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Trump gets a daily video montage briefing about the Iran war. The montage, which typically runs for about two minutes...
Trump gets a daily video montage briefing about the Iran war
— Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T09:42:27.339Z
The montage, which typically runs for about two minutes, has raised concerns among some of the president’s allies that he may not be receiving the complete picture of the war.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
WASHINGTON — Each day since the start of the war in Iran, U.S. military officials compile a video update for President Donald Trump that shows video of the biggest, most successful strikes on Iranian targets over the previous 48 hours, three current U.S. officials and a former U.S. official said.
The daily montage typically runs for about two minutes, sometimes longer, the officials said. One described each daily video as a series of clips of “stuff blowing up.”
The highlight reel of U.S. Central Command bombing Iranian equipment and military sites isn’t the only briefing Trump gets about the war. He’s also updated through conversations with top military and intelligence advisers, foreign leaders and news reports, the officials said.
But the video briefing is fueling concerns among some of Trump’s allies that he may not be receiving — or absorbing — the complete picture of the war, now in its fourth week, two of the current officials and the former official said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-gets-daily-video-montage-briefing-iran-war-rcna263912
The daily montage typically runs for about two minutes, sometimes longer, the officials said. One described each daily video as a series of clips of “stuff blowing up.”
The highlight reel of U.S. Central Command bombing Iranian equipment and military sites isn’t the only briefing Trump gets about the war. He’s also updated through conversations with top military and intelligence advisers, foreign leaders and news reports, the officials said.
But the video briefing is fueling concerns among some of Trump’s allies that he may not be receiving — or absorbing — the complete picture of the war, now in its fourth week, two of the current officials and the former official said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-gets-daily-video-montage-briefing-iran-war-rcna263912
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Service members and families who lost loved ones say the Trump team’s memes and jokes trivialize combat and sacrifice. Trump aides say the backlash sends views soaring.
In Trump’s war messaging, veterans see something new — and disturbing, new via @drewharwell.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
— Scott Clement (@sfcpoll.bsky.social) 2026-03-25T15:53:36.355Z
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/25/veterans-backlash-white-house-iran-memes/
But President Donald Trump’s top communications team, he said, had decided to treat the international conflict like a big joke. Veterans who were already questioning the war’s strategy and endgame, he added, were unnerved to find the nation’s highest office posting pop-music-scored clips of missile strikes, mixed with footage from Call of Duty and “SpongeBob SquarePants.”
“They’re completely diminishing what they’re asking the nation to do in Iran,” Buccino said in an interview. “It seems almost obscene relative to the actual violence and suffering that’s involved with this.”....
The videos have also fueled fierce backlash as they clash with real-world grief: On the same day earlier this month that an Air Force refueling plane crash killed six American service members, the White House posted a meme video interspersing explosions in Iran with celebrations from a sports game on the Nintendo Wii.....
The White House videos, posted to its official Instagram, TikTok and X accounts, have featured jokes from popular movie, TV and gaming franchises such as “Top Gun,” “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” and “Dragon Ball Z,” and many feature comedic visual effects and rap music soundtracks. On March 9, a day after The Post and other media organizations reported on a video showing a U.S. Tomahawk missile striking near an Iranian elementary school where dozens of children were killed, the White House posted a missile strike video backed by the rapper Nelly’s “Here Comes the Boom.”....
Criticism of the war memes has been wide-ranging. Steve Downes, whose grizzled voice, from the video game series Halo, was featured in a White House meme video, derided it as “disgusting and juvenile war porn.” And Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, said in a statement that the “sickening” meme campaign had “dishonored” dead soldiers and threatened a “profound moral failure” for society at large.
“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through while we’re waiting in line at the grocery store,” Cupich wrote.
“They’re completely diminishing what they’re asking the nation to do in Iran,” Buccino said in an interview. “It seems almost obscene relative to the actual violence and suffering that’s involved with this.”....
The videos have also fueled fierce backlash as they clash with real-world grief: On the same day earlier this month that an Air Force refueling plane crash killed six American service members, the White House posted a meme video interspersing explosions in Iran with celebrations from a sports game on the Nintendo Wii.....
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The White House videos, posted to its official Instagram, TikTok and X accounts, have featured jokes from popular movie, TV and gaming franchises such as “Top Gun,” “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” and “Dragon Ball Z,” and many feature comedic visual effects and rap music soundtracks. On March 9, a day after The Post and other media organizations reported on a video showing a U.S. Tomahawk missile striking near an Iranian elementary school where dozens of children were killed, the White House posted a missile strike video backed by the rapper Nelly’s “Here Comes the Boom.”....
Criticism of the war memes has been wide-ranging. Steve Downes, whose grizzled voice, from the video game series Halo, was featured in a White House meme video, derided it as “disgusting and juvenile war porn.” And Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, said in a statement that the “sickening” meme campaign had “dishonored” dead soldiers and threatened a “profound moral failure” for society at large.
“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through while we’re waiting in line at the grocery store,” Cupich wrote.