Trump says he will stop using taxpayer funds for ads after bipartisan pushback

President Donald Trump has said he will stop using US taxpayer funds to pay for television ads he has fronted, following bipartisan pushback."The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads, which I consider to be a positive promotion for our Great U.S.A., and paying for them with U.S.A. money," he said Monday on social media.Trump said it is "a rather standard thing to do" but that he has decided to pay for the "Patriotic Ads" himself and with money he raised through his MAGA Inc super political action committee.The ads, which praise the president and his policies, drew criticism and questions over their legality due to laws against using government money for political ads.There have been more than a dozen ads over recent weeks, with some mentioning Trump's tax cuts, US manufacturing and law and order. In them, Trump also vows to take action against the "deep state" and others he perceives as enemies.In one ad, Trump says, "We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will rout the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all".The ads come just ahead of the pivotal November midterm elections, when Democrats hope to take control of one or both chambers of the US Congress as polls continue to show Trump's approval rating falling. Midterm elections often serve as a verdict on how a president is doing - and typically the party of a sitting president tends to lose seats in Congress.