The White House official website has launched a portal of politically-themed games in which players can detain and shut out migrants.
A series of five games have been uploaded onto a new ‘arcade’ in the Trump administration’s latest chilling method to trivialise and popularise the president’s political priorities.
Players can keep immigrants out in Build the Wall – a knockoff version of the game Tetris in which the objective is sort falling pieces into a pile.
The new Trump version features green and orange alien-like characters which approach the grid in a ‘zombie border siege’, renamed the ‘Southern Border’, in a bid to penetrate it.
In Rio Run, gamers are tasked with ‘arresting’ migrants in a snake-style game in which asylum seekers attempting to cross at Rio Grande must be stopped from escaping.
When a player catches a migrant, they follow them around in an orange jumpsuit in a growing line.
Another bizarre game, entitled Supply Line, involves players sorting between healthy and unhealthy school lunches on a continuous conveyor belt, to ‘make America healthy again’.
There’s also a mini-game entitled Flappy Bill in which players attempt to fly a bald eagle down the National Mall while avoiding obstacles.
Launching the games on X, the official White House account carried the message: ‘Can’t stop playing. Build the wall. Deport. Fill a Trump Account.’
A video promoting the arcade used a Maga logo made to resemble the blue emblem of Japanese game software giant Sega, even stealing the brand’s signature jingle.
A White House official told CNN the arcade was about contrasting the ‘culture of fun and winning and the dark socialist vision Democrats have for America’.
The move is just the latest in a bizarre string of PR pushes by the Trump administration to promote its policies and aims.
Earlier this year, the White House website launched an ‘aliens’ portal for citizens to report ‘sightings’ – or people they suspect to be illegal migrants.
The webpage was headlined by a message in large green font warning that aliens have been ‘walking among us, living in our neighborhoods, and interacting with us in our daily lives’.
Users are told to not be ‘alarmed’ if they witness an ‘alien abduction’, or otherwise an arrest by ICE officers.
It also contains an updated register of all ICE arrests, plotted on a map of the US.
Metro has contacted Sega for comment.
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