Now that Iran has won all the concessions it was seeking from the Trump administration, including a ceasefire and the ability to charge millions of dollars for every ship it allows through the Strait of Hormuz, it’s also engaging in one hell of a trolling effort aimed at so-called President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
The trolling takes the form of videos posted online by various groups aligned with Iran, the New Republic reports.
“There’s a new way to teach American history. It’s not woke. But it’s not patriotic, either. It’s not the 1619 Project or the 1776 project.”
“It’s the Iranian History of the United States, as seen in ‘One Vengeance for All,’ the most cosmological of the recent pieces of pro-Iran Lego-style agitprop. This is the series you’ve probably caught a glimpse of—the obscene, masterful, and viral AI videos that have hammered the internet since the start of Donald Trump’s ruinous war in Iran. The series, which has been labeled ‘slopaganda,’ is sometimes called “Operation Epstein Fury.”
But perhaps best of all is that the videos and online mockery of Trump and Hegseth make reference to their alleged sexual crimes.
“About two-thirds of the way in, the narrative rounds on the American people, and finds Trump’s victims among us. A blond girl in a pink dress, no older than 6, is pictured in a tropical landscape. It’s Epstein Island. The island’s enigmatic blue-striped building, which some speculate is a reference to the Israeli flag, stands behind her. This girl is also a victim of American imperialism, courtesy of the Trump-Epstein class that merged capital and executive power; private-sector monopolies with political world domination.”
More specifically, the two men are portrayed as rapists who destroy everything they touch.
“Trump is globally known for sex crimes and, like Hegseth, charges of sex crimes—and the Iranian videos depict the two men explicitly as rapists. In one video, the Lego Trump has doll-like girl figures on his bed and lap, and Hegseth is shown in military garb, repeatedly committing rape. Assaults on girls are the modus vivendi of these videos’ versions of Trump and Hegseth.”
Jamelle Bouie recently pointed out the similarities between rape and the administration’s attack on Iran.
“Forcing others to submit through the indiscriminate use of force does not really sound like war. That does sound like something else. It sounds like rape.”
In other words, it does indeed matter what sort of person we elect and/or appoint to the highest offices in the country, if only because when we are represented by disgusting pigs like Donnie and Pete, it makes the entire country look culpable in their crimes.
As the old saying goes, Character matters.
