Iran's Lego Propaganda, Trump's Political Collapse, and the Hollywood Mega-Merger

Iran's propaganda arm has produced a series of Lego-animated rap videos that mock Donald Trump, his administration, and American political culture with startling precision — and they're going viral among American audiences. The videos, produced by a team of fewer than ten people with an average age of 25, take roughly 20 to 48 hours to produce and target specific flashpoints in American politics: the Epstein files, Pete Hegseth's drinking, Cash Patel's girlfriend, the Olympic hockey locker room scandal, and Trump's broken promises on the Epstein case. As Tim Dillon put it in a recent bit, "We're not even winning the shit talking war. We're getting bodied by Iranian AI in the war of shit talk."

The New Face of Iranian Propaganda

The Lego videos represent a fundamental shift in how Iran communicates with the world. Previously, Iranian propaganda was framed in heavily religious, flowery language — the hosts recalled the famous interview where former President Khatami quoted Alexis de Tocqueville at length, trying to link the American founding to the Iranian Revolution in terms so academic they landed on no one. The goal was to portray Iran as a victim. These new videos portray Iran as a victor: a tiny, mighty nation taking down a superpower.