Shortly afterward, the official White House X account quote-retweeted that put up with the Trump-as-Master-Chief picture. Its caption, “Power to the Players,” echoed GameStop’s long-running slogan. GameStop’s inventory value reportedly jumped over 7% after the social media change. 

Gamers drag each the White House and GameStop

Several customers accused the administration of making an attempt too onerous to have interaction on-line tradition. The Halo group wasted no time roasting each GameStop and the White House, clowning on the picture’s poor particulars, such because the lacking stars on the American flag. 

“Nothing more patriotic than the official white house account posting ai slop with the U.S. flag missing 10 stars 😭😂✌🏽,” wrote @spectre0799.

@NakaiCanon stated bluntly, “Stay away from Halo, Trump.” Another participant, @mosuyanagi, took a extra private jab. “When i was 12 i bought a copy of halo 4 from your store but it didnt have disc 2, so when i went back to get a refund i was told that i couldnt get it without disc 2, which you never gave me. f**k you gamestop.”

@gurgx3 wrote, “console wars ending not because one came out on top, but because microsoft burned xbox as hard as they could is so funny to me.”

Meanwhile, @TheNCSmaster joked, “I promise he’s not gonna save your failing business big dawg.” Others targeted on the irony of the second. @ShaunBolen tweeted, “Ya know who LOVES this? The same dumbf*cks who said to ‘kEeP pOlitiCs OuT of GAming’ for the last 8 years.”

Still, the most typical response was disbelief. @hayasaka_aryan summed it up completely. “Imagine telling people in 2016 that the White House is posting Trump Halo memes with Gamestop.”

Even @USA_Polling chimed in, saying, “I can’t take how f*cking cringe this admin is anymore dude.”

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