Stunning new White House video shocks critics — and even 'MAGA isn’t impressed': analysis

The White House released a new AI video to promote the war in Iran, depicting the people of Iran as bowling pins and President Donald Trump as the bowling ball.

Adam Boulton, a presenter at Times Radio, called the clip the "most shocking video yet," noting that "MAGA isn't impressed."

"On 28 February at least 168 people, most of them schoolgirls, were killed in an air strike at Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ primary school in Minab, Iran," he began.

At first, the administration tried to claim that it was Iran who fired the Tomahawk missiles on the school, doing a "double tap" when there were survivors.

“We think it was done by Iran, because they’re very inaccurate with their munitions,” Trump said on March 1.

Iran doesn't have Tomahawk missiles. The U.S. does.

CNN broadcast images of parts of the weapons used on Wednesday, making it very clear that the weapons that hit the school were, indeed, American

Overnight, the official White House account posted a meme video that Boulton said demonstrates "once again the puerile, callous attitude of the administration to this conflict."

"The Iranians are portrayed as angry cartoon bowling pins, marching across a desert brandishing Kalashnikovs and a placard insisting 'We won’t stop making nuclear weapons!'" he wrote in the column. An American bowling hero then throws his ball at the pins with the Lynyrd Skynyrd song "Free Bird" playing in the background. The word "Strike" flashes on the screen like a cartoon. They then cut to the bomb strikes from the U.S. on Iran.

"Just in case you couldn’t believe what you were seeing, the final slate signs off: 'THE WHITE HOUSE President Donald J. Trump,'" Boulton added.

The writer believes that Trump is growing increasingly angry that his own supporters aren't lining up to support his new war. Trump spent 2024 promoting his "America First" agenda and saying that he would end wars, not start new ones. Once entering office, he justified smaller attacks, like the intervention in Venezuela, by saying that his new "Don-roe Doctrine" is to prioritize the Western Hemisphere. Iran doesn't even fit that characterization.

"The bowling meme video, however, doubles down on the Trump administration’s macho, gung-ho approach to his war, epitomised by the boastfully self-styled 'Secretary of War' Pete Hegseth" Boulton continued. "Sure enough, bearing the brunt of Trump’s anger at those who are fleeing from him is a woman: Marjorie Taylor Greene."

New numbers show that MAGA is hemorrhaging women from the coalition it used to win in 2024.

“‘Make America Great Again’ was supposed to be America first, not Israel first, not any foreign country first, not any foreign people first,” Greene said when speaking to The Megyn Kelly Show a few weeks ago.

While Trump tries to turn the war into "flippant online thrills [...] reality is biting," Boulton writes.

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