Actor and film-maker Ben Stiller has called on the White House to remove a clip in the video from Tropic Thunder, a satirical 2008 film about war movies that he directed and co-wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,\u201d Stiller wrote on X.<\/p>\n
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth also appears briefly, in a clip taken from a real briefing, where he says \u201cF-A\u201d before a clip from a Transformers movie says \u201ctime to find out\u201d, using a CGI autobot.<\/p>\n
The reference here is to a crude expression popular in the Trump administration, used to describe its uncompromising attitude towards any adversary: \u201cF-A-F-O\u201d or \u201cF*** around and find out\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a second post, the White House interspersed real war footage with a scene from video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in which the player\u2019s character is heard repeatedly saying \u201cAh s***, here we go again\u201d, before footage of strikes on Iranian targets.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s campaign was marked by a rage-baiting style of communications, flouting the decorum of past presidents to key into the internet\u2019s penchant for trolling and dunking, borrowing from video games and cinema for memes, and creating AI posts.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s social media has not shifted tone since he took office.<\/p>\n
Last month, he posted a racist clip depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as monkeys, and made no apology for it.<\/p>\n
Earlier in his presidency, when millions of \u201cNo Kings\u201d protesters took to the streets across the United States to decry his style of governance, he posted a fake AI video showing himself wearing a crown and flying a fighter jet labelled \u201cKing Trump\u201d that dumps excrement on crowds of protesters.<\/p>\n
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