White House launches arcade website featuring games based on ICE raids and MAHA movement
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At a glance
- The White House launched an arcade website with five games themed around Trump administration policies.
- โBuild the Wallโ portrays people crossing the border as figures in a Tetris-style game, while โRio Runโ focuses on deportation and the Rio Grande.
- Tetris said its company was not involved and warned that it takes copyright infringement seriously.
The White House has launched an online arcade featuring five games built around Trump administration policies, including immigration enforcement, the Make America Healthy Again movement and Trump savings accounts.
The Tetris-inspired โBuild the Wallโ tells players to โprotect the border from the coming hordeโ and hold the line against a โzombie border siege.โ Players stack colorful bricks while small green and orange figures, representing people trying to cross into the United States, move across the screen.
We take copyright infringement very seriously
Tetrisโs official account on X said the company had not been involved in creating the game. โWe take copyright infringement very seriously,โ it said, adding, โAt Tetris we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them.โ
At Tetris we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them.
Another game, โRio Run,โ appears to draw on the administrationโs efforts to stop unauthorized crossings of the Rio Grande along the Texas-Mexico border. Players patrol the river and โpick up every crosser in the lot.โ The score counts the figures โdeported,โ with captured characters appearing in orange, prison-inspired clothing.
The White House invited users to โBuild the wall. Deport. Fill a Trump Account.โ โSupply Lineโ asks players to sort school lunch ingredients while rejecting seed oil, coloring, additives and sealed foods. โTrump Savings Tycoonโ asks users to catch cash and diamonds to fill childrenโs Trump accounts.
Build the wall. Deport. Fill a Trump Account.
A White House official described the site to CNN as โan effort to further contrast between a culture of fun and winning and the dark socialist vision Democrats have for America.โ
an effort to further contrast between a culture of fun and winning and the dark socialist vision Democrats have for America.
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