White House releases video promoting 'justice the American way' featuring Hollywood characters

[highplainsdem]

Source: Guardian

A Hollywood-themed propaganda video released by the White House promising “justice the American way” for Iran features movie stars from Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and promotes characters including a corrupt lawyer, a drug dealer and a freedom fighter who stands up to the overwhelming force of an invading foreign army.

The 42-second video posted on the official X account of the White House on Thursday was met with almost universal mockery online, with comments accusing the Trump administration of immaturity, and likening its social media strategy to one run by teenagers.

The sequence opens with a scene from Iron Man 2, with Robert Downey Jr’s character Tony Stark the first of a number of featured superheroes. “Wake up, Daddy’s home,” he says as he claps his hands to activate a bank of computers.

Downey Jr has been a vocal critic of Trump, and actively campaigned for his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris during the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/06/white-house-propaganda-video-characters

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Much more at the link. No paywall.

Besides their news story reporting on the video, the Guardian's film critic called it " a piece of supremely nasty mischief from very humourless and naive people."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/06/supremely-nasty-mischief-guardian-film-critic-on-white-house-war-video

See reply 1 for the video.

[highplainsdem]

1. That video:

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[dweller]

2. What childish bullshit

the whole world is laughing at us




✌🏻

[Solly Mack]

3. How an empire crumbles.

[Ray Bruns]

4. Childish nauseating jingoistic crap.

It’s all a game or movie to them.

And someone is about to be sued big time.

[kimbutgar]

5. i don't think this video will be around long

these are copyrighted and the studios and actors will be suing to stop it ASAP!

[Bayard]

7. I'm thinking the same thing

I know some of the people shown are trump supporters, but I also know a few pictured are not--like Keanu Reeves (at least I think that was John Wick.)

Any celebrity can be pretty stingy about using their image. Studios don't like scenes from copyrighted movies being used either.

Immature and embarrassing.

[Capt. America]

6. This is the White House. Let that sink in.

I’m old enough to remember when grown ups ran the government.

[Aristus]

8. Nice to see RDJ opposing this.

I hadn't heard that he had supported Kamala Harris in 2024. And I had gotten the impression that after he got out of jail and gotten sober, he had done a hard turn to the right. Good to know I was wrong.

[MustLoveBeagles]

10. I thought Downey Jr was a conservative

I remember George Clooney saying he and Robert had differing political views. I guess if he was conservative he's course corrected in recent years.

[highplainsdem]

9. Ben Stiller tells the White House to remove the Tropic Thunder clip:

Link to tweet