X White House aides have boasted about their “banger memes” getting billions of views while the Iran war widens and oil prices surge. With no end to the conflict in sight, President Donald Trump’s team has turned its focus to TikTok-style war clips, stitching real strike footage to movie scenes, sports highlights, and video-game imagery. One senior official bragged to Politico that the videos racked up more than 3 billion impressions in four days. Another described the effort in toe-curling terms : “We’re over here just grinding away on banger memes, dude,” the outlet quoted them as saying. Read more at The Daily Beast.