commentary The viral Lego-style Iran War memes are the latest case of the toy being used as a building block for political art Published April 26, 2026 1:30PM (EDT) A Lego-style AI-generated war-themed video playing on a smartphone screen in front of a photo of President Donald Trump and Secretary Of Defense Pete Hegseth (Chris DELMAS / AFP via Getty Images) Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d type: The propaganda coming out of Iran is having a moment. Since the first days of the U.S.-Israeli attack on that nation, a group calling itself Explosive Media has been releasing AI-generated memes excoriating Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the president’s closest advisers. This in itself isn’t extraordinary, especially when one of the most prolific generators of hyperbolic, incendiary digital misinformation is the White House.…