Trump/Hegseth "war porn", self aggrandizing video showing in movie theaters to audience boos.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Everyone knows that America's military is "unmatched". here is Trump and Hegseth using the US military to pump up their own egos. of course, Hegseth will do anything to feel manly

Comments from Reddit:

Doubling back to say that I come to the movies to disassociate from the state of our country and I don’t appreciate having to be subjected to the glorification of FUCKING WAR.


Yes, it was so jarring to see it. It wasn't your normal recruitment video, it was basically war porn with Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth voicing it over. Just pure propoganda and makes the US sound like supervillains.


As some will point out Regal has always shown ads for the Army, Navy, etc.
The difference is this isn’t recruiting. It’s straight propaganda the glorifies war. It’s extremely gross and has no place in a movie theater.


It played before The Lost Boys on Saturday. Pure propaganda. It definitely riled everyone up in the theater, booing and cursing at it, me included.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RegalUnlimited/comments/1u7uvul/are_regals_really_showing_this_before_movies/

https://www.reddit.com/r/RegalUnlimited/comments/1u7uvul/are_regals_really_showing_this_before_movies/#lightbox

[hlthe2b]

1. So..what is the official response from theater chain management?

I would bet that they are too cowardly to voice their disagreement with having to run these.

[Thunderbeast]

2. Sounds worthy of a boycot

TAKE DOWN THE PROPAGANDA!

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Minister calls out national theater chain for showing 'propaganda', likens it to Russia or North Korea

An Oregon minister’s efforts to urge a movie theater chain to cease playing a promotional video for the U.S. Department of War before film showings is drawing attention.

The Rev. Chuck Currie, a minister in the United Church of Christ in Portland, complained in a letter to Regal Theaters that he and his family had gone to see Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” Sunday evening when the 90-second ad touting the U.S. Department of War played before the pre-film trailers.

“The audience was stunned,” he told USA TODAY, calling the video “a propaganda piece promoting Trump and the MAGA agenda.”

“It was like we were at a movie theater in Russia or North Korea,” Currie wrote in his letter, which he posted on social media. “Democracies do not do this.”

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/17/minister-theater-chain-war-department-video/90598050007/

Post by @revchuckcurrie

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[AverageOldGuy]

4. Speaking as a veteran with 28 years of service:

Sick, sick, sick. I do not want anyone who is attracted by this video. If you join any branch of the military in hopes of hunting someone down and killing them, I don't want you -- we don't need killers -- we need good, decent troops willing to do the hard stuff whatever it is. But someone who has the killer mindset is more dangerous to his own people that he is to an enemy. It's the guys with the killer mindset who start fights in bars, who beat up women, who are trash.

[progressoid]

5. I'd demand my money back.

That video would ruin the rest of the day; not to mention the movie experience.

[Joinfortmill]

6. The only good thing about this is donald's voice is cracking and so is he.

Death is coming for him.

[DET]

7. Disgusting

So says the decrepit 80 year old 5 times draft dodger and the drunken Fox News weekend host. ‘Peace through strength’ = ‘Give me what I want now or I’m going to blow the crap out of you’. War porn indeed.

[SergeStorms]

8. Not going to watch it.

I'll take your word on this.

Two of the biggest chicken-shits on earth glorifying death.

No thanks.

[OldBaldy1701E]

9. Seconded. (n/t)

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

17. You miss his big orange head and baggy blue suit walking down a line of troops

And Hegseth in t-shirt and shorts of course.

Its all about image OF THEM..not the troops

[spanone]

10. Fuck that shit.

[radical noodle]

11. Why is the Defense Department

wasting money on videos promoting anything other than recruitment?

[3_Limes]

14. Pretty sure this IS recruitment to their way of thinking.

To a certain type of person, license to commit violent acts like this has a very, very strong appeal. And they seem to be Hegseth's "type".

[radical noodle]

15. It's really just war hype

with "join the fight" at the end. JMHO

[KS Toronado]

12. I would have been the loudest BOOER !

[kacekwl]

13. How

Grotesque.

[oasis]

16. "What's in it for them?" Trump asked. "Suckers

and losers.”
Draft dodger Trump avoided contact with America’s wounded heroes.
He’d best STFU when it comes to how he really feels about our military.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

18. Just got back from seeing "Disclosure Day"

Loved the movie!!! Hated the propaganda. Found this article interesting. Sadly we saw it in Newport Beach where no booing was heard. Happily we missed most of it. Disgusting.

A liberal Portland activist who says his leisurely outing to the movies Sunday took an Orwellian turn when a new “Department of War” video promoting President Donald Trump’s hyper-macho foreign policy interrupted the trailers is fighting back against what he called the government’s “propaganda” — and drawing support on social media.

The Rev. Chuck Currie shared his experience on Facebook, Instagram and Threads after going to Portland’s Regal Lloyd Center to watch Steven Spielberg’s summer blockbuster “Disclosure Day.” That’s when a 90-second advertisement for Trump’s “Department of War” flashed onto the movie screen, prompting loud boos from the Portland audience, Currie said.

The video, which debuted Sunday during Trump’s UFC fights at the White House, touts the U.S.’s military prowess and “warrior ethos.” It features images of military action playing over clips of Trump’s speeches accompanied by cinematic music.

Oddly, Disclosure Day opens on a UFC fight!!