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<\/p>\nSecret Handshake, the anonymous arts and activism group behind an ongoing series of satirical public sculptures \u2014 mostly about President Trump\u2019s alleged ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein \u2014 has channeled its black comedy into a new video game about the Iran war called \u201cOperation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe game features furious tweet battles against Iranian schoolgirls, low-flow shower heads and other threats to American freedom like DEI and the Pope. And just to save you time, the only way you can lose is by trying to hold Melania\u2019s hand. But it\u2019s the Middle East, so you also can\u2019t win either,\u201d Secret Handshake wrote in an email to The Times.<\/p>\n
The group placed three old-school arcade-style games inside the Neoclassical DC War Memorial, which is located near the Reflecting Pool in Ash Woods and resembles a domed, open-air bandstand. The pivot from sculpture to video games was necessitated by current events, said a member of the group.<\/p>\n
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A plaque beside three video games placed in the DC War Memorial by the satirical arts and activism group Secret Handshake.<\/p>\n
(Secret Handshake)<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t sit down and say, let\u2019s make a video game. The video game was the answer because that\u2019s what was happening to us. It was about watching the actions take place in Iran and some truly, truly horrible things, and how that was being spun into something cool and hip and edgy through the actual administration, through the use of video games,\u201d the man said. \u201cThey were literally cutting in \u2018Call of Duty\u2019 and \u2018Grand Theft Auto\u2019 and others as well into these hype videos for the war, almost as if it was before a concert or a wrestling match.\u201d<\/p>\n
The game, which is also available to play online,<\/a> begins with a shot of the White House. \u201cAnother big, beautiful day as the best President ever,\u201d a caption reads. The game moves into the Oval Office where Trump sits at the Resolute Desk under the words, \u201cUh-oh another one of your executive orders was halted by the courts.\u201d Players can then choose whether to order a Diet Coke or bomb Iran \u2014 if you choose to do the latter, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth enters the room and says, \u201cHey boss! Just saw on Truth Social you declared war on Iran. Hell yeah!\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cSome call it a war, I call it renovating my Middle East ballroom,\u201d Trump says. <\/p>\n \u201cMy delts are ready, let\u2019s liberate some oil,\u201d Hegseth yells.<\/p>\n FBI Director Kash Patel is featured in the satirical video game made by Secret Handshake.<\/p>\n (Secret Handshake)<\/p>\n A representative for Secret Handshake says if you choose to order six Diet Cokes something special happens. I tried. You unlock an achievement and are told your health is perfect.<\/p>\n Secret Handshake has been erecting satirical Trump sculptures on the National Mall for more than a year, making headlines in September when the park service toppled one of its pieces, titled \u201cBest Friends Forever,\u201d featuring Trump and Epstein<\/a> gleefully holding hands. The statue, bruised and battered by its fall, ultimately went back up<\/a>.<\/p>\n Secret Handshake is meticulous about getting the necessary permits to display its protest art, which is why the pieces have lately remained in their designated spots for up to a week. The \u201cOperation Epic Furious\u201d video games are scheduled to stay up for at least the next few days, the rep said.<\/p>\n The goal is to get people to think, not to mock or glorify violence in any way, the Secret Handshake rep said.<\/p>\n The video game \u201cOperation Epic Furious\u201d by Secret Handshake begins with a choice: Order a Diet Coke or bomb Iran.<\/p>\n (Secret Handshake)<\/p>\n \u201cThere is no violence in the game,\u201d the rep said. \u201cThe damage that is done is political damage and the weapons are things like gas prices and Catholic guilt.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s also important to the group to be mindful of various political viewpoints.<\/p>\n \u201cI would say that everything we\u2019ve done, we\u2019ve tried to do with respect to the other side and to not make it cruel,\u201d the rep said. \u201cAnd also we\u2019ve done it with permission.\u201d<\/p>\n Protest art, yes. But the kind that is, hopefully, built to last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Secret Handshake, the anonymous arts and activism group behind an ongoing series of satirical public sculptures \u2014 mostly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37510,37516,30179,8617,37515,34,37511,37509,37514,722,37512,37513,37508,2020,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-109023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-activism-group","9":"tag-dc-war-memorial","10":"tag-diet-coke","11":"tag-hand","12":"tag-horrible-thing","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-late-protest-art","15":"tag-new-video-game","16":"tag-operation-epic-furious","17":"tag-president-trump","18":"tag-rep","19":"tag-satirical-public-sculpture","20":"tag-secret-handshake","21":"tag-violence","22":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116557865870101916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778531778_321_.png\")
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