With public support collapsing for his administration’s war in Iran, Donald Trump’s White House has resorted to counting social media impressions as a sign of victory after gleefully posting images of destruction, threaded with clips from Marvel movies and Call of Duty.
Real-world footage of multi-million dollar airstrikes that have killed hundreds of Iranians has been spliced together with clips from video games and pop culture references in montages that appeal to accounts on Elon Musk’s X, all while trolling their antiwar critics.