(March 13, 2026 at 11:04 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I wonder which hat Trump will wear at the next dignified return.
Boru
What offends me even more is this:
Quote:From “Grand Theft Auto” to “SpongeBob SquarePants,” the White House has turned to memes from pop culture and video games to sell President Trump’s war with Iran.
The videos follow a broader trend in the Trump administration’s social media strategy, which increasingly uses artificial intelligence, pop culture and at times sarcasm to promote Trump’s policy priorities and slam his political opponents.
But those memes, which splice together popular kids’ shows or video games with actual footage of the U.S.-Israeli military campaign in Iran, are drawing backlash from lawmakers and experts, who say they go too far in blurring the line between unserious fiction and the realities of war.
“It takes a really complicated and important situation — armed conflict — and boils it down to a little cartoon image,” Peter Loge, a political scientist at the George Washington University. “By making war like a game or cartoon, that removes the reality of war from people’s minds.”
The videos, ranging from five to 50 seconds long, began days into the conflict with Iran and have continued as the war approaches the two-week mark. Seven U.S. service members have died from Iranian attacks since military operations began, and the Pentagon estimated about 140 other members have been injured as of Tuesday.
In one video posted Thursday, the White House spliced together clips from the animated “Wii Sports” game theme with videos of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. At one point, an animated baseball player is shown at bat ahead of actual footage of a strike in Iran as a Wii narrator says “out of the park.”
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/57...war-memes/
War is not a video game, you fuckhead. War is not a laughing matter.
