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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump/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 dont 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 isnt recruiting. Its straight propaganda the glorifies war. Its 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/
https://www.reddit.com/r/RegalUnlimited/comments/1u7uvul/are_regals_really_showing_this_before_movies/#lightbox
hlthe2b
(115,136 posts)I would bet that they are too cowardly to voice their disagreement with having to run these.
Thunderbeast
(3,841 posts)TAKE DOWN THE PROPAGANDA!
muriel_volestrangler
(106,800 posts)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 Spielbergs 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/
AverageOldGuy
(4,344 posts)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)That video would ruin the rest of the day; not to mention the movie experience.
Joinfortmill
(21,886 posts)DET
(2,668 posts)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 Im going to blow the crap out of you. War porn indeed.
SergeStorms
(21,030 posts)I'll take your word on this.
Two of the biggest chicken-shits on earth glorifying death.
No thanks.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,777 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(15,423 posts)And Hegseth in t-shirt and shorts of course.
Its all about image OF THEM..not the troops
spanone
(142,219 posts)radical noodle
(10,735 posts)wasting money on videos promoting anything other than recruitment?
3_Limes
(605 posts)To a certain type of person, license to commit violent acts like this has a very, very strong appeal. And they seem to be Hegseth's "type".
radical noodle
(10,735 posts)with "join the fight" at the end. JMHO
KS Toronado
(24,133 posts)kacekwl
(9,299 posts)Grotesque.
oasis
(54,269 posts)and losers.
Draft dodger Trump avoided contact with Americas wounded heroes.
Hed best STFU when it comes to how he really feels about our military.