{"id":1036701,"date":"2026-06-19T12:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1036701\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:14:20","slug":"rockstar-issues-shortest-response-to-the-white-house-posting-gta-6-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1036701\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockstar Issues Shortest Response To The White House Posting GTA 6 Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udd0a Listen to this  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much like every time when they do marketing, Rockstar Games have created a cultural moment. GTA 6\u2019s anticipation is taking things to a new level though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/rockstarintel.com\/gta-6-cover-art-revealed-pre-order-date-confirmed-by-rockstar-games\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officially revealed<\/a> GTA 6\u2019s cover art and pre-order date. The cover art\u2019s reveal led to many people and brands across social media posting their own version in response to it. Many of these went going viral. Rockstar\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/rockstarintel.com\/new-gta-6-cover-art-wallpapers-logo-released\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new logo<\/a> also has had a similar effect with many in the GTA community changing their logo to look like using the same background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An attempt to continue to stay within the conversation and distract, the US government\u2019s White House social media account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2067649794705625135?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted <\/a>their own version of the GTA VI cover. It looks very AI generated and focuses on President Trump. Many on Twitter commented at how ironic this post is and that Rockstar wouldn\u2019t be exactly thrilled considering their long history against governments.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"432\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jason_and_Lucia_03_ultrawide-1024x432.jpg\" alt=\"Official character key art for Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) featuring the main protagonists, Lucia and Jason, standing close together on a beach in Vice City. Lucia wears a dark tank top with her hair tied back in a ponytail, while Jason wears a white tank top. Lucia holds a semi-automatic handgun near his chest. The background displays a tropical beach setting at sunset with a pink and orange sky, palm tree silhouettes, and the Vice City skyline across the water.\" class=\"wp-image-41586 lazy\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We actually do have a very short non-statement from Rockstar. Provided to <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/white-house-uses-gta-6-meme-to-distract-from-reflecting-pool-turning-the-color-of-mountain-dew-2000708154\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a>, a Rockstar spokesperson said \u201cNo comment\u201d. This could be interpreted in a couple of ways. In some cases when video game companies have have copyrighted work used by this administration, they\u2019ve chosen to simply not even respond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the cover image by the White House, US Department of Health &amp; Human Services Secretary Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecKennedy\/status\/2067681064915517629\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted <\/a>an edited version of the cover review video Rockstar made. It came along with the caption \u201cWe flipped the food pyramid before we got GTA 6.\u201d The cover of your ended up showing himself, Trump and a number of AI generated people dressed up as food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will be interesting to see how rockstar decides to navigate this political landscape as we close in on the game\u2019s release this November. No doubt things will get extremely heightened much closer to launch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more news on GTA VI, stay tuned to <a href=\"https:\/\/rockstarintel.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RockstarINTEL<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/rockstarintel.com\/newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sign up<\/a>\u00a0to our newsletter for a weekly round-up of all things Rockstar Games.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our newsletter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udd0a Listen to this Much like every time when they do marketing, Rockstar Games have created a cultural&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1036702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[155837,10136,60522,2405,285825,270180,12,2403,53,16,15],"class_list":["post-1036701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-grand-theft-auto-6","tag-grand-theft-auto-vi","tag-gta","tag-gta-6","tag-gta-v","tag-gta-vi","tag-news","tag-rockstar-games","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116776721914337140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1036702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}