{"id":324435,"date":"2026-03-06T05:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/324435\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:42:14","slug":"trump-white-house-uses-call-of-duty-in-new-video-promoting-iran-bombings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/324435\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump White House Uses Call of Duty In New Video Promoting Iran Bombings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four days after the United States joined Israel in airstrikes against Iran that have killed hundreds<\/a>, the official White House Twitter account posted a video<\/a> that features a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. This is the latest example of President Donald Trump and his administration using gamer memes and culture in official government-produced and promoted videos.<\/p>\n

On March 4, the official White House Twitter account posted a roughly one-minute-long video featuring numerous clips of real military strikes against different Iranian locations and targets. At the very start of the video is a clip from 2023\u2019s Modern Warfare III that shows a player activating an MGB killstreak. This is a hidden killstreak<\/a> for players who get 30 kills without dying. Once called, the bomb ends the match. The official video was posted with the caption: \u201cCourtesy of the Red, White & Blue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue. pic.twitter.com\/kTO0DZ56IJ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Kotaku has contacted the White House and Call of Duty publisher Activision, as well as its parent company, Xbox, about the official video, but didn\u2019t hear back before publication.<\/p>\n

The White House video featuring a CoD killstreak animation in this context is particularly heinous, as the ongoing strikes against Iran have killed hundreds of civilians, including many children who died on the first day of the strikes after a missile hit Shajareh Tayyebeh girls\u2019 elementary school in Iran on February 28<\/a>. Neither the United States nor Israel has taken responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll that I know is that we\u2019re investigating that,\u201d said Secretary of State Marco Rubio. \u201cOf course, we never target civilians, but we\u2019re taking a look at investigating that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Donald Trump\u2019s terrible history of using gamer memes <\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Trump and his administration have used video games in official government content. In September 2025, the Department of Homeland Security posted a video showing various armed ICE and Border Patrol thugs arresting and detaining people with music from Pok\u00e9mon in the background.<\/a> The very next month, DHS posted an image from Halo featuring the Master Chief driving a Warthog with the captions: \u201cFinishing the fight\u201d and \u201cDestroy the Flood,\u201d<\/a> likening immigrants to the parasitic aliens of the sci-fi franchise.<\/p>\n

That same month, the White House Twitter account posted an AI-generated image of Trump\u2014who is currently dealing with a big, gross red\u00a0<\/a>rash<\/a>\u2014wearing\u00a0the Master Chief\u2019s famous green armored suit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cDHS will reach people where they are with content they can relate to and understand, whether that be Halo,\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon,\u00a0Lord of the Rings, or any other medium,\u201d a DHS spokesperson told former Kotaku editor Alyssa Mercante in October 2025<\/a>. \u201cDHS remains laser focused on bringing awareness to the flood of crime that criminal illegal aliens have inflicted on our country. We aren\u2019t slowing down.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview\u00a0with\u00a0Game File<\/a>,\u00a0Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto called the post \u201cabsolutely abhorrent\u201d and added, \u201cIt really makes me sick seeing\u00a0Halo\u00a0co-opted like this.\u201d<\/p>\n