{"id":676505,"date":"2026-09-07T08:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/676505\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T08:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:07:15","slug":"trump-becomes-green-lantern-in-new-white-house-video-as-hbos-lanterns-episode-4-airs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/676505\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Becomes Green Lantern In New White House Video As HBO\u2019s Lanterns Episode 4 Airs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The official White House account on X posted an AI-generated video of President Donald Trump as a Green Lantern on Sunday night, right as <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbook.news\/lanterns-episode-4-backlash\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cosmicbook.news\/lanterns-episode-4-backlash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lanterns Episode 4<\/a> rolled out on HBO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The caption is the Green Lantern Corps oath, the \u201cIn brightest day, in blackest night\u201d verse recited by ring bearers across DC comics, movies, and TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The video puts a glowing green power ring on Trump\u2019s hand and runs through a series of ring constructs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One shows a wall of green energy stretching across a desert at night, with a crowd of people stopped on the far side.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <a class=\"cbn-ir-card\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbook.news\/lanterns-episode-4-backlash\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/lanterns-episode-4-reactions-300x169.webp\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lanterns Episode 4 Backlash Erupts Over Nude Drawing Scene And Slaughterhouse Cow\" loading=\"lazy\"   fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                        Lanterns Episode 4 Backlash Erupts Over Nude Drawing Scene And Slaughterhouse Cow&#13;<br \/>\n                                            Three days after the Episode 3 writer begged fans to stick it out with John Stewart, Lanterns handed the backlash a fresh&#8230;&#13;<br \/>\n                                    &#13;<br \/>\n            <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another has Trump looking out over a glowing factory skyline under a giant \u201cAmerican Manufacturing\u201d sign. A third surrounds him with green warships, fighter jets, and helicopters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The post pulled in 47,000 likes and 8,800 replies in its first five hours. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil&#8217;s might beware my power\u2026 Green Lantern&#8217;s light! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mXWr0zeyLC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/mXWr0zeyLC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2096764958713274657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Posted Right As Lanterns Aired<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lanterns airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO, and the White House video went up in that same window Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The caption never names Lanterns, DC Studios, or Warner Bros. Discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neither DC nor the show\u2019s official accounts have acknowledged the video.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            <a class=\"cbn-ir-card\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbook.news\/hbo-max-coming-soon-spot-harry-potter-lanterns-house-of-the-dragon-2026\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hbo-spot-harry-potter-lanterns-house-dragon-1-300x169.webp\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"HBO Max Reveals New Looks At Harry Potter, Lanterns, House of the Dragon Season 3\" loading=\"lazy\"   fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                        HBO Max Reveals New Looks At Harry Potter, Lanterns, House of the Dragon Season 3&#13;<br \/>\n                                            HBO Max has released a new \u201cComing Soon\u201d spot featuring first looks at several upcoming originals, returning shows, franchise titles, and documentaries&#8230;.&#13;<br \/>\n                                    &#13;<br \/>\n            <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interestingly enough, a plot in the episode involves reciting the oath.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/trump-superman-meme-1500x844.webp\" alt=\"Trump Superman Meme\" class=\"wp-image-1014575\"   loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The White House Did This With Superman<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the second time the account has put Trump in a DC role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In July 2025, timed to the release of James Gunn\u2019s Superman, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbook.news\/superman-goes-political-trump-meme-gavin-newsom-response\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cosmicbook.news\/superman-goes-political-trump-meme-gavin-newsom-response\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White House posted a Trump Superman image<\/a> captioned \u201cTHE SYMBOL OF HOPE. TRUTH. JUSTICE. THE AMERICAN WAY.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gunn\u2019s movie skipped the classic \u201cAmerican way\u201d slogan. The White House used it anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The account has kept up the franchise imagery since, including an AI image of Trump holding a lightsaber for Star Wars Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lanterns continues Sundays on HBO and HBO Max, with the season finale set for October 4.<\/p>\n<p>Matt McGloin is the editor-in-chief and publisher of Cosmic Book News, the independent entertainment news site he founded in 2008. He covers movies, comics, TV, video games and pop culture and has reported major industry scoops over the years, including revealing the Avengers: Endgame title ahead of its official announcement. Through Cosmic Book News, he helped Marvel Comics promote Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova through exclusive previews, artwork, and interviews, with the site also quoted in solicitations and on comic covers. He also reported on Marvel\u2019s Daredevil: Born Again retooling before it was later confirmed by the trades.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official White House account on X posted an AI-generated video of President Donald Trump as a Green&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[356,18,117,111032,7948,19,17,107611,128],"class_list":["post-676505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-donald-trump","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-green-lantern","tag-hbo-max","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lanterns","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117228736872690129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}