I don’t find it ironic, because a majority of both spending examples you put forward are done by CEO and other rich people.
What is ironic is that the pols who take all that money have to act as if the CEOs other spending is beyond the pale and “shameful”.
But the purchase of the political financing system, and our government leaders in the mix, has been made possible by the sham Buckely vs Vallejo decision. There the Supreme Court said that the rich deserve to speak more than the rest of us, because they’re better criminals than we are.
It’s a little strange that all the politicians have said “amen” and done almost nothing to legislate to reverse that clearly wrong decision. Money is no more speech than lead is gold.