{"id":344614,"date":"2026-03-13T22:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/hollywood-keeps-telling-the-white-house-to-stop-using-their-work-in-war-videos-the-white-houses-latest-video-proves-it-wont-stop"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:29:13","slug":"hollywood-keeps-telling-the-white-house-to-stop-using-their-work-in-war-videos-the-white-houses-latest-video-proves-it-wont-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/hollywood-keeps-telling-the-white-house-to-stop-using-their-work-in-war-videos-the-white-houses-latest-video-proves-it-wont-stop","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Retains Telling the White Home to Cease Utilizing Their Work in Warfare Movies. The White Home\u2019s Newest Video Proves It Received\u2019t Cease"},"content":{"rendered":"


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There is a person \u2014 or maybe a team of people \u2014 inside the White House whose job it is to take footage of real airstrikes that have killed real human beings and edit them together with Nintendo Wii Sports clips.<\/p>\n

That sentence shouldn\u2019t make sense. But here we are.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the official White House account on X posted a 52-second video set to the Wii Sports theme song. The title screen swapped out \u201cWii Sports\u201d for \u201cOperation Epic Fury<\/strong><\/a>\u201d in the same playful font. What followed was a montage of animated golf swings cutting to drone strikes labeled \u201chole in one,\u201d cartoon baseball hits spliced with explosions captioned \u201cout of the park,\u201d and archery bullseyes landing on missile footage. The caption: \u201cUNDEFEATED.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video has racked up tens of millions of views. More than 1,300 Iranian civilians have been killed in the conflict so far. Thirteen American service members are dead. Among the Iranian dead are at least 168 people, most of them children, killed when a girls\u2019 elementary school in the city of Minab was struck on the first day of the war \u2014 a strike that a preliminary U.S. military investigation found was likely caused by a targeting error.<\/p>\n

None of that made the highlight reel.<\/p>\n

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UNDEFEATED. pic.twitter.com\/Jt69bcag5y<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The pattern that won\u2019t stop<\/h2>\n

The Wii Sports video isn\u2019t a one-off lapse in judgment. It\u2019s the latest in what has become a full White House content strategy \u2014 one that treats an active military conflict like a meme page.<\/p>\n

Days after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran, the White House posted a video using Call of Duty gameplay alongside real drone strike footage. Kill score animations appeared over actual military attacks. One shot showed a U.S. drone hitting a truck, labeled \u201c+100.\u201d That video was eventually deleted.<\/p>\n

Then came a supercut pulling clips from Tropic Thunder, Braveheart, Gladiator, Top Gun, Iron Man, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, Halo, and Yu-Gi-Oh, spliced with real missile strikes. It ended with a Mortal Kombat voiceover: \u201cFlawless victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then came a bowling video with AI-generated bowling pins holding signs reading \u201cWe won\u2019t stop making nuclear weapons,\u201d knocked down by a red, white, and blue ball as Lynyrd Skynyrd played over exploding buildings.<\/p>\n

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STRIKE. \"\ud83d\udca5\"\"\ud83e\udd85\" pic.twitter.com\/XMzNNtlT63<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Then SpongeBob SquarePants.<\/p>\n

Then the NFL.<\/p>\n

Then the Wii.<\/p>\n

Hollywood said stop. The White House said make me.<\/h2>\n

The people whose work keeps getting used started pushing back. And the White House started mocking them for it.<\/p>\n

Ben Stiller posted a direct message after the Tropic Thunder clip surfaced: \u201cWe never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.\u201d The White House Deputy Communications Director responded: \u201cStill better than Zoolander 2.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kesha found her song \u201cBlow\u201d in a strike video and said the White House was using her music \u201cto incite violence.\u201d Communications Director Steven Cheung responded that celebrities complaining \u201cjust gives us more attention and more view counts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve Downes, the voice of Master Chief from Halo, called it \u201cdisgusing and juvenile war porn.\u201d Dan Green, who voices the lead in Yu-Gi-Oh!, said the White House was using a beloved creator\u2019s legacy to encourage violence. Former NFL players whose highlights were spliced with bombing footage said they were disgusted.<\/p>\n

None of it has stopped. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the effort \u201chighly successful,\u201d noting the videos had generated more than 2 billion impressions. \u201cPeople are talking about the tremendous success of the war,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s exactly the point.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"communications<\/p>\n

And the playbook isn\u2019t new. Before the Iran war, the White House used songs by Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, and SZA in ICE deportation videos \u2014 all without consent. Carpenter called it \u201cevil and disgusting.\u201d The White House deleted that video, then posted a manipulated Saturday Night Live clip of her, altering the audio to make it sound like she was calling a Latino cast member \u201cillegal\u201d instead of \u201chot.\u201d Rodrigo said to stop promoting \u201cracist, hateful propaganda.\u201d SZA called the whole tactic \u201cevil and boring.\u201d The Pok\u00e9mon Company objected. Celine Dion objected. ABBA objected. Every time, the White House either ignored the complaint, mocked the artist, or came back with another video.<\/p>\n

The quiet irony with Nintendo<\/h2>\n

There\u2019s one detail about the Wii Sports video that almost feels too perfect. Nintendo \u2014 the company behind one of the most beloved and wholesome games in history \u2014 is currently suing the Trump administration over tariffs that forced it to delay pre-orders for the Switch 2 console. The White House took that company\u2019s intellectual property and used it to celebrate airstrikes. Nintendo hasn\u2019t commented yet. But anyone who knows their reputation for protecting their IP knows this story probably isn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n

Where this actually lands<\/h2>\n

Leavitt is right about one thing: people are talking. But not about the military\u2019s success. They\u2019re talking about a government social media operation that has turned real human suffering into content \u2014 and that treats the outrage of the people it steals from as a feature, not a bug.<\/p>\n

Astronaut Scott Kelly may have put it most plainly when he responded to the Wii Sports video by asking which animated sports shot \u2014 the hole in one, the slam dunk, or the home run \u2014 was the one that killed those Iranian children.<\/p>\n

Nobody at the White House has answered that question. They were probably too busy editing the next video.<\/p>\n