I'm Jake Tapper. Welcome to the lead. Let's turn now to our world lead as we near the end of the first full week of the U.S. Israeli War against Iran, a war that has already seen the deaths of six U.S. service members, 10 Israeli civilians, and at least 1,200 Iranians, including dozens of grade school girls. We're going to have more on that shortly. Rather than entirely

focusedly treating this war and the resulting casualties and the mounting economic costs

from it with the seriousness that a war deserves, rather than acknowledging that those factors

make the decision to go to war,

the most consequential decision that any president can make.

Well, the last day or so, the White House has been in at least one way treating going to war

like a game, frivolously, releasing what we will charitably call hype videos about

their war.

Here's the latest video from the White House released just a few hours ago.

Oh shit.

Here we go again.

Are you not amused?

That's one of the Grand Theft Auto video game spliced in between footage of U.S. strikes.

In a video posted on Wednesday, the White House used a clip from Call of Dube. video game spliced in between footages of U.S. strikes.

In a video posted on Wednesday,

the White House used a clip from Call of Duty video game, along

with more bombing footage.

Go! White House Communications Director Stephen Chung responded to the criticism over this bonkers video writing on X or Twitter quote, W's in the chat, boys.

For those of you unfamiliar, that's gamer slang

for celebrating a win, a W.

Now, the White House followed that up last night

with the video putting together clips from Hollywood movies

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