[ExI] Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2026 at 10:57 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> John notice the NYT goes on and on about these ads, then fails to offer a link to two of them.  They offer a link only to the third.  I see not one thing wrong with that one as a public service announcement.  It is encouraging the Irianians that the theocratic regime they have lived under for two generations is about to fall.  This is analogous to dropping leaflets over Nazi Germany in 1945.

Even if that was all the ads were doing - and
https://x.com/AdImpact_Pol/status/2103145033092432017?s=20 is far more
about Trump - it'd still be illegal.

That is a legal function of the Department of State, possibly the
Department of Defense.  It is well outside the Congressionally
authorized purpose of the budget of the Department of Homeland
Security.

This might seem like a bureaucratic fiddly bit, but the point remains:
that is not what Congress authorized those dollars for.  This is not
Congressionally authorized spending.