Art Installation Featuring Trump Iran War Video Game Appears on National Mall
An anti-Trump art installation resembling an arcade cabinet appeared at the D.C. War Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., featuring a playable video game titled “Operation Epic Furious: Strait To Hell,” ARTnews reported. The anonymous artist group Secret Handshake said the work critiques what it describes as the Trump administration’s “gamification” of war messaging related to the US and Israel’s conflict with Iran, and it includes images of Donald Trump, FBI director Kash Patel, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth alongside quotations and Trump Truth Social posts. The artists also released an online version of the game and compared its approach to Cory Arcangel’s “Bomb Iraq” (2005). A plaque accompanying the installation frames the piece as a satire of militarized propaganda and video-game aesthetics.
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