Trump Adds Controversial Arcade Games to White House Website

The current White House social media team has truly hit rock bottom, scraping the barrel for new ways to mock the Trump administration’s inhumane detentions and the tragic fates of those merely associated with immigrants. Enter arcade.gov, a site that serves up cheap imitations of classic micro-arcade games, but with a twist of racism and absurd propaganda. What a spectacle!

The site features a logo that would likely horrify the original brand it mimics. The trailer showcases a “MAGA” logo styled after Sega’s iconic design, though none of the games are programmed well enough to include a proper splash screen. I can’t say for sure, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the five games (with promises of more to come!) were all created with minimal effort. There’s a distinct lack of creativity on display.

Take Rio Run, for instance, a particularly terrible Snake clone where you control a character collecting an ever-growing line of immigrants. You can identify them by their non-white appearance and black hair, and once collected, they’re dressed in orange jumpsuits. It’s such a poorly executed version of Snake that it runs worse than the original on a Nokia 3310, which at least distracts from the underlying racism, but still—what a mess.

Then there’s Build the Wall, a blatant Tetris knock-off that adds the grotesque twist of having your grid invaded by arcade aliens. Get it? Illegal aliens! It’s a dehumanizing caricature for cheap laughs! But unlike Tetris, filling lines doesn’t clear them, and you still lose when the blocks reach the top. “BORDER BREACHED,” it announces, even though no aliens got through thanks to the wall. What a contradiction!

Next up is Supply Line, where you sort school lunches to “Make America Healthy Again.” You punch unhealthy items off a conveyor belt, with “unhealthy” defined as anything in colorful packaging. Posters in the background vilify perfectly fine “seed oils” while promoting “beef tallow,” showcasing how absurd this administration has become. I didn’t stick around long enough to see if you’re also meant to include raw milk and roadkill on the menu.

Then there’s Flappy Bill, a Flappy Bird clone where you control a bald eagle holding an unspecified bill—that’s literally the whole game. Finally, we have Trump Savings Tycoon, where you “fill your kids’ Trump accounts” by moving a net with your mouse to catch blobs flying across the screen. I’m not American, and while I try to keep up with Trump’s antics, I’m not entirely sure this reflects his approach to kids’ investment schemes. It wouldn’t shock me if it did, though. My ability to snag $3,999,500 in the few minutes I played before losing interest felt a bit misleading.

None of these games come with instructions, so if there was a specific goal in Racist Tetris, I have no idea what it was, and frankly, I don’t care to find out. They offer no real value as games. The closest contender might be Flappy Bill, as it shamelessly borrows the addictive nature of Flappy Bird, but even the worst Google Doodle would provide far more entertainment.

It’s all just dishearteningly bad. A half-hearted attempt at trolling from the White House’s official social media account. The most unsettling part is how normal this all seems now, just another day in a world that feels increasingly like a satire.