Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peaceful and violent, in video game screenshots and movie clips and on professional playing fields, the icons come fast and furious in quick-cut footage -- some of the most renowned slivers of 21st-century American popular culture, harnessed by the Trump administration to promote the freshly launched war with Iran.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the screen, the animated character cocks his gun and orders a massive nuclear airstrike using a tablet.

An X post published on the White House's X account. (Video: The Washington Post) On Thursday, less than a week after an airstrike killed dozens of children in an Iranian elementary school, and one day after the Pentagon named two of the six American soldiers killed by a drone, the White House posted a video on X blending real-world bombing footage with clips from action movies and video games.