The White House on Sunday sent out a bizarre X post praising President Donald Trump for ending another long-running conflict – the “Console Wars.”
The battle between Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s Xbox divisions came to a supposed end last week when Microsoft announced that its longtime exclusive Halo video game franchise is coming to the PlayStation 5 next year. Gaming retailer GameStop issued a “statement” on X declaring the “official cessation of the console wars.”
The White House Rapid Response account unexpectedly entered the console wars conversation late Sunday in a post on X: “President Trump presides over the end of the 20-year Console Wars.”
GameStop replied to the White House account’s post Sunday evening by posting an AI photo of Trump shaking hands with Master Chief, the armor-clad protagonist of the Xbox’s flagship Halo franchise.
The official White House X account later posted an AI rendering of the president saluting the American flag while wearing Master Chief’s signature armor. The post’s accompanying text read: “Power to the players.”
Trump has made repeated claims about ending eight separate, actual wars as president. The White House in August provided a list of six wars he has resolved in a statement to press, and Trump has added the Israel-Hamas war and Thailand-Cambodia conflict to his tally this month.
Independent analyses by the Associated Press, BBC and CNN have found that some of Trump’s claims are misleading.
White House credits Trump with resolving PlayStation-Xbox war in odd posts
