Donald Trump's White House has launched Arcade.Gov, a site with mini-games where you catch and deport immigrants, or use Tetris blocks to build a border wall.
The site's mini-games riff on existing ideas, such as Flappy Bill, an obvious parody of Flappy Bird, which asks players to keep the bill in the air while flying through the capitol.
Rio Run, meanwhile, asks you to "patrol the line along the river, pick up every crosser." It's essentially Snake, with you playing a character wearing a business suit, who collects a chain of orange jumpsuited prisoners. At the end of the game, the number of people you have successfully deported is then shown on screen.
Build the Wall: Zombie Border Siege asks players to stack bricks and "hold the line" at a location described as the "Southern Border." It's a version of Tetris, with green aliens entering from the right-hand side who impact your Tetrominos.
Supply Line is a game where you punch offensive foodstuffs off a school lunch production line, letting through vegetables while tossing out energy drinks. And finally, Trump Savings Tycoon lets you "fill your kids' Trump Accounts" by catching memecoins and bank notes that rain down over a Washington D.C. skyline, the U.S. Capitol dominated by a large construction crane.
The site has been advertised on social media with videos parodying the console startup animations for the PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, and Nintendo GameCube, as well as the logo of Sega, here edited to spell out "Maga."
Reaction to the site has been largely as you'd expect, which is all entirely the point. While delighting those who support Trump, these games are clearly designed to simultaneously provoke a response from those who would likely see them as distasteful, at best.
