White House puts Trump-style classic video games on website ahead of midterms

The White House has released a collection of arcade-style video games that promote aspects of President Donald Trump's agenda. The games, available on the White House website, include "Rio Run", an updated version of the game Snake, where a digital version of US border czar Tom Homan chases migrants with different skin colours next to the Rio Grande river on the Mexican border, according to the South China Morning Post and New Straits Times.

Another game, "Build the Wall", is based on the block-stacking game Tetris, with instructions to "protect the border from the coming horde". A third game involves collecting nets to put in so-called "Trump accounts" - investment accounts containing a $1,000 deposit for children born in 2025 through 2028, as reported by the South China Morning Post and New Straits Times.

The release of the games has sparked outrage from rights groups, and comes as the Trump administration steps up its mass arrest and deportation programme for undocumented migrants. The White House said in a statement that the games aim to "innovate and tell the story of the President's many accomplishments in a way that resonates with every American".

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