The White House launched a series of arcade-style video games on its website, featuring President Donald Trump's agenda, including "Build the Wall" and "Trump Savings Tycoon". The games allow players to gather migrants for deportation, build a border wall, and collect cash to fill tax-advantaged investment accounts. According to Rep. Ted Lieu, the White House is focusing on these games while the national average gasoline price has risen to $4.14. Rights groups have criticized the "Arcade" for gamifying mass deportations and trivializing human suffering.
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On September 3, the White House launched an online "arcade" featuring five retro-style games that promote President Donald Trump's MAGA agenda. The games include "Build the Wall," a Tetris-like game where players stack wall sections to prevent migrants from entering; "Rio Run," a Snake-like game where players collect and deport migrants along the Rio Grande; "Supply Line," a game where players sort out school lunch items to promote healthy eating; "Flappy Bill," a game where players fly a bald eagle carrying legislation over the National Mall; and "Trump Savings Tycoon," a game where players collect cash and gold bars to fill their kids' Trump Accounts. The games are intended to contrast with what the White House calls the "dark socialist vision" of Democrats, but critics see them as a form of propaganda that perpetuates negative stereotypes about migrants and immigrants. The video games have been criticized for their depiction of migrants and border control, with some comparing them to the real-life scenes of ICE agents forcing immigrants onto deportation planes. The White House has defended the games as an effort to promote a "culture of fun and winning."**
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The White House website on Thursday launched a series of arcade-style video games promoting President Donald Trump’s agenda.
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website → launch → agenda
In “Rio Run,” a spin on the decades-old game Snake, players can gather and deport migrants along the Rio Grande.
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players → gather → Grande
“Build the Wall,” a Tetris-style game, lets players stack sections of a border wall to “protect the border from the coming horde.”
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players → build → horde
In “Trump Savings Tycoon,” players collect cash and gold bars flying through the air to “fill your kids’ Trump Accounts,” referring to the Administration’s tax-advantaged investment accounts for newborns.
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players → collect → newborns
Other games include “Supply Line,” where players sort out school lunch items to “Make America Healthy Again,” and “Flappy Bill,” where players fly a bald eagle carrying legislation over the National Mall in the style of popular mobile game Flappy Bird.
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players → include → Bird
“This is an effort to further contrast between a culture of fun and winning and the dark socialist vision Democrats have for America,” a White House official told Fox News.
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official → contrast → News
TIME has reached out to the White House for comment.
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TIME → reach → comment
The video games are the latest effort by the Trump Administration to use the Internet and pop culture to promote its policies.
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games → use → policies
Across its social media accounts, the White House has posted AI-generated content and political memes, as well as mocked its critics online.
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House → post → critics
The strategy has drawn criticism, with artists like Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo condemning the Administration’s use of their music in videos pushing its agenda.
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artists → draw → agenda
The “Arcade” has drawn backlash from rights groups, who argue it gamifies mass deportations and trivializes human suffering.
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it → draw → suffering
“They’ve been playing games with people’s lives for years, now they’ve made a video game of what they’re doing,” Amerika Garcia Grewal, co-director of the Frontera Federation in Eagle Pass, Texas, told AFP.
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Grewal → play → AFP
The Price of Happiness: Americans Feel Guilty After Spending on Things That Bring Them Joy
Rep. Ted Lieu of California questioned the White House’s focus on arcade-style games when the national average gasoline price has risen to around $4.14.
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price → feel → 4.14
“November is coming,” he wrote in a post on X, referring to the looming midterms.
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he → come → midterms
