I didn’t see this posted before so I was interested in reading it. IMHO if a gift is given & you are asked to honor a request ....then you ought to honor it. If you don’t want or plan to honor that request then don’t take the gift.
I had not seen it either but rest assured the all knowing posting police will let us know if had been up before.
sorry I got snippy. To use a gift how you want to is ok ‘personally’ but this is national politics and ‘personal ettiquette’ is not ALL that is involved.