Anti-Migrant Video Games Appear on White House Website

The White House has posted video games that portray migrants as targets and promote President Donald Trump’s border policies. In one version of the classic Snake game, players catch migrants crossing the Rio Grande.

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Can’t stop winning. Build the wall. Deport. Fund the Trump account.

A Tetris-style game asks users to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Its caption reads, “Protect the border from the approaching horde.” Another game invites players to catch bags of money to fill the “Trump account,” government investment accounts for U.S.-citizen children born between 2025 and 2028.

The White House promoted the games on X with the message, “Can’t stop winning. Build the wall. Deport. Fund the Trump account.” An attached video displays the acronym MAGA, meaning “Make America Great Again,” in a style resembling the logo of video-game maker SEGA.

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The story of the president’s numerous successes in a way that resonates with every U.S. citizen.

The Trump administration told AFP that it was emphasizing innovation and presenting “the story of the president’s numerous successes in a way that resonates with every U.S. citizen.” It contrasted that approach with what it called the Democrats’ “dark socialist vision of the United States.”

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They have been playing with people’s lives for years, and now they have turned their work into a video game.

Human rights advocates criticized the games. America Garcia Grewal of the Frontera Federation said, “They have been playing with people’s lives for years, and now they have turned their work into a video game.” She said the games’ developers had “lost touch with what it means to be human.”

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Lost touch with what it means to be human.