An AI-generated LEGO movie out of Iran depicting Trump as a war hungry pedophile has gone viral online. The video is the work of Iran-based propagandists called the “Explosive News Team” and is just the latest in a long line of AI-generated LEGO videos aimed at mocking Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. LEGO-themed propaganda isn’t new and the Iranian video plays on familiar wartime propaganda themes. What’s different in 2026 is speed and scale.

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    10 days ago

    I feel like you really don’t need Lego to depict Trumpnas a war-hungry pedophile.

    That’s what the news and objective reality are for.

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      10 days ago

      Well, it’s in the news, but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything.

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        9 days ago

        Trump is the symptom, not the disease. The reason it’s in the news and not doing anything is because we have been successfully normalized to the conditions that have inevitably led to this situation.

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      They’ve made many other good points that are less obvious, but calling trump a pedophile tends to get more views, so we get an article about that.

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    9 days ago

    Slop, propaganda, or not it’s telling the truth that we already know to our face.

    We just choose to do nothing about a convicted criminal pedo being president, starting a senseless war that spiraled out of control into a global supply crisis + a corrupt ass government (all branches) sucking his teat and bending over all in the name of Pissrael

    /rant

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      10 days ago

      It’d be time consuming and expensive to turn this round with regular animation. Ironic that AI is being used by the Iran’s supporters in this way.

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    9 days ago

    They’ve made several of these, but my fave is the CGTN video with Bald Eagles versus Persian Cats.

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    “But if it doesn’t come from hollywood, it must be inferior”

    “Noo that’s just an exception, it must always be bad, my cult leaders said so”

    The means of video production is in the hands of the people now. And the people can make way better videos than “bootlick the yank troops every screen minute or you won’t get paid” hollywood.

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    10 days ago

    Nobody here is allowed to like this. Stick to your “slop” and copyright comments.

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      10 days ago

      I thought the Iranians specifically chose Legos because the US bombed a girl’s primary school. Seemed like a fitting way to fight back.

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        10 days ago

        I think they picked it because it’s popular with recruitment-age men who grew up on the Lego movies/games and Roblox. I think the point is primarily to target the source of US personnel, to discourage enlistment and reduce moral.