根据美国广播监管机构的负责人表示，这些由纳税人资金资助的广告（批评者认为这些广告实际上是唐纳德·特朗普总统的政治竞选宣传片）并不属于违规行为，因此无需接受审查。
A series of taxpayer-funded s that critics say are political campaign spots for United States President Donald Trump are not improper and do not need to be reviewed, according to the head of the country’s broadcast regulator.
“这些广告中没有任何内容需要联邦通信委员会（FCC）进行审查，”被特朗普任命为联邦通信委员会主席的布伦丹·卡尔周三表示。
“There’s nothing in there that strikes me to merit any sort of FCC review,” Brendan Carr, who Trump appointed as head of the Federal Communications Commission, said on Wednesday.
卡尔将这些广告比作公共服务公告，这与白宫在回应批评时所提出的观点一致——白宫认为特朗普是在利用公共资金来推广自己和自己的政策。不过，媒体自由组织指责卡尔协助特朗普“利用联邦通信委员会”来压制那些对他报道不利的新闻媒体和电视网络。
Carr likened the s to public service announcements, echoing an argument the White House has made in response to criticism that Trump was using public funding to promote himself and his policies. Media freedom groups have criticised Carr for helping Trump to“weaponise” the FCC to go after news and television networks whose coverage of him he has not been happy with.
美国宪法禁止特朗普连任总统，但他仍表示有意第三次竞选总统，并推出了印有“Trump 2028”字样的宣传产品。
The US Constitution bars Trump from running for a third term as president, but he has nevertheless floated a third stint in the White House and has promoted merchandise bearing the words “Trump 2028”.
白宫在上周的一份声明中为这些广告辩护称：“这些广告显然不属于竞选广告；特朗普总统并未参与任何选举活动，也没有任何呼吁民众采取行动的内容。相反，这些广告只是提醒美国人要热爱自己的国家，并了解为何需要捍卫这个国家——无论是在国内、边境还是海外。”
“The announcements are very clearly not campaign ads,” the White House said in a statement last week defending the campaign.
周二，民主党参议员们致信美国国土安全部（DHS），要求其停止为这些宣传特朗普政府政策的电视广告提供资金支持。参议员帕蒂·默里和克里斯·墨菲在信中写道：“这些广告必须立即停止播放；纳税人的钱应该被退还；所有对此负有责任的人都应该为这种腐败且非法的宣传活动承担后果。”据报道，国土安全部原本计划为这些广告投入2000万美元。
“President Trump is not on the ballot, and there is no call to action. Instead, the announcements are a reminder for Americans to love their country and know why it’s worth defending — at home, at the border, and abroad.”On Tuesday, Democratic senators wrote to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asking it to stop spending funds on a series of television s promoting the Trump administration’s recent actions. “These ads need to immediately come off the air, taxpayers need to be paid back for this theft, and everyone responsible needs to be held accountable for this corrupt and illegal propaganda,” Senators Patty Murray and Chris Murphy wrote in a letter to the agency’s head.
不过，对这些电视广告的批评不仅来自共和党议员，也来自民主党知名人士。他们指出，这些广告似乎违反了旨在禁止使用公共资金进行政治宣传的法律条款。
The lawmakers said DHS was planning to spend $20m on the s. But criticism of the television spots has come from prominent Democrats as well as Republican lawmakers, who have said the campaign appears to violate legal provisions meant to bar publicly funded political propaganda.
来自北卡罗来纳州的共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯（Tom Tillis）表示，这些广告的风格类似于前匈牙利领导人维克托·奥尔班（Viktor Orban）会发布的广告。
Senator Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, said the s resembled something former Hungarian leader Viktor Orban would put out.
南达科他州的共和党参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（John Thune）表示，他认同其中一些广告所传达的信息，但“这些广告不应该用纳税人的钱来制作”。
Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota said he agreed with the message in one of the s, but “it shouldn’t be paid for with taxpayer dollars”.
一些民主党人的批评更为直接，他们认为政府的行为可能面临刑事责任。众议院司法委员会的高级民主党议员杰米·拉斯金（Jamie Raskin）在社交媒体上写道：“这可能构成重罪——利用政府财产为政治竞选目的服务。”他还引用了一则最近播出的特朗普广告作为例证。
Some Democrats have been more direct, saying the administration could face criminal liability for its actions. “This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes,” Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, wrote on X, citing a Trump that aired recently. Raskin said any government employees who worked on it could have violated the Hatch Act, a 1939 law that specifically prohibits government employees from engaging in political activities.
拉斯金指出，任何参与制作这些广告的政府雇员都可能违反了《哈奇法案》（Hatch Act）——该法案明确规定政府雇员不得从事任何政治活动。
‘Love me’
这些广告曾在国家体育赛事及其他高收视率的节目中播出。其中一则广告是一段黑白的视频，画面中特朗普以慢动作在走廊里行走；音频片段来自他的上次总统竞选活动，特朗普在视频中声称美国人正处于“最后的决战”之中，他及其支持者将“摧毁深层政府（即那些暗中操纵国家政策的势力）、驱逐战争贩子以及全球主义者、共产主义者和法西斯分子”。
The s have aired on national television during national sports matches and other highly-watched programming. One is a monochrome video featuring Trump walking down a hall in slow motion.
另一则广告中，特朗普的影像与他的讲话声混合在一起，他声称：“让我们共同击败共产主义、社会主义和马克思主义。”随后，屏幕上用红色大写字母显示了一系列所谓的“成就”，例如“美国历史上规模最大的减税措施”以及“重振美国制造业”。
In an audio clip taken from his last presidential election campaign, Trump can be heard saying Americans are now engaged in a “final battle” and that he and his supporters will “demolish the deep state, expel the warmongers from our government, we will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the communists, Marxists and fascists”. In another , a montage of Trump is shown with audio of him saying, “Together, we will defeat communism, socialism, and Marxism,” before text in red capital letters notes a series of claimed accomplishments like “largest tax cuts in American history” and “reigniting American manufacturing”.
该视频配以艺术家JMSN的歌曲《Love Me》，该艺术家上周在X上发文称，特朗普未经许可使用了这首歌。代表该艺术家的律师周一致函白宫，称如果不从视频中移除该音乐，将采取进一步行动。信中指出，JMSN“不希望被视为直接或间接与总统或其政府有关联。”
The is set to a song titled Love Me by artist JMSN, who wrote last week on X that Trump had used it without permission. Lawyers representing the artist wrote to the White House on Monday, saying they would take further action if the music was not removed from the video. JMSN, the letter said “does not want to be viewed as directly or indirectly affiliated with the President or his Administration.”