The news that Halo is coming to PlayStation 5 next year sounds like fan fiction to anyone who grew up in the heated console wars of yesteryear. Oh, there are definitely people still fighting this made-up war and extended marketing campaign, but as console exclusivity increasingly becomes a thing of the past and systems do mostly the same things as one another, anyone with a lick of sense knows that there’s nothing to even fight about anymore. Halo, Xbox’s longest-running franchise, was one of the last big names to make the jump to PlayStation, and now that it has, people are finally catching up to the rest of us in realizing that the war is over. That includes Funko Pop store GameStop, and…the Trump Administration?
GameStop started with a mock-up of a statement declaring the console wars over. Sure, that’s the kind of thing a company makes for social media when trying to capitalize on something in the news. The store notes that now that the Halo: Campaign Evolved remake is coming to PlayStation 5, there’s nothing to fight about anymore, so you can take your Sony Ponies back to the stable and power down your Xbots.
A Statement from GameStop pic.twitter.com/GraJAT69aI
— GameStop (@gamestop) October 25, 2025
Things got weird, however, when someone over at the Trump Administration decided to join in on this. The official White House account quote-tweeted the post with an AI image of Trump saluting while dressed in Halo protagonist Master Chief’s Spartan armor and holding an Energy Sword, all in front of the White House, which notably doesn’t show where the newly demolished East Wing would be. Have AI-generation models been fed information about the president’s ongoing personal project of putting a ballroom where something else once was? Will they generate images of the White House as it stands now by default? Or did whoever put this prompt in say specifically to block the view? The bigger question is what happened to the other 10 states no longer represented on the American flag, which only has 40 stars on it?
Power to the Players https://t.co/GqNu0qdgmw pic.twitter.com/4Hw6G7i7aW
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 27, 2025
The official Rapid Response account of the Trump administration also responded to GameStop’s post with “NUMBER 9: President Trump presides over the end of the 20-year Console Wars.” GameStop, desperate to cling to any relevance it can, responded to both posts with photoshops of Trump shaking Master Chief’s hand, and one of him and Vice President J.D. Vance as Master Chief and his AI companion Cortana.
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— GameStop (@gamestop) October 27, 2025
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— GameStop (@gamestop) October 27, 2025
On one level, all of this is just groanworthy, but when you look at the replies full of photoshops and AI-generated slop of Trump and his ilk as Master Chief and other gaming heroes, it’s worse; it’s like looking into the abyss. People really view this con artist as some kind of bastion of masculinity and American heroism, and that would be funny if it weren’t also having such dire real-world consequences.
