{
  "id": 6927433,
  "title": "<em>Mario-a-Lago Kart</em>, Anyone?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/em-mario-a-lago-kart-em-anyone",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-12T13:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Atlantic",
    "slug": "the-atlantic",
    "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/09/white-house-arcade-games-parody/688602/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The White House has removed a game called Build the Wall from its arcade website after receiving a warning from the Tetris Company about copyright infringement. The White House is now considering several alternatives to replace the removed game. Super PAC-Man is one option, where players control a round creature with a constantly moving mouth through a maze, consuming coins and financial ghosts. Another option is Words With Enemies, a multiplayer game where players form hateful insults using letters from public-school textbooks and museum displays. Mario-a-Lago Kart is another possibility, where up to four players race golf carts around a cartoonish beach club, collecting power-ups and collecting state secrets as they go. Grand Theft Crypto is a game where players market their own cryptocurrency and attempt to cash out at the right moment to crash the currency and steal other players' life savings. The Oregon Data Center game simulates the experience of being displaced from one's hometown due to a data center construction project, with players trying to survive the journey to protected parkland. Goldeneye is a first-person interior-design game where players decorate their virtual home office, gilding every available space. Minecraft is a game where players design their own pickaxes and mine bituminous coal in a 1,500-foot underground shaft. Super Smash the Kennedy Center is a game where players battle conservationists and historians atop a memorial building, destroying it in the process. Candy Crush the American Dream is a game where players rearrange once-safe foods into matching groups to make them disappear due to an FDA recall. Finally, President Evil is a game where a zombie occupies the most powerful office in the world, with the final level allowing players to take over the presidency.",
  "summary": "The White House made a bunch of parody video games. We have more suggestions.",
  "key_points": [
    "White House removes Build the Wall game due to copyright infringement",
    "Considers alternatives: Super PAC-MAN, Words With Enemies, Mario-a-Lago Kart",
    "Mario-a-Lago Kart involves racing golf carts, collecting power-ups and state secrets"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}