Just a few days after the surprise announcement of Halo: Campaign Evolved, the US government has co-opted imagery from the game to promote its efforts to deport millions of people from the country. The post continues a pattern by the Trump administration of co-opting copyrighted material without permission for use as propaganda.
It began last Saturday on X with a sort of faux diplomatic communique from GameStop declaring the end of the console wars, brought about by the announcement that the Halo remake is headed to the PlayStation 5. In response, the White House—yes, the actual, real White House, seat of power of the world's last remaining superpower—posted an AI-generated image of US president Donald Trump as Master Chief, presumably a play on Trump's inaccurate but persistent claim that he has now ended eight wars in just eight months.
