The video posted to the official White House X account opens with footage from the 2023 video game “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” before transitioning into footage of real strikes conducted on Iran since Trump launched his war.

The White House celebrated the Trump administration’s lethal strikes on Iran with a bizarre video-game mashup posted to social media.

The video, posted to the official White House X account on Wednesday, opens with footage from the 2023 video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 before transitioning into footage of real strikes conducted on Iran since Trump launched his war against the Middle Eastern nation on Saturday.

“Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue,” read the caption associated with the post.

The video opens with the player activating a Mass Guided Bombs killstreak, a feature that is only activated for players who achieve 30 kills without dying themselves.

After showing three clips of a plane and two projectiles blasting off, the video then shows black-and-white footage of multiple strikes, complete with ‘+100’ kill scores, as an instrumental version of Childish Gambino’s 2011 hit ‘Bonfire’ plays.

The Daily Beast has contacted the White House, Activision, which publishes the Call of Duty games, and representatives for Childish Gambino—aka actor Donald Glover—for comment.

White House video featuring Call of Duty footage and footage of real Iran strikes
The video also featured footage of real-world strikes.

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The video comes after days of strikes on Iran conducted by the U.S. and Israel that began on Saturday when President Donald Trump announced that U.S. forces had begun “major combat operations” in the country.

The strikes have resulted in more than 1,000 deaths so far, including that of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and dozens of other top officials. Another strike, which Iran has blamed on American forces, hit a girls’ school, killing more than 150 students and staff.

The Trump administration is no stranger to using gaming culture to promote its more brutal policies. The Department of Homeland Security faced a backlash after using Pokémon imagery and branding to promote its controversial ICE raids in September, prompting the company to distance itself from the bizarre videos.