President Trump during a campaign rally in Wasilla, Alaska, on October 13, 2026. (Photo by Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images) The Trump administration posted more political ads on the official White House YouTube Monday, appearing to defy a court order that blocked the ads from being aired, pro-democracy groups told a federal court. Despite a New York judge granting Common Cause and a coalition of other pro-democracy groups’ motion Sunday for a temporary restraining order blocking the political ads, the Trump administration posted four new political ads on YouTube the next day. These ads, though not aired on television, have garnered a cumulative 189,000 views in the two days they have been live. In a notice filed Tuesday, Common Cause raised concerns about these new ads and asked the Trump administration if they were developed, created or published using the $20 million that the administration diverted from immigration enforcement without congressional approval. Common Cause also wrote that two of the ads challenged in their lawsuit, titled “America Will Never Be a Socialist/Communist Country” and “Mount Rushmore,” are still up on the White House YouTube channel. These two ads have a total of 70,000 views. The Trump administration continued
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