slowly walking down a hallway, describing “the final battle” against "the deep state,” “the globalists,” and “the sick political class that hates our country.”
视频中,总统直视镜头,画外音誓言要“击溃假新闻媒体”,并“将美国从这些恶棍手中彻底解放出来”。同一段视频三年前曾由特朗普分享过……
The president is seen glaring directly at the camera as his voiceover vows to “rout the fake news media” and “liberate America from these villains once and for all." The same video was shared by Trump three years...