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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(15,419 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 05:21 AM 2 hrs ago

Trump/Hegseth "war porn", self aggrandizing video showing in movie theaters to audience boos.

Everyone knows that America's military is "unmatched". here is Trump and Hegseth using the US military to pump up their own egos. of course, Hegseth will do anything to feel manly

Comments from Reddit:

Doubling back to say that I come to the movies to disassociate from the state of our country and I don’t appreciate having to be subjected to the glorification of FUCKING WAR.


Yes, it was so jarring to see it. It wasn't your normal recruitment video, it was basically war porn with Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth voicing it over. Just pure propoganda and makes the US sound like supervillains.



As some will point out Regal has always shown ads for the Army, Navy, etc.
The difference is this isn’t recruiting. It’s straight propaganda the glorifies war. It’s extremely gross and has no place in a movie theater.



It played before The Lost Boys on Saturday. Pure propaganda. It definitely riled everyone up in the theater, booing and cursing at it, me included.




https://www.reddit.com/r/RegalUnlimited/comments/1u7uvul/are_regals_really_showing_this_before_movies/

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Trump/Hegseth "war porn", self aggrandizing video showing in movie theaters to audience boos. (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd 2 hrs ago OP
So..what is the official response from theater chain management? hlthe2b 2 hrs ago #1
Sounds worthy of a boycot Thunderbeast 2 hrs ago #2
Minister calls out national theater chain for showing 'propaganda', likens it to Russia or North Korea muriel_volestrangler 1 hr ago #3
Speaking as a veteran with 28 years of service: AverageOldGuy 43 min ago #4
I'd demand my money back. progressoid 32 min ago #5
The only good thing about this is donald's voice is cracking and so is he. Joinfortmill 29 min ago #6
Disgusting DET 27 min ago #7
Not going to watch it. SergeStorms 25 min ago #8
Seconded. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E 12 min ago #9
Fuck that shit. spanone 8 min ago #10

hlthe2b

(115,129 posts)
1. So..what is the official response from theater chain management?
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 05:44 AM
2 hrs ago

I would bet that they are too cowardly to voice their disagreement with having to run these.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,793 posts)
3. Minister calls out national theater chain for showing 'propaganda', likens it to Russia or North Korea
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 06:16 AM
1 hr ago
An Oregon minister’s efforts to urge a movie theater chain to cease playing a promotional video for the U.S. Department of War before film showings is drawing attention.

The Rev. Chuck Currie, a minister in the United Church of Christ in Portland, complained in a letter to Regal Theaters that he and his family had gone to see Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” Sunday evening when the 90-second ad touting the U.S. Department of War played before the pre-film trailers.

“The audience was stunned,” he told USA TODAY, calling the video “a propaganda piece promoting Trump and the MAGA agenda.”

“It was like we were at a movie theater in Russia or North Korea,” Currie wrote in his letter, which he posted on social media. “Democracies do not do this.”

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/17/minister-theater-chain-war-department-video/90598050007/


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AverageOldGuy

(4,339 posts)
4. Speaking as a veteran with 28 years of service:
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 07:32 AM
43 min ago

Sick, sick, sick. I do not want anyone who is attracted by this video. If you join any branch of the military in hopes of hunting someone down and killing them, I don't want you -- we don't need killers -- we need good, decent troops willing to do the hard stuff whatever it is. But someone who has the killer mindset is more dangerous to his own people that he is to an enemy. It's the guys with the killer mindset who start fights in bars, who beat up women, who are trash.

progressoid

(53,519 posts)
5. I'd demand my money back.
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 07:43 AM
32 min ago

That video would ruin the rest of the day; not to mention the movie experience.

Joinfortmill

(21,883 posts)
6. The only good thing about this is donald's voice is cracking and so is he.
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 07:46 AM
29 min ago
Death is coming for him.

DET

(2,668 posts)
7. Disgusting
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 07:48 AM
27 min ago

So says the decrepit 80 year old 5 times draft dodger and the drunken Fox News weekend host. ‘Peace through strength’ = ‘Give me what I want now or I’m going to blow the crap out of you’. War porn indeed.

SergeStorms

(21,026 posts)
8. Not going to watch it.
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 07:50 AM
25 min ago

I'll take your word on this.

Two of the biggest chicken-shits on earth glorifying death.

No thanks.

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