The White House launches online 'arcade' with its own takes on Tetris and other popular games, and it's as rotten as you'd expect
The arcade currently includes games based on Tetris, Flappy Bird, and Snake, and of course a healthy dose of racism and pro-Trump propaganda.
The White House has launched an online arcade featuring racist and creatively bankrupt games, including Flappy Bill, Build the Wall: Zombie Border Siege, Rio Run, Supply Line, and Trump Savings Tycoon. Flappy Bill is an unremarkable clone of the popular game Flappy Bird, where the player flies a bald eagle down the National Mall.
Build the Wall: Zombie Border Siege is a Tetris knock-off where you protect the border from an incoming horde. Rio Run is a recreation of a border patrol along the Rio Grande, where you pick up brown-skinned people and deport them if they reach the top. Supply Line tasks you with sorting good and bad food to make America healthy again.
Lastly, Trump Savings Tycoon is about filling your kids' Trump Accounts, a retirement savings account for children. The games are criticized for their racist and lazy execution, meant to appease the president's supporters and infuriate his rivals.
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Also reported by 4 other outlets
- Tetris hits back at Trump over knockoff game, warns White House about copyright infringement mashable.com
- Tetris distances itself from controversial White House 'arcade' games nst.com.my
- Tetris says it didn’t give White House permission for ‘Build the Wall’ game scmp.com
- The White House is making arcade games racist theverge.com
