The White House posted another hype reel on social media, and it ends with AI-generated footage of a Persona 5 All Out Attack featuring Trump, VP JD Vance, and other administration figures. The clip appears to have been lifted directly from videos by popular Persona content creator Faz.
The montage is a chaotic mix: real Trump clips, Dragon Ball and Yu-Gi-Oh anime footage, apparent left-leaning TikTokers reacting in distress, and news headlines about job growth. It closes on a doctored version of Persona 5 party member Yusuke Kitagawa's victory screen, with a bald eagle swapped in where the original game shows a dragon. The AI slop effectively overwrites the victory pose of the game's actual artist character.
The irony is hard to overstate. Persona 5 is explicitly about a group of teenagers who use supernatural powers to take down corrupt authority figures — including a sex abuser and a corrupt politician. That's not subtext, that's the entire premise. Using it as a presidential hype tool is a textbook example of larping: performing interest in a cultural property purely for clout, with zero understanding of what it actually says.
Kotaku has reached out to Sega and Atlus for comment and will update if they respond.
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