President Donald Trump said Monday evening that he and his political action committee will pay for controversial television ads that praised him and had been funded by the U.S. government.

Trump's announcement came after continued backlash to the ads, which had run in the weeks leading up to November's midterm elections. Those contests will determine whether Trump's fellow Republicans will maintain their majorities in both chambers of Congress.

"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," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

"This is a rather standard thing to do but, rather than doing that, although nothing will make them happy, I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc.," Trump said.

Critics say the ads mirror Republican campaign talking points.

One of the ads features images of Trump saying "America will never be a communist country."

Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., in a Sept. 24 letter to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, wrote, "The advertisement does not have a clear official government purpose and appears to run afoul of federal prohibitions against the use of appropriated funds as part of 'a general propaganda effort designed to aid a political party or candidates.'"

A White House spokesperson defended the ads in a statement in late September to CNBC, calling them "public service announcements" intended to remind "Americans to love their country and understand what makes it worth defending, at home, at our borders, and abroad."

"The ad is educational and unapologetically patriotic. We should be proud of our country," the spokesperson said.

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