When I crossed the ocean just to find your grader.

Sacrifice your own boys for a lie.

Listen.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Make America great again.

When I called up Ali Breeland at the Atlantic, I wanted to talk to him about this music video, which popped up on the internet in late March.

Everyone in the video is like a Lego kind of video, like Lego Batman, except Lego geopolitics.

The video starts with a Lego Donald Trump holding dice.

He rolls the dice, and then suddenly Lego Trump is on the deck of an aircraft carrier in storm-tossed seas.

Then we see fires, wreckage on the water, and a lot of military helmets.

The video is from an account called Explosive Media that appears to be Iranian.

And the song is titled Loser.

The main chorus is L-O-S-E-R, and it sort of is calling Trump.

It's very directly calling Trump a loser, but then it's also making points about the war and like letting Iran kind of slide its propaganda in and this sort of catchy musical kind of. I would maybe compare it. The rap style is a little bit different to Hamilton, but like that's kind of like a version of like what we're getting at here. It's maybe a little bit of more like pop rap infused, but

they're making a disc track. They're like speaking to Americans in the format that we're familiar

with with Kendrick versus Drake and Drake versus Meek Mill. It's a very time-honored American

tradition. Yeah, it says like, welcome to the graveyard of your vanity. Your secrets are leaking.

There's like an Epstein Files reference.

Yeah, this is like a hip-hop disc track, I guess, which just what?

It makes sense and kind of betrays like whoever is doing this has like a pretty good understanding of America. Not that it's like some secret

that, you know, distracts are a very big part of American culture, that rap is a part of American culture.

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